On August 18, Amazon was the best-performing stock in the U.S. S&P 500 Index, rising 4.09% as of the close, closing at $3,312.49 per share, with a market value of $1.66 trillion. This increased Bezos' wealth by $7.2 billion, which owns 11.1% of Amazon shares. The S&P 500 index at the close of the day had already exceeded the peak in February 2020 before the new crown epidemic swept the United States. According to a report from Forbes that day, Amazon's stock has continued to rise in recent months, and the gap between Bezos's net worth and the world's second richest man, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, has widened to $83.8 billion. The fifth richest man, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has a similar net worth.

Tesla’s stock rose 11% on August 17 and continued to rise 2.8% on August 18. Musk’s current net worth is US$85.6 billion. It is worth noting that Bezos has sold some of his shares in 2020. In February, he sold $1.7 billion worth of Amazon stock, and in early August, he sold another $3.1 billion worth of stock. His ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott, received a quarter of Bezos' Amazon stock when she divorced him in 2019, so MacKenzie's net worth also increased that day.

As Bezos’s life experience was exposed, he didn’t expect that he who became the world’s richest man would have such a past! It is understood that he was raised by his stepfather Miguel Bezos. He lost contact with his biological father when he was born and was raised by his stepfather. His biological father was a circus performer who was the best unicyclist in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the 1960s. His stepfather is a Cuban immigrant. He came to a foreign country alone at the age of 16 and gradually took root in the United States. In his eyes, his stepfather is brave and determined, and he admires his stepfather very much. Now that he has achieved such an achievement, the person he is most grateful to must be his stepfather! It is reported that his stepfather spent a lot of energy on his training. Of course, Bezos himself also worked very hard. He was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1964. In 1986, he graduated from Princeton University and entered FITEL, a high-tech development company in New York, mainly engaged in computer system development.