{"id":28917,"date":"2017-07-27T09:29:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T13:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/?p=28917"},"modified":"2017-07-27T14:50:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T18:50:45","slug":"amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-overtakes-bill-gates-as-the-worlds-richest-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/?p=28917","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Overtakes Bill Gates as the World&#8217;s Richest Person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It was only a matter of time&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/katevinton\/2017\/07\/27\/jeff-bezos-overtakes-bill-gates-to-become-worlds-richest-man\/#26b685da791c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\">via Forbes<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has overtaken Bill Gates and\u00a0is now the richest person in the world, with a fortune topping $90 billion for the first time ever.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">When markets opened on Thursday, Bezos had\u00a0a net worth of $90.6 billion, putting him $500 million ahead of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Amazon stock opened up 1.6% on Thursday, adding $1.4 billion to Bezos\u2019 net worth. That was enough to put him ahead of Gates, who was last surpassed on Forbes\u2019 real-time rankings for just two days nearly a year ago by Spanish retail giant Amancio Ortega.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Amazon&#8217;s market value surpassed $500 Billion for the first time ever earlier this week. Back in June, Bezos&#8217; showed off his power and wealth\u00a0by <a href=\"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/?p=25876\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\">purchasing Whole Foods for a record\u00a0$13.7 Billion<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>It was only a matter of time&#8230;via Forbes Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has overtaken Bill Gates and\u00a0is now the richest <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/?p=28917\" title=\"Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Overtakes Bill Gates as the World&#8217;s Richest Person\">&#8230;.. Get This Deal<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tjb-blog"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28921,"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28917\/revisions\/28921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}