"Clouds" helped the head of Amazon to fly up to fourth place in the list of the richest people in the world

Last year, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos won the first place in the Harvard Business Review executive rankings. On October 13, Megamind reported that this year Bezos had left the leadership position, having gone to 87th place immediately. First place is now occupied by the head of the Novo pharmaceutical company from Denmark, Lars Sorensen. Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers and Inditex head Pablo Isla occupy the second and third places.

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However, Jeff Bezos is not yet destined to be an outsider: the rapid growth of Amazon quotes allowed the head of the company to take fourth place in the list of the richest people on the planet. The founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, remains in the first position. His fortune is estimated at $ 83.1 billion. It is followed by Spanish businessman Amancio Ortega (Amancio Ortega), the founder of clothing retailer Zara , and also the investor Warren Buffett with financial indicators of $ 72.7 and $ 62 billion, respectively.
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Such a favor to Jeff Bezos was shown by the billionaire index of the Bloomberg agency - Bloomberg Billionaires Index . It is updated daily on the basis of an assessment of assets owned by entrepreneurs.

According to Bloomberg estimates , the status of the founder and CEO of Amazon has increased to $ 56.7 billion due to an increase in the value of the Internet company's securities by $ 4.19. Since the beginning of the year, Amazon’s quotes jumped 113%, largely due to the company's cloud business.

In the third quarter of 2015, revenue of the division of Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) was $ 2.09 billion, which is 15% and 78% more than quarterly and a year ago, respectively. In addition, the Amazon cloud business has become five times more profitable. AWS promotes many different cloud services: file hosting, renting virtual servers, providing computing power, and others.

Over the past year, Amazon’s cloud business has increased to $ 7 billion, making AWS the largest player in this market. It is expected that by 2020 it will grow to $ 50 billion. Oracle competitors and Salesforce.com predict sales of cloud solutions at $ 5 billion each in 2015.

Due to high AWS, Jeff Bezos’s condition in 2015 increased by 103.5%. This is the biggest increase among all 400 participants in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Jeff Bezos was richer than the Mexican telecommunications magnate Carlos Slim (Carlos Slim), whose fortune this year has decreased by $ 15.4 billion - to $ 56.6 billion. In May 2013, Slim was the richest man on the planet according to Bloomberg, and now he is in fifth place.