What did you do on Black Friday? Did you fight to the death over a $300 laptop? But did I mention we specialize in laptops fixed? However, if you shopped online this weekend, Jeff Bezos thanks you. Because Black Friday makes Jeff Bezos $100 billionaire.
He’s also the first person to be worth 12 digits since Bill Gates did it in 1999. This makes Jeff Bezos the richest man in the world, well, financially. If Amazon shares soared Friday, then so did online sales. In fact, his stock helped him earned over $32 billion in 2017 alone. And now he has the nerve to ask us little people what he should do with that $100 billion?
But I will give Bezos credit. He’s asking the public for help from a philanthropist standpoint. I have a few ideas I’ll share with you soon. In a tweet, Bezos says he wants to help people short term and make a lasting impact. Then he ended the tweet with “requesting ideas”. Bezos seems to be inspired by his $100 billion predecessors, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. Buffet has The Giving Pledge, Gates has the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Needless to say, Bezos is having the best year ever. His Amazon just acquired Whole Foods, and his voice-assistant Alexa devices are on many a Christmas list. That’s just for starters.
But to fulfill Bezos’ request. One thing he could do is to help the homeless population. Because I read one news article that made me very sad. It states that homelessness in 2017 is now as bad as it was in the 1930s Great Depression. For most people alive today, that’s means we’ve never seen homelessness this bad. I would love to see Jeff Bezos do something about this, whether it’s job creation, building affordable housing, or raising salaries of his company. In fact, I’d love to see all leaders in IT support do something. Black Friday makes Jeff Bezos a $100 billionaire. What should he do with it?