Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos

Known for: Acting
Biography: 1964-01-12 (60 years old)

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Biography

Jeffrey Preston Bezos ( BAY-zohss; né Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American entrepreneur, media proprietor and investor. He is the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company. With a net worth of about US$170 billion as of November 2023, Bezos is the third-wealthiest person in the world and was the wealthiest from 2017 to 2021, according to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes.Born in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and Miami, Bezos graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with degrees 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 mid 1994 on a road trip from New York City to Seattle. The company began as an online bookstore and has since expanded to a variety of other e-commerce products and services, including video and audio streaming, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. It is the world's largest online sales company, the largest Internet company by revenue, and the 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; he flew into space on Blue Origin NS-16 in 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 the biotechnology company Altos Labs with Mail.ru founder Yuri Milner.The first centibillionaire on the Forbes Real Time Billionaires Index and the second ever to have eclipsed the feat since Bill Gates in 1999, 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. On July 5, 2021, Bezos stepped down as the CEO and president of Amazon and took over the role of executive chairman. Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy succeeded Bezos as the CEO and president of Amazon. In September 2022, he was ranked second on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans, with a net worth of $151 billion.

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Known For
Acting

Gender
Male

Birthday
1964-01-12 (60 years old)

Birth Name
Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen

Birth Place
Albuquerque, United States of America

Religion
irreligion

Height

Net Worth
$205 Billion

Relationships
MacKenzie Scott (1992-01-01 - 2019-01-01), Lauren Sánchez

Children
adoptive daughter of Jeff Bezos, third son of Jeff Bezos, second son of Jeff Bezos, Preston Bezos

Mother
Jacklyn Gise

Siblings
Mark Bezos

Citizenships
United States of America

Residences
Medina, United States of America

Also Known As
Jeffrey P. Bezos, Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen, Jeffrey Preston Bezos

Awards
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Axel Springer Award, The James Smithson Bicentennial Medal, Heinlein Prize for Advances in Space Commercialization, Logistik Hall of Fame, Legion of Honour, Time 100, Time Person of the Year


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