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![Jeff Bezos](https://img.money.com/2017/10/gettyimages-813883316.jpg)
*SUN VALLEY, ID - JULY 13: Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer of Amazon, arrives for the third day of the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference.*

Jeff Bezos may have just overtaken Bill Gates to reclaim the distinction of [richest person in the world](https://money.com/jeff-bezos-net-worth-richest-person/), after Amazon reported earnings that beat Wall Street expectations, sending the stock up 8% in after-hours trading. The move boosted Bezos's net worth by as much as $6.6 billion.

Bezos is the founder and largest stakeholder in Amazon, and his total net worth is greater than $83 billion, according to the [Bloomberg Billionaires Index](https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/). Gates still sits atop that list as of early Friday, with a total of $88 billion.

Google’s cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin also felt their pockets swell as stock in Google’s parent company Alphabet jumped after it too released better-than-expected earnings. Gates's wealth also increased, albeit by a more modest $340 million, after Microsoft released its own earnings report.

The news comes at the same time as a report that says [the wealth of the world’s billionaires has swelled to $6 trillion](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/oct/26/worlds-witnessing-a-new-gilded-age-as-billionaires-wealth-swells-to-6tn), according to analysis by PwC and UBS. The wealth of the world’s billionaires increased by an average of 17% last year, at a rate far higher than the general population.

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