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alnitak
on March 29, 2017
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Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Perso...
How is Bezos making money? Amazon doesn't seem to generate enough dividends to reach this amount of wealth, or does it?
erikig
on March 29, 2017
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Bezos owns about 83M[1] shares of Amazon which are currently $875.
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https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-Amazon-does-Jeff-Be...
eloisant
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It's only by choice that Amazon doesn't generate dividends.
cryptica
on March 29, 2017
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That's speculation. Maybe the low prices are the real reason why Amazon is doing so well.
adenadel
on March 29, 2017
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The reason Amazon doesn't issue dividends is not because their prices/margins are too low. It's because they are constantly reinvesting in the business.
Scuds
on March 29, 2017
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AWS is their real cash cow, but it gets stupid amounts of R&D funds put back into it. Azure is right behind them.
bpicolo
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It's primarily Amazon stock going up in price. Started year at 750, 874 now.
alnitak
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aha makes sense. So basically the worth of his shares went dramatically up.
parallel
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It's not cash, it's equity.
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