She found educated guesses and piles of estimates from financial reporting and limited documentation of the Amazon founder’s worth.
The piece, which ran as part of a special issue of The New York Times Magazine in April 2022 focusing on the increasing number of billionaires in the United States, opens with an illustration of Bezos, the executive chairman of Amazon, as a king, complete with bejeweled crown and fur-lined cape, considering his empire atop a cardboard throne of Amazon boxes.Ĭhalabi, now a data editor at Guardian US who worked on the Bezos piece as a Times contributor, scoured the internet for reliable figures on Bezos’ net worth. That was just part of data journalist and illustrator Mona Chalabi’s challenge with “9 Ways to Imagine Jeff Bezos’ Wealth,” a combination of statistics and whimsical illustrations that break down a net worth unfathomable to most that just won the 2023 Pulitzer prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary. Can you picture a billion dollars? Let alone 172 billion of them?
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