Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American entrepreneur, media proprietor, investor, and computer engineer. He is the founder and executive chairman of Amazon, where he previously served as the president and CEO. He was born on January 12, 1964 in Albuquerque. Amazon has a net worth of almost $200.1 billion as per the record of September 2021, he is either the wealthiest or second-wealthiest person in the world. He is also known as the founder of Blue Origin and the founder of Bezos Expeditions.
He got a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University in 1986. He was married to MacKenzie Scott in 1993. She was an American novelist and philanthropist and was known as the third wealthiest women in United States and was divorced in 2019. He is having four children.
When his net worth increased to $150 billion in July 2018, he was named as the richest man in the modern history and according to Forbes his net worth exceeded to $200 billion. His wealth increases to $24 billion during COVID-19 pandemic. He left his seat as the CEO of Amazon and came into the role of executive chairman on July 5, 2021 and Andy Jassy who is the chief of Amazon’s cloud computing division; replaced Jeffrey Preston Bezos back as the CEO of Amazon. He flew up to space with his brother Mark Bezos on July 20, 2021 and they reached a peak altitude of 66.5 miles (107.0 km) in 10 minutes.
He purchased the major American newspaper The Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million and managed many other investments through his venture capital firm, Bezos Expeditions. In September 2021, Bezos co-founded biotechnology company Altos Labs with Mail.ru founder Yuri Milner. Bezos founded the aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight company Blue Origin in 2000. It’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.
