why does Jeff Bezos of Amazon become the richest man in the world?
The so-called richest man in the world means that he can rank first in the world in terms of personal legal assets, and this ranking is published regularly by Forbes magazine. In many people's impressions, the world's richest man is Bill Gates, a computer genius who has been the richest man in the world for 13 consecutive years. After being repulsed by the Mexican rich in 21, he regained the throne of the world's richest man in 214, with a personal wealth of 76 billion US dollars, and donated half of it to the Gates Foundation, which is currently the largest charitable foundation in the world. Until 218, Bill Gates' title as the world's richest man was once again broken. This rich man is Jeff Bezos of Amazon, whose worth exceeds 9 billion dollars with 112 billion dollars. So why can Amazon make Jeff Bezos the world's richest man?
In fact, most of Jeff Bezos's wealth comes from the 78.9 million Amazon shares he holds, which is easy to understand. When the number of shares he holds is more, a little stock price fluctuation will have a huge effect. For example, on January 8, 218, Amazon's stock price rose by 1.4%, and its wealth also increased by about $1.4 billion. By the end of 218, the total * * * rose.
Speaking of it, everyone will find it hard to believe that Amazon was founded in 1995. Until 215, the company was in a state of loss, with an annual net financial loss of about $2 million. Until 216, when the situation miraculously reversed, Amazon achieved its first profit. Although Amazon has been losing money for 2 years, its market value has increased year by year, so the industry.
Amazon's self-operated business, including the third-party POP business, is profitable, but Amazon uses all the profits for investment, a large part of which is used for self-built supply chain and research and development. In 217, Amazon's R&D investment was as high as 22.6 billion US dollars, far exceeding Internet giants such as Apple and Google, ranking first. In addition, Jeff Bezos has the best financial management ability among the CEOs of global enterprises. In these 2 years of continuous losses, Amazon can always ensure that the losses are within $2 million after the annual financial liquidation, which is acceptable to investors.
In addition, the high annual R&D investment has now brought profits to Amazon, such as AWS cloud services. At present, Amazon's computing power ranks first in the world, and Microsoft, which ranks second, is far behind, including Alibaba Cloud Computing, which is only ranked fourth. In the global public cloud market, Amazon AWS alone accounts for 4%, which is no exaggeration. Amazon's cloud computing capability surpasses that of Microsoft, Google and Alibaba Cloud combined. At present, the demand for cloud computing in the world is still exploding, so Amazon is more convincing in the future market with its existing advantages, which is why investors are optimistic about Amazon and support its market value of over 8 billion US dollars.
When Alibaba first went public, its market value was twice that of Amazon, but now Amazon's market value is 3 billion dollars higher than Alibaba's. But globally, only Alibaba can surpass Amazon. The business models of the two companies are also obviously different. Amazon's e-commerce business is mainly self-operated, and only a small part of it is a third party. Ali provides a trading platform, so that participants can have the opportunity to make money. Whose prospects are there? In terms of cloud computing business, Ali also caught up later, but the momentum is very fierce, and the word-of-mouth and business volume are also increasing substantially. We will wait and see in the future profitability.