Jeff Bezos just made about $7 billion personally off of Amazon's stock jump
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
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The stock spike sent CEO Jeff Bezos' personal net worth soaring by about $7 billion.
Bezos owns 83,921,121 Amazon shares, according to CNBC.
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His net worth is now estimated at $50 billion.
Amazon reported a net income of $92 million, or 19 cents a share. Analysts were expecting the ecommerce giant to post a loss of 14 cents a share. At this time last year, Amazon lost 27 cents per share.
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Disclosure: Jeff Bezos is an investor in Business Insider through hispersonal investment company Bezos Expeditions.
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