Getting a fortune of 13.2 billion dollars (11.910 million euros) is virtually impossible. Getting a fortune of $ 13.2 billion in a day is science fiction. Even more so when that increase is concentrated in a quarter of an hour , in which the wealth of the person in question goes up by 8,000 million dollars (7.2220 million euros).

That is impossible, right?

Well, no. That happened on Thursday. Throughout the day, the wealth of the founder, president, CEO and largest shareholder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, rose by that amount. From nine in the morning to four in the afternoon, during the hiring hours of the New York Stock Exchange, he did so at more than 4,000 million dollars. And then, at the close of the market, Amazon presented the first quarter results. In a quarter of an hour, Bezos was another 9,000 million dollars richer. Keep in mind that Bezos, son and grandson of Spaniards, has about 12% of the company . Since Amazon shares rose 11%, a simple arithmetic operation is enough to see what the owner and architect of the company's success won. In total, Bezos won on Thursday almost as much as the entire Santander Bank in the 365 days of 2019. Its forutna toral now stands at around 130,000 million dollars (117,000 million euros). And Amazon's stock market value exceeds one billion dollars, that is, 900,000 million euros.

With those 13,200 million, Bezos could buy 52 times the newspaper 'Washington Post', which he acquired in 2013 for 250 million dollars, and he would still have money left over. A nuclear carrier of the class 'Henry Ford' could also be built, which is the new model that the US Navy is launching. Or take control of almost a third of the shares of General Motors, the third largest car manufacturer in the world.

Of course, Bezos was not the only beneficiary. His ex-wife, MacKenzie, has 4% of the company. That means approximately a profit of 4,100 million dollars (3,610 million euros). To be a writer who has only published two novels to date, it's not bad at all. Obviously, the idea of ​​Parisian or New York bohemian, of going hungry and chasing publishers with manuscripts, does not go with MacKenzie, unless she harasses publishers from the helicopter.

Obviously, these are earnings on paper, not cash. And there the fortunes rise and fall by themselves. In October, when Amazon reported worse than expected results, Bezos lost 7,000 million dollars (6,320 million euros) in one day . On August 5, when there was a correction in the world stock exchanges, Bezos suffered losses of 3,400 million dollars (3,068 million euros). In fact, if Bezos suddenly sold his shares in Amazon, their value would plummet, and he himself would end up being less rich (apart from the fact that the company would probably fail). It can be said that the entrepreneur is a prisoner of his own wealth. Of all possible prisons, that is undoubtedly one of the most enviable.

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