Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nMacKenzie’s 19.7 million shares in Amazon are worth $36.8\nbillion, which according to Forbes makes her the third richest woman in the\nworld. Ahead of MacKenzie Bezos are two women – Francoise Bettencourt Meyers,\nwho is the heiress to the brand L’Or\u00e9al and is worth $53.7 billion, and Alice\nWalton, who is the daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton, who is worth $50.4\nbillion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The share transfer also makes MacKenzie Bezos the 23rd\nrichest person on the planet after Alibaba founder Jack Ma whose personal\nwealth stands at $40 billion and Tencent chief executive officer Pony Ma whose\npersonal wealth stands at $37.7 billion according to Bloomberg Billionaires\nIndex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jeff Bezos, who is also the founder of space research\ncompany Blue Origin still remains the richest man on earth. His with a personal\nwealth according to a Forbes report stands at $117.8 billion, which is $13\nbillion more than the second richest man on the planet – Microsoft co-founder\nBill Gates.\n\nSeparately, MacKenzie Bezos back in May this\nyear signed the Giving Pledge. As a part of her pledge, MacKenzie will give\naway half of her wealth in her will or in her lifetime to charity. “We\neach come by the gifts we have to offer by an infinite series of influences and\nlucky breaks we can never fully understand. In addition to whatever assets life\nhas nurtured in me, I have a disproportionate amount of money to share. My\napproach to philanthropy will continue to be thoughtful. It will take time and\neffort and care. But I won’t wait. And I will keep at it until the safe is\nempty,” MacKenzie wrote in her letter.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MacKenzie Bezos is become the world’s third richest woman. She is also Amazon’s second largest shareholder after her ex-husband Jeff Bezos. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos earlier this week filed the paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission revealing that he had transferred 968,148 Amazon shares worth $1.8 billion between July 29 and July 31 as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[345,344],"class_list":["post-4359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-mackenzie-bezos","tag-worlds-third-richest-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4361,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359\/revisions\/4361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}