Jeff Bezos Profile, Age, Height, Family, Affairs, Networth, Biography & More

Jeffrey Preston Bezos knows Jeff Bezos is an American entrepreneur, media owner, investor, and business astronaut. He is the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon. With a net worth of US$114.5 billion as of November 2022, Bezos is the fourth richest person in the world and was the richest from 2017 to 2021 according to Bloomberg and Forbes’ Billionaires Index.

Born in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and Miami, Bezos graduated from Princeton University in 1986. He has degrees in electrical engineering and computer science. He worked on Wall Street in various related fields from 1986 to early 1994. Bezos founded Amazon in late 1994 while on a road trip from New York to Seattle. The company started as an online bookstore and has since expanded into a variety of other e-commerce products and services, including video and audio streaming, cloud computing and artificial intelligence. It is the largest online retail company in the world, the largest internet company by revenue, and the largest provider of virtual assistants and cloud infrastructure services through its Amazon Web subsidiary. Services.

Bezos founded aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company Blue Origin in 2000. Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle reached space in 2015 and then successfully landed on Earth. He also bought major US 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 biotech 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 rose to $150 billion in July 2018. As of August 2020, according to Forbes, he had a net worth exceeding $200 billion. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, his wealth grew by around $24 billion.

On July 5, 2021, Bezos resigned as CEO and Chairman of Amazon and moved to the position of Executive Chairman; Andy Jassy, the head of Amazon’s cloud computing division, replaced Bezos as CEO and chairman of Amazon. On July 20, 2021, he flew into space alongside his half-brother, Mark. The suborbital flight lasted over 10 minutes, reaching a maximum altitude of 66.5 miles (107.0 km). In September 2022, he was ranked second on the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans with a net worth of $151 billion.

In 1992, Bezos was working for D. E. Shaw in Manhattan when he met novelist MacKenzie Tuttle, who was a research associate at the firm; the couple married a year later. In 1994, they moved across the country to Seattle, Washington, where Bezos founded Amazon. Bezos and his now ex-wife MacKenzie are the parents of four children: three sons and a daughter adopted from China. Bezos and MacKenzie have not disclosed their religious status. Public records, family history, and biographical details suggest the two were raised as some form of Christianity.

On January 9, 2019, Bezos and MacKenzie announced on Twitter their intention to divorce after a “long period” of separation. On April 4, 2019, the divorce was finalized, with Bezos retaining 75% of the couple’s Amazon stock and MacKenzie getting the remaining 25% ($35.6 billion) in Amazon stock. However, Bezos would retain all of the couple’s voting rights.

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