It is worth mentioning that as of June 2021, Bezos held 51.2 million common shares of Amazon, accounting for about 10% of Amazon's total shares, far exceeding the 6.5% held by its second largest shareholder. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, when Bezos stepped down as CEO of Amazon, his net worth reached US$197 billion (about RMB 1.27 trillion), ranking him as the world's richest man.

In 2018, as Amazon's stock price soared, Bezos' net worth doubled from US$81.5 billion in October 2017 to US$160 billion in October of the following year, becoming the world's richest man. He beat Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg to become the first person to accumulate a 12-digit fortune on Forbes' annual list of the 400 richest Americans. He has been at the top of the list ever since, especially when the epidemic pushed Amazon's stock price to new highs. In January this year, Elon Musk briefly surpassed Bezos to become the world's richest man, and Bernard Arnault, CEO of the French LVMH Group, also surpassed Bezos to become the world's richest man in May, but the surge in Amazon's stock has allowed Bezos to top the list again. Bezos' wealth has increased by 73% since 2019, even though he gave his ex-wife MacKenzie Scott a quarter of his Amazon stock in the year he divorced her.