Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, was recently named the richest person in the world.

This is primarily a function of the stock he owns in the company and the company's valuation on the stock market.

How would Jeff Bezos stack up against other wealthy figures from history?

Are business titans of today in the same league as the famously wealthy from antiquity?

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Believe it or not, the question of who was the richest person in history is an extremely

difficult question to answer.

There are a bunch of different variables that have to be addressed even to begin to come up with a

resolution to the question. Let's start with the current richest person in the world

Jeff Bezos. His current net worth is around 180 to 200 billion dollars

depending on the price of Amazon stock.

That value is determined by some small number of shares being traded every day.

Let's say Jeff Bezos wanted to buy a $200 billion Faberge egg with cash.

Could he do it?

The answer is no, and it isn't even close.

To raise that much money in cash, he would have to sell his stock in Amazon.

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