Jeff Bezos is American business magnate.

Jeff Bezos

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Jeff Bezos is primarily known as a(n) computer scientist, entrepreneur, programmer, commercial astronaut, business oligarch.

American business magnate

Born:January 12, 1964

Age:62

Zodiac Sign:Capricorn

Children:4

Born in:Albuquerque, United States

Residence:Medina, United States

Languages:Spanish, English

Computer Scientist Entrepreneur Programmer Commercial Astronaut Business Oligarch

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The Bezos MandateJeff Bezos: The electricity metaphor for the web's futureVymýšlej a bádej: sebrané spisyJeff Bezos: What matters more than your talentsSynchronization of digital content

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Knight of the Legion of Honour (2023)Time 100 (2018)Axel Springer Award (2018)Gerard K. O’Neill Memorial Award (2018)Time 100 (2017)

Jeff Bezos

American business magnate

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Jeffrey Preston Bezos ( BAY-zohss; né Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman, and the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes, he was the world's wealthiest person from 2017 to 2021, and in 2026, his net worth was approximately US$284 billion. Bezos was born in Albuquerque, and raised in Houston and Miami. He graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with a degree in engineering. He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields from 1986 to early 1994. He founded Amazon in mid-1994 on a road trip from New York City to Seattle. The company began as an online bookstore and 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, and he flew into space on Blue Origin NS-16 in 2021. He purchased the major American newspaper The Washington Post in 2013 and manages many other investments through his venture capital firm, Bezos Expeditions. The first centibillionaire on the Forbes Real Time Billionaires Index, Bezos was named the "richest man in modern history" after his net worth increased to $150 billion in July 2018 (equivalent to $190,000,000,000 in 2025). On July 5, 2021, Bezos took over the role of executive chairman and stepped down as the CEO and president of Amazon, succeeded by Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy.

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“We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient. If you replace ‘customer’ with ‘reader,’ that approach, that point of view, can be successful at The Post, too..”

— Jeffrey Bezos, Washington Post’s next owner, aims for a new ‘golden era’ at the newspaper. September 2013

“That kind of divine discontent comes from observing customers and noticing that things can always be better.”

— Jeff Bezos explains why Amazon doesn’t really care about its competitors 17 September, 2013.

“We’re building what’s called a private cloud for them [the C.I.A.], … because they don’t want to be on the public cloud.”

— Amazon's Jeff Bezos looks to the future - CBS News.

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Jeff Bezos at Amazon Spheres Grand Opening in Seattle.

Street sticker in Washington, DC.

11 نوفمبر 2016 - معالي محمد عبدالله القرقاوي، وزير شؤون مجلس الوزراء، مع جيف بيزوس مؤسس شركة "أمازون" للتسوق الإلكتروني وعدد من المسؤولين الحكوميين خلال زيارة "مسرعات دبي للمستقبل" بأبراج الإمارات. 11 November 2016- H.E. Mohammad Abdullah Al Gergawi, UAE Minister of Cabinet Affairs, with Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of "Amazon", and a number of government officials during a visit to "Dubai Future Accelerators" at Emirates Towers.

11 نوفمبر 2016 - معالي محمد عبدالله القرقاوي، وزير شؤون مجلس الوزراء، مع جيف بيزوس مؤسس شركة "أمازون" للتسوق الإلكتروني في أبراج الإمارات. 11 November 2016- H.E. Mohammad Abdullah Al Gergawi, UAE Minister of Cabinet Affairs, with Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of "Amazon" at Emirates Towers.

11 نوفمبر 2016 - معالي محمد عبدالله القرقاوي، وزير شؤون مجلس الوزراء، مع جيف بيزوس مؤسس شركة "أمازون" للتسوق الإلكتروني وعدد من المسؤولين الحكوميين في "مسرعات دبي للمستقبل" بأبراج الإمارات في نوفمبر 2016. 11 November 2016- H.E. Mohammad Abdullah Al Gergawi, UAE Minister of Cabinet Affairs, with Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of "Amazon", and a number of government officials in "Dubai Future Accelerators" at Emirates Towers.

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Jeffrey P. Bezos in the Princeton University yearbook

This chart is a graphical representation of the net worth of Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and Blue Origin. It was calculated with start-of-year (otherwise known as publication date) estimates by Forbes magazine. All the currency figures are in the U.S. dollar standard and are not adjusted for inflation, i.e. they are nominal values.

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