In 2025, as market chaos wiped billions off net worths, Warren Buffett calmly added $13 billion to his wealth. While tech billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg watched their portfolios shrink, Buffett sat back—likely sipping a Cherry Coke—and watched his cash pile do all the work. But how? What did he do … Read more
File picture of Amazon CEO and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos | Photo Credit: AP Billionaire Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos on Monday (October 28, 2024) defended the newspaper’s decision not to endorse a U.S. presidential candidate as “right” and “principled” and pushed back against any notion that he ordered it up to protect his … Read more
Larry Ellison, Chairman of Oracle, has overtaken Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to become the second-richest person in the world. Tesla CEO Elon Musk continues to lead the list with a net worth of $251 billion. Ellison’s net worth is now approximately $206 billion, according to Forbes’ real-time billionaires list. Bezos, who has fluctuated between the … Read more
VAN HORN, Texas: America’s first Black astronaut candidate finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos‘ rocket company on Sunday. Ed Dwight was an Air Force pilot when President John F. Kennedy championed him as a candidate for NASA‘s early astronaut corps. But he wasn’t picked for the 1963 class. Dwight, now … Read more
Jeff Bezos didn’t wait long to start cashing in on Amazon.com Inc.’s rally to start the year. Less than two weeks after disclosing a plan to dispose of as many as 50 million shares of the company he founded, Bezos has offloaded 24 million shares, worth more than $4 billion. The sales, revealed in regulatory … Read more
Jeff Bezos unloaded 12 million shares of Amazon.com Inc. this week, the first time the billionaire has sold the company’s stock since 2021. The sales took place on Wednesday and Thursday and netted just over $2 billion, according to a filing. Amazon disclosed on February 2 that Bezos plans to sell as many as 50 … Read more
Elon Musk’s net worth surged by nearly $94 billion in a year, while Gautam Adani, who was the world’s third richest person last year, saw his net worth fall by almost $35 billion in 2023 due to the fallout of the Hindenburg report. The Al-driven rally in tech stocks helped Mark Zuckerberg re-enter the top … Read more
US billionaire Jeff Bezos lost most wealth in dollar terms over the last year, according to the 2023 M3M Hurun Global Rich List released on Wednesday. The founder of e-commerce marketplace Amazon lost $70 billion in personal wealth, which is greater than the combined loss suffered by Indian billionaires Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani, a … Read more
New Delhi: US-based brain interface startup, Synchron, backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, is working on technology designed to transform daily life for people with paralysis. Synchron is part of an emerging crop of companies testing technology in the brain-computer interface industry, reports CNBC. The Synchron Switch is implanted through … Read more
CNN — For four years, Lauren Sánchez has been quietly working behind the scenes to help Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, strategically give away his vast wealth to a variety of causes. In their first sit-down interview as a couple at their sprawling Washington, D.C. home, Sánchez got candid about her philanthropic projects, space travel and … Read more