Jeff Bezos (born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen), is an American technology entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman, CEO, and president of Amazon. He 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 expanded to a variety of products and services, including video and audio streaming. It is currently the world’s largest online sales company, as well as the world’s largest provider of cloud infrastructure services via its Amazon Web Services arm. Bezos added to his business interests when he founded aerospace company Blue Origin in 2000. A Blue Origin test flight successfully first reached space in 2015, and Blue has plans to begin commercial suborbital human spaceflight in 2019. He purchased The Washington Post in 2013 for US$250 million in cash. Bezos manages other business investments through his venture capital fund, Bezos Expeditions.
Jeff Bezos has an estimated net worth of $175 billion.
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Net Worth: |
$175 Billion |
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Date of birth: |
January 12, 1964 |
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Country: |
United States of America |
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Source of wealth: |
Founder and CEO of Amazon |
