Jeff Bezos lost $15billion from his wealth in a single day after a massive stock slump saw the world’s 500 richest people including Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk lost $134billion overall.
Shares of Amazon.com Inc went down by 8.8 per cent on Friday as part of a wider sell-off in the market, according to Bloomberg. This dropped Bezos’ net worth to $191.5billion, because his wealth being wrapped up in his company.
Bezos has been repeatedly offloading Amazon shares this year, selling $8.5billion in stocks in February and announcing plans to sell another $5billion worth of shares, which would still leave him with 912 million shares, or 8.8 per cent of the stock.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 index fell by 2.4 per cent, which also impacted billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk included in the list of the world’s 500 richest people.
Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms Inc shares fell by 1.9 per cent, causing him to lose more than $3billion in value, while Musk’s net worth of $252billion also dropped by $6.6billion as his Tesla shares plunged by 4.2 per cent.
杰夫·贝索斯在一天之内就损失了 150 亿美元的财富，此前股市暴跌导致包括马克·扎克伯格和埃隆·马斯克在内的全球 500 位富豪的财富总计蒸发 1340 亿美元。
据彭博社报道，亚马逊公司股价周五下跌 8.8%，成为市场大范围抛售的一部分。由于贝索斯的财富都集中在公司身上，他的净资产降至 1915 亿美元。
今年，贝索斯多次抛售亚马逊股票，2 月份抛售了 85 亿美元股票，并宣布计划再抛售价值 50 亿美元的股票，这样他仍持有 9.12 亿股，占该公司股票的 8.8%。
科技股占比较高的纳斯达克 100 指数下跌了 2.4%，这也影响到了马克·扎克伯格和埃隆·马斯克等跻身全球 500 富豪榜的亿万富翁。扎克伯格的 Meta Platforms Inc 股价下跌 1.9%，导致他的价值损失超过 30 亿美元，而马斯克 2520 亿美元的净资产也因他的特斯拉股价暴跌 4.2% 而缩水了 66 亿美元。
