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Bezos first became a millionaire in 1997 after raising $54 million through Amazon's initial public offering (IPO). [199] He was first included on the Forbes World's Billionaires list in 1999 with an estimated net worth of $10.1 billion, which placed his on the 19th position in the world and 10th in the USA. [200]
Bezos is a Spanish surname. It most commonly refers to Jeff Bezos (born 1964), an American entrepreneur, industrialist, media proprietor, investor, and the former chief executive officer of Amazon. Other notable people with the surname include:
Founder and chairman of Amazon, founder of Blue Origin and owner of the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos is the third richest person in the world, according to Forbes. The entrepreneur has found a way ...
Amazon's first lawyer convinced founder Jeff Bezos that the name sounded too similar to "Cadaver," especially over the phone. 15 fascinating facts you probably didn't know about Amazon Skip to ...
On July 5, 1994, Bezos initially incorporated the company in Washington state with the name Cadabra, Inc. [7] After a few months, he changed the name to Amazon.com, Inc, because a lawyer misheard its original name as "cadaver". [8] Bezos selected this name by looking through a dictionary; he settled on "Amazon" because it was a place that was ...
The story of how Amazon became Amazon is a prime example of how difficult the company-naming process can be.
In 2013, Jeff Bezos led an effort to raise US$5 million for Business Insider Inc. through his investment company Bezos Expeditions. [4] On September 29, 2015, Axel Springer SE announced that it had acquired 88% of the stake in Business Insider Inc. for a reported US$ 343 million ( € 306 million).
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