Jeff Bezos is worth about 150B$, this is extremely high, but other people, such as the ceo of Goldman Sachs is only worth about 1.3million$, and even the ceo of apple and apple is only worth around 1.8Billion. What is the cause for such a high difference of weath between these people even though the company are comparable in size.
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It’s nothing to do with being the CEO, it’s because they own a large chunk of the company. This typically only happens with founders (people who *started* the company). It’s really common for one of the founders to also be the CEO but their extreme wealth is coming from the chunk of the company they own, not becaue they’re the CEO.
Goldman Sachs is over 150 years old, all the founders are dead. The biggest shareholder in Goldman today is Vanguard Group; their share is worth about $10 billion (but they only own ~9% of the company).
Apple’s has three founders; one sold his share back to the two Steves early on, and one is dead, leaving only Steve Wozniak alive, and Wozniak left Apple in 1985 long before they got as valuable as they are now.
Edit:typos
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