{"id":90252,"date":"2019-05-03T15:43:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T22:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/jeff-bezos-worlds-richest-man-is-about-to-get-even-richer"},"modified":"2019-05-03T15:43:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T22:43:36","slug":"jeff-bezos-worlds-richest-man-is-about-to-get-even-richer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/jeff-bezos-worlds-richest-man-is-about-to-get-even-richer","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos, world\u2019s richest man, is about to get even richer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jeff-bezos-worlds-richest-man-is-about-to-get-even-richer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When Uber goes public next week, some early investors in the ride-hailing company stand to make handsome profits.<\/li>\n<li>Jeff Bezos is among that group \u2014 his $3 million stake could be worth $400 million at IPO time.<\/li>\n<li>Ousted founder and CEO Travis Kalanick is expected to make nearly $9 billion from his 8.6 percent stake. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The rich keep getting richer. Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, whose estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/jeff-bezos\/#10155fcd1b23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">net worth<\/a> of $157 billion makes him the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pictures\/richest-people-in-world-forbes\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">richest man in the world<\/a>, is expected to haul in hundreds of millions of dollars from Uber\u2019s anticipated initial public offering next week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jeff-bezos-net-worth-uber-ipo-to-make-richest-man-in-the-world-even-richer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Uber goes public next week, some early investors in the ride-hailing company stand to make handsome profits. Jeff Bezos is among that group \u2014 his $3 million stake could be worth $400 million at IPO time. Ousted founder and CEO Travis Kalanick is expected to make nearly $9 billion from his 8.6 percent stake. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}