Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder, clinched the world’s wealthiest title again with a $200 billion fortune on March 5, 2024, overtaking Elon Musk. Musk, known for SpaceX, Tesla, and X, now holds the second place with $198 billion. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, this year, Bezos’s wealth surged by $23 billion, while Musk’s dropped by […]
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