Microsoft co-founder Gates, with a fortune valued at $100 billion, and Amazon CEO Bezos, now worth $145.6 billion, are the only two people in the world who are centibillionaires, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
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Read about online retailer Amazon.com and founder Jeff Bezos. Topics include Amazon Prime and Amazon Fresh; Amazon Original /Amazon Studios streaming TV; Amazon Web Services; its South Lake Union headquarters and other Seattle offices; Kindle readers, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Echo and Alexa; its e-commerce competitors; and Bezos’ Washington Post ownership and Blue Origin space venture.
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