For those unaware, Black Friday is the day following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, which marks the unofficial beginning of the Christmas shopping season. All retailers in the country, big and small, offer various sales including limited amounts of doorbuster/doorcrasher/doorsmasher items to entice potential shoppers. The net worth of Bezos had seen a jump of $32.6 billion this year up until last Thursday, with the additional $2.4 billion landing in his pocket. Bill Gates’ current wealth is estimated at $86.8 billion, but analysts say he would have a net worth of about $150 billion had he not given away some 700 million in shares in Microsoft and donated 5 percent of his net worth after re-inventing himself as a philanthropist. He wrote: “I’m thinking I want much of my philanthropic activity to be helping people in the here and now — short term — at the intersection of urgent need and lasting impact.” However, there were no clear immediate charitable plans.
— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) June 15, 2017 His tweet garnered more than 22,000 likes and almost 50,000 comments with suggestions as to how he could make a difference.
