Jeff Bezos

Jeffrey Preston Bezos 

He is born on January 12, 1964. He is an American internet entrepreneur, industrialist, media proprietor, and investor. Bezos is the founder and CEO of the multinational technology company Amazon. He is the richest person in the world. Then there is a big competition for the richest person in the world between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos at Amazon Spheres Grand Opening in Seattle - 2018 (39074799225) (cropped).jpg

Bezos at the opening of Amazon Spheres in Seattle, January 2018

Born

Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen

January 12, 1964 (age 57)

Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.

Education

Princeton University (BSE)

Occupation

BusinessmanMedia proprietorInvestorComputer engineer

Years active

1986–present

Net worth

US$180.6 billion (As of 20 March 2021)[1]

Title

Founder, CEO, President and Chairman of Amazon

Spouse(s)

MacKenzie SScotBorn in.

​(m. 1993; div. 2019)​

Partner(s)Lauren Sánchez                              (2019–present)[2]

Children                                       :4

Albuquerque and raised in Houston and later 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 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 has upcoming plans to begin commercial suborbital human spaceflight. He also purchased the major American newspaper The Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million and manages many other investments through his Bezos Expeditions venture capital firm.

The first centi-billionaire 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, Bezos's wealth grew by approximately $24 billion.

On February 2, 2021, Bezos announced that he would step down as the CEO of Amazon sometime in the third quarter of 2021, and transition into the role of executive chairman. He is due to be replaced as CEO by Andy Jassy, the chief of Amazon's cloud computing division

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