Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person

Re:Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person by shimon_e on Thursday July 27, 2017 @09:58AM (#14865280)

Somewhere there is a community of retailers that hates Amazon as much as Slashdotters hated Microsoft.

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Re:Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person by rralian on Thursday July 27, 2017 @10:09AM (#14865394)

I think that's a community of ex-retailers.

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Re:Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person by giarc on Thursday July 27, 2017 @10:28AM (#14865600)

I think their last name is Walton.

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Re:Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person by Turing_Machine on Thursday July 27, 2017 @01:32PM (#14867522)

And yet Walmart is still much larger than Amazon. In 2015, Walmart had sales of about $508 billion, while Amazon only had $83 billion. AMZ barely cracked the top ten:

https://nrf.com/2015/top100-table

The difference, of course, is that Bezos controls a much larger portion of AMZ than the Waltons control of WMT.

None of them are anywhere near John D. Rockefeller, who had an inflation-adjusted net worth of $392 billion, equivalent to 1.5-2% of the entire U.S. economy at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller

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