What do you get the richest person in the world?How about a perch as Time's Person of the Year. The magazine has conferred that honor on Tesla founder Elon Musk, citing his work revolutionizing the electric car industry, as well as the fact that his company SpaceX's won an exclusive NASA contract to put astronauts on the moon. Musk, as the magazine notes, also had a well-received hosting turn on SNL. It wasn't all encomiums. The magazine also brought up...
Amazon Corporation
Jeff
Bezos
Executive Chairman
Bezos earned voluminous press and more than a little social media scorn when he took a seat alongside his brother Mark and two others aboard the inaugural crewed flight of his aerospace company, Blue Origin, in July 2021. The 15-minute suborbital space mission cost $5.5 billion, but that’s small change for Bezos, who after splitting his assets with ex-wife Mackenzie Scott in 2019 is still the world’s richest person, with an estimated net worth hovering around $200 billion, thanks to the continued dominance of Amazon, the online retailer he founded in 1994. He stepped down as CEO of Amazon weeks before the flight but remains executive chair of the company, which expanded its show business footprint via a $8.45 billion purchase of MGM in May 2021.