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Amazon Needs to Watch What It Eats
Even Jeff Bezos's trainer wouldn't be able to keep the company looking lean
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By any measure, things are going pretty well for Jeff Bezos. On Thursday, the Amazon.com chief executive briefly surpassed Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to become the richest person on Earth. Bezos—who is worth almost $90 billion thanks to a 17 percent stake in the mega-retailer—has so much money that he's taken to asking random people on Twitter for suggestions on how to spend it. And in his spare time, the 53-year-old got swole.
Gates retook the rich-guy crown on Thursday night, after Amazon did what it always does and reported that it barely made any money, despite selling $38 billion worth of goods and services. That fact briefly spooked Wall Street, but it's a matter of time before Bezos is on top again.