青島希尼爾翻譯公司（www.myfavoritepainters.net）整理發(fā)布2017-07-31

希尼爾翻譯公司（www.myfavoritepainters.net）2017年7月31日了解到：Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has overtaken Bill Gates and is now the richest person in the world, with a fortune topping $90 billion for the first time ever.

近日亞馬遜總裁杰夫.貝佐斯超越比爾.蓋茨成為了新世界首富，而他的個人資產(chǎn)也第一次超過了900億美元。

When markets opened on Thursday, Bezos had a net worth of $90.6 billion, putting him $500 million ahead of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Amazon stock opened up 1.6% on Thursday, adding $1.4 billion to Bezos’ net worth. That was enough to put him ahead of Gates, who was last surpassed on Forbes’ real-time rankings for just two days nearly a year ago by Spanish retail giant Amancio Ortega.

周四股市開盤時，貝佐斯的凈資產(chǎn)已經(jīng)達到906億美元，這就使得他的資產(chǎn)比微軟創(chuàng)始人比爾.蓋茨還要多5億美元。周四時亞馬遜的股價上漲了1.6%，這又給他增加了14億美元的凈資產(chǎn)。這已經(jīng)足以讓貝佐斯超越蓋茨成為新世界首富。而蓋茨上一次丟掉首富寶座還是在一年前，當(dāng)時Zara總裁阿曼西奧.奧特加個人資產(chǎn)超過了蓋茨成為世界首富，但是僅僅只維持了2天。

Forbes started tracking billionaires around the globe in 1987. Bezos is now the seventh person to hold the title of the world’s richest person and the third American to top the global ranks besides Gates and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett.

從1987年起，《福布斯》就開始追蹤全球億萬富翁們的資產(chǎn)狀況。貝佐斯現(xiàn)在是第七個成為世界首富的人，也是除了比爾蓋茨和巴菲特以外第三個擁有這個頭銜的美國人。

While Buffett appeared on Forbes’ first ranking of America’s 400 Richest people in 1982 and Gates joined four years later, Bezos is a newer addition to Forbes’ wealth rankings. He first appeared on the Forbes 400 in 1998, a year after Amazon went public, with a $1.6 billion fortune. Bezos ranked third richest in the world on Forbes 2017 list of the World’s Billionaires, published in March, with a fortune of $72.8 billion.

當(dāng)1982年巴菲特第一次出現(xiàn)在《福布斯》美國最富有400人名單上、以及四年后蓋茨也進入該名單的時候，貝佐斯還只是《福布斯》財富排行榜上的一個小人物。1998年亞馬遜上市一年之后，貝佐斯第一次出現(xiàn)在了美國最富有400人榜單之上，當(dāng)時他的資產(chǎn)為16億美元。而在《福布斯》今年三月發(fā)布的《2017世界富豪榜》上，貝佐斯以728億美元的資產(chǎn)排在第三位。

Bezos would be nowhere close to being the world’s wealthiest person had Gates not given so much of his fortune to philanthropy. Gates, who created the Giving Pledge with Buffett to encourage billionaires to give at least half of their wealth to charitable causes, had given away $31.1 billion over the course of his lifetime through end of 2016. Forbes estimates that Bezos, who has not signed the pledge, had given approximately $100 million to charity through the end of 2015. In June, Bezos tweeted out a request for ideas for his philanthropy, garnering thousands of responses.

但是如果蓋茨沒有將自己如此多的財富捐贈給慈善事業(yè)的話，貝佐斯可能沒有機會成為世界首富。蓋茨和巴菲特一起創(chuàng)立了“捐款誓言（Giving Pledge）”，鼓勵億萬富翁們將他們至少一半的財富捐贈給慈善事業(yè)，而截至2016年底蓋茨一生已經(jīng)在這項事業(yè)中捐贈出了311億美元。而據(jù)《福布斯》估計，沒有簽署該誓言的貝佐斯，截止2015年底向慈善機構(gòu)捐贈了大約1億美元。今年6月，貝佐斯在推特上征集怎么樣做慈善的點子，獲得了上萬條回復(fù)。

Bezos attended Princeton and then worked at a hedge fund before starting his online bookseller in a garage in Seattle in 1994. Amazon has since grown into an online retail behemoth selling a wide range of products. It also offers cloud services through its Amazon Web Services division, known as AWS. Outside of his day job, Jeff Bezos owns aerospace company Blue Origin and the Washington Post.

貝佐斯畢業(yè)于普林斯頓大學(xué)，隨后在一家對沖基金工作，1994年在西雅圖一間車庫里他開創(chuàng)了自己的網(wǎng)上書店。自此之后亞馬遜逐漸成長為一個網(wǎng)絡(luò)銷售巨頭，銷售產(chǎn)品非常廣泛。該公司還通過自己的網(wǎng)絡(luò)服務(wù)部門提供云服務(wù)。除開自己的老本行以外，貝佐斯還擁有航空公司Blue Origin和《華盛頓郵報》。

Gates’ fortune is built on software firm Microsoft, which he founded in 1975 with his friend Paul Allen. Gates has sold off much of his Microsoft stake but still owns about 2% of the company’s shares, worth about $12.4 billion -- just under 14% of his fortune. His investment firm Cascade Investments has ploughed Gates’ money into a wide variety of assets, including public stocks, real estate, private equity and venture capital. Gates owns stakes in companies as diverse as Canadian National Railway, hygiene technologies firm Ecolab and Mexican Coke bottler Femsa.

蓋茨的財富是建立在軟件公司微軟之上的，1975年他和好友保羅.艾倫一起成立了微軟。雖然賣掉了大部分股份，但是目前蓋茨仍然持有微軟2%的股份，價值約為124億美元——不到他總資產(chǎn)的14%。他的投資公司Cascade將蓋茨的錢投入到了各種各樣的資產(chǎn)中，包括股票、房地產(chǎn)、私人股本和風(fēng)投資本等等。蓋茨擁有許多不同公司的股票，例如加拿大國家鐵路公司、衛(wèi)生技術(shù)公司藝康、以及墨西哥可樂瓶制造公司Femsa等等。

來源:福布斯新聞