JEFF BEZOS NET WORTH AND BIOGRAPHY

JEFF BEZOS NET WORTH AND BIOGRAPHY

JEFF BEZOS NET WORTH, AGE , CAREER ,AWARDS AND BIOGRAPHY

Bezos is the founder of Amazon, the world’s biggest online retailer. The Seattle-based company sells electronics, household goods and other products through its flagship website. It also controls the Whole Foods grocery chain and offers cloud computing and streaming services. Amazon had revenue of $386 billion in 2020.

BornJeffrey Preston Jorgensen
January 12, 1964 (age 58)
Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.
EducationPrinceton University (BSE)
OccupationEntrepreneurmedia proprietorinvestorcomputer engineer
Years active1986–present
TitleFounder and executive chairman of AmazonFounder of Blue OriginFounder of Bezos Expeditions
Spouse(s)MacKenzie Scott​​(m. 1993; div. 2019)​
Partner(s)Lauren Sánchez
(2019–present)
Children4
RelativesMark Bezos (brother)
George Strait (cousin)

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CAREER

Born in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and Miami, Bezos graduated from Princeton University in 1986. He holds a degree in electrical engineering and computer science. He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields from 1986 to early 1994. Bezos founded Amazon in late 1994, on a cross-country road trip from New York City to Seattle. The company began as an online bookstore and has since expanded to a wide variety of other e-commerce products and services, including video and audio streaming, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. It is currently the world’s largest online sales company, the largest Internet company by revenue, and the world’s largest provider of virtual assistants and cloud infrastructure services through its Amazon Web Services branch.

Bezos founded the aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company Blue Origin in 2000. Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle reached space in 2015, and afterwards successfully landed back on Earth. The company completed the first commercial suborbital human spaceflight in July 2021. He also purchased the major American newspaper The Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million, and manages many other investments through his venture capital firm, Bezos Expeditions. In September 2021, Bezos co-founded biotechnology company Altos Labs with Mail.ru founder Yuri Milner.

The first centibillionaire on the Forbes wealth index, Bezos was named the “richest man in modern history” after his net worth increased to $150 billion in July 2018. In August 2020, according to Forbes, he had a net worth exceeding $200 billion. In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, his wealth grew by approximately $24 billion.[12] On July 5, 2021, Bezos stepped down as the CEO of Amazon and transitioned into the role of executive chairman; Andy Jassy, the chief of Amazon’s cloud computing division, replaced Bezos as the CEO of Amazon. On July 20, 2021, he flew to space alongside his brother Mark. The suborbital flight lasted over 10 minutes, reaching a peak altitude of 66.5 miles (107.0 km).

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