Jeff Bezos becomes America's third richest person

Bezos’s fortune has jumped 86 percent in 2015 as investors have cheered profits at Amazon and growth in its cloud segment. The $24.6 billion year-to-date increase is the most of anyone on the index and almost equal to the combined gains of Facebook Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Amazon shares surged above $600 in after-hours trading Thursday and closed at $599.03 Friday. The increase makes him the fifth-richest person on Earth, up from the No. 20 spot on Jan. 1

Good Job, Bezos. Thank you.

"We don't know if Bezos bought the Post as an act of altruism or business genius, or something in between. What we do know is that, at Amazon, he learned, and taught, the right lessons. “The three big ideas at Amazon are long-term thinking, customer obsession, and willingness to invent,” Bezos said recently. Precisely the ones the news industry now needs."