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