The document compares Jeff Bezos and Bernard Arnault, the two richest people in the world. Bezos founded Amazon and is worth $161.2 billion, while Arnault is the CEO of luxury brand LVMH and has a net worth of $107.6 billion. It outlines their early lives, careers, companies, personal lives, philanthropic activities, and the current worth of their companies. Both started with little and built massive business empires through strategic acquisitions and investments.

1. JEFF BEZOS
VS
BERNARD
ARNAULT
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2. BERNARD
ARNAULT
Bernard Arnault, CEO
of luxury-goods maker
LVMH
and the richest person
on the European
continent became the
second richest person
on the planet after Jeff
Bezos with $107.6
billion riches.

3. JEFF
BEZOS
Amazon’s CEO
holds his top
position in richest
person in the world
with a wealth of
$161.2 billion.

4. Jeff Bezos is younger than the
CEO of LVMH. He has
worked on Wall Street and many
other companies, contrastingly
the professional
life of Bernard Arnault started
with his father’s business.
EARLY
LIFE OF THE
BILLIONAIRES

5. JEFF BEZOS
Born on January
12, 1964, in San
Francisco. Jeff Bezos
was born to Joanne
Schieble and Jacklyn
Gise. Later, legally
adopted by Miguel
Bezos when his mother
married him.AN OCI PRESENTATION 2020

6. JEFF BEZOS
He completed his
schooling from Miami
Palmetto Senior High
School
and graduated from
Princeton University
with a B.Sc. degree in
Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science.AN OCI PRESENTATION 2020

7. JEFF BEZOS
Jeff successfully
worked in the field of
finance in companies
such as Fitel,
Bankers Trust and D. E.
Shaw & Co, New York.
He was the youngest
Vice President at D. E.
Shaw & Co.AN OCI PRESENTATION 2020

8. BERNARD
ARNAULT
Born on 5 March 1949,
in Roubaix, France to a
businessman Jean Leon
Arnault and Marie-
Josèphe Savinel.
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9. BERNARD
ARNAULT
The business-minded
person completed his
graduation in
Engineering from École
Polytechnique. In March
of 2017, Bernard got an
opportunity to give a
lecture at his college in
Paris.
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10. BERNARD
ARNAULT
Soon after college, he
joined his father’s
business. In 1976, he was
successful in convincing
his father to change his
business from a civil
engineering one to the
booming real estate
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11. BERNARD
ARNAULT
With a specialty in
holiday accommodation
they had significant
success in the
business.
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12. Amazon was founded by Bezos.
While Arnault
acquired 24% shares of
LVMH in a joint venture with
Guinness PLC and
took it to the peaks.
THE FIRMS

13. FONDATION
OF AMAZON
In 1995, Amazon the
online bookstore was
founded. It went public
two years later.
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14. FONDATION
OF AMAZON
The company expanded
its product line
including clothes,
jewelry, shoes and
bags.
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15. FONDATION
OF AMAZON
Blue Origin, an
aerospace company
which will offer
spaceflight services to
its customers was set
up in 2004 by Jeff
Bezos.
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16. ACQUIRING
DIOR
In 1975 Bernard Arnault
became the CEO of the
Christian Dior.
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17. ACQUIRING
DIOR
Arnault made a $15
million investment in
the Boussac
Saint-Frères, the
bankrupted textile firm.
He sold most of its
assets remaining the
prestigious Christian
Dior brand and Le Bon
Marché department
store.
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18. ACQUIRING
DIOR
By January 1989,
Arnault bought 43.5% of
the shares of the luxury
goods conglomerate
LVMH.
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19. Both the business tycoons have
witnessed
failed relationships in the past.
And are successful with their
ladies now.
PERSONAL LIFE

20. JEFF BEZOS
Lauren Wendy Sánchez, the
rumored girlfriend of Jeff
Bezos is an Emmy Award-
nominated American news
anchor, actress,
producer, pilot, and
entrepreneur.
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21. JEFF BEZOS
In 1993 Jeff Bezos was
married to MacKenzie
Tuttle. The pair announced
their intent to split in
January 2019.
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22. JEFF BEZOS
Jeff is the father of three
sons from his former
marriage and a daughter
adopted from China.
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23. BERNARD
ARNAULT
He married
Helene Mercier in
1991. He is the father of
three children
from his current marriage.
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24. BERNARD
ARNAULT
From 1973 to 1990 Bernard
was married to
Anne Dewavrin and have
two children from her.
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25. BERNARD
ARNAULT
Arnault’s daughter
Delphine Arnault is a
member of the LVMH Board
of Directors and the
Executive Committee. She
is the Executive Vice
President of Louis Vuitton
since September 2013.
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26. The two richest people in the
world have
been awarded for their
magnificent works at different
stages in their life.
AWARDS
AND
ACHIEVEMENTS

27. JEFF BEZOS
In 2008, Jeff was awarded
an honorary doctorate in
Science and
Technology from Carnegie
Mellon University.
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28. JEFF BEZOS
In 2011, Jeff
got an Innovation Award
for the Amazon Kindle from
The Economist.
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29. JEFF BEZOS
In December 2012, the
National Retail
Federation awarded Jeff
Bezos the Gold Medal
Award. Amazon was named
as the top retailer of the
year.
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30. BERNARD
ARNAULT
In 2007 Bernard was made
a Commander of the
French Legion
of Honour.
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31. BERNARD
ARNAULT
Four years later in 2011, he
was honored
with the title of Grand
Officer of the French
Legion of Honor.
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32. BERNARD
ARNAULT
He was presented with the
Corporate
Citizenship award from the
Woodrow Wilson
International Center for
Scholars in 2011.
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33. The two are among the three
people with
wealth over $100 billion
including Bill Gates.
RICHES

34. JEFF BEZOS
Jeff Bezos has an annual
salary of only $81,840. A
major reason behind his
wealth of $161.2 billion is
his 16% share at
Amazon.com
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35. JEFF BEZOS
On 27 July 2017, Jeff
Bezos
overtook Gates to be the
richest person in the world
for just a few hours. He
came charging back on
October 27 2017, with
$93.1 billion and has
successfully acquired his
spot till today.AN OCI PRESENTATION 2020

36. JEFF BEZOS
In 2013 he
acquired ‘The Washington
Post’ for $250 million,
which he marks as an
intuitive decision
according to Forbes.
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37. JEFF BEZOS
Bezos has invested $112
million in series B
financing of Airbnb and
$35 million in the
transportation service
Uber.
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38. JEFF BEZOS
Amazon owns the largest
commercial property in
Seattle, its South Lake
Union headquarters. The
property was bought for
$1.5 billion in 2012.
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39. BERNARD
ARNAULT
The chairman and
executive of LVMH Moet
Hennessy Louis Vuitton,
the world's largest maker
of luxury goods owned
the position of the second
richest person on earth
replacing Steve Jobs on 16
July 2019.AN OCI PRESENTATION 2020

40. BERNARD
ARNAULT
Belmond luxury hotel and
travel group, for which
LVMH is paying $3.2
billion; a move Arnault
says is “entirely consistent
with our continued
investment in the field of
experiential luxury.”
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41. BERNARD
ARNAULT
LVMH owns approximately
11% shares of
Carrefour. The worth of
LVMH’s investment has
been reduced by a
significant $1
billion.
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42. BERNARD
ARNAULT
LVMH holds
38% share in Chateau
d’Yquem
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43. BERNARD
ARNAULT
In 2001, Bernard Arnault
bought the auction house
Tajan,
which LVMH decided to be
see the auctioneer
Rodica B. Seward
after a business venture of
three years.
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44. The billionaires are giving away
their fortunes to
make the world a better place.
PHILANTHROPIC
ACTIVTIES

45. JEFF BEZOS
In 2018,
$33 million donation
to TheDream.US was done
by the Jeff and MacKenzie
Bezos to improve college
access for undocumented
youth immigrants.
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46. JEFF BEZOS
The Bezos Family
Foundation operated by
Jeff’s parents fund several
education projects. Jeff
has made individual
multimillion-dollar
charitable contributions to
the Seattle Museum of
History and Industry, and
his alma mater, Princeton
University.
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47. BERNARD
ARNAULT
Bernard is involved
in several philanthropic
activities
globally, which includes
the corporate
philanthropic activities
he introduced in 1991 in
LVMH.
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48. BERNARD
ARNAULT
Recently, the Arnault
family has announced to
donate €200
million for the restoration
of Paris' fire-stricken
Notre-Dame cathedral.
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49. The companies of the two
richest people
are worth billionaires.
WORTH
OF THE
COMPANIES

50. JEFF BEZOS
The operating income of
Amazon as estimated in the
year 2018 was US$12.421
billion
with 647,500 employees.
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51. BERNARD
ARNAULT
The net income of LVMH in
the year 2018 was $7.13
billion with 145,247
employees in 2018.
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