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Jeff Bezos, meet James Bond. Amazon said Wednesday that it has struck a deal to acquire the historic movie studio MGM for $8.5 billion, bolstering its efforts to become a top player in Hollywood.

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According to sources, Amazon did not expect to make a profit for four to five years. This comparatively slow growth caused stockholders to complain that the company was not reaching profitability fast enough to justify their investment or even survive in the long term.

Jeff Bezos: 35 Amazon’s founder and CEO became a self-made billionaire in 1999 at 35, when the value in Bezos’ Amazon shares catapulted him from millionaire to billionaire status.

Bezos was born on January 12, 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to a teenage mother, Jacklyn Gise Jorgensen, and his biological father, Ted Jorgensen. The Jorgensens were married less than a year. When Bezos was 4 years old, his mother remarried Mike Bezos, a Cuban immigrant.

The first trillionaire could be Jeff Bezos instead. And, Coronavirus made Bezos even richer as millions of people relied on online ordering and delivery services rather than shopping at local stores. In 2020, the Amazon founder bumped his net worth up by almost $30 billion.

Musk, 49, became the world’s richest person in January after Tesla’s shares surged almost 750% last year amid a boom in technology-driven stocks.

Jeff Bezos, again. Amazon boss Jeff Bezos remains the richest person on the planet, according to Forbes’ 35th Annual World’s Billionaires List, with a net worth of $177 billion. Coming in second is Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, at $151 billion.