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Jeffrey Preston Bezos (/ ˈ b eɪ z oʊ s / BAY-zohss; [2] né Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company.
Bezos finally decided that his new business would sell books online, because of the large worldwide demand for literature, the low unit price for books, and the huge number of titles available in print. [12] Amazon was founded in the garage of Bezos' rented home in Bellevue. [9] [13] [14] Bezos' parents invested almost $246,000 in the start-up ...
Miguel Ángel "Mike" [1] Bezos Pérez (born () September 29, 1945) is a Cuban-American billionaire and philanthropist who provided the initial investment to launch Amazon.com. He is a co-founder of the Bezos Family Foundation. He is the adoptive father of Jeff Bezos, the father of Mark Bezos and the husband of Jackie Bezos.
Amazon websites are country-specific (for example, amazon.com for the US and amazon.co.uk for UK) though some offer international shipping. [51] Visits to amazon.com grew from 615 million annual visitors in 2008, [52] to more than 2 billion per month in 2022. [citation needed] The e-commerce platform is the 12th most visited website in the ...
Elon Reeve Musk (/ ˈ iː l ɒ n m ʌ s k /; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and political figure known for his key roles in the automotive company Tesla, Inc. and the space company SpaceX. He is also known for his ownership of X Corp. (the company that operates the social media platform X , formerly Twitter), and his role in the founding ...
MacKenzie Scott (born MacKenzie Scott Tuttle, formerly Bezos; April 7, 1970) [1] [2] is an American novelist, philanthropist, co-founder of Amazon and ex-wife of Jeff Bezos.As of December 2024, she has a net worth of US$42.1 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index; owning a 4% stake in Amazon.
In 2018, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was ranked at the top for the first time and became the first centibillionaire included in the ranking, [5] surpassing Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who had topped the list 18 of the previous 24 years. In 2022, after topping the list for four years, Bezos was surpassed by Elon Musk. [6]
In 1994, Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in his garage in Seattle. On Jan. 12, he celebrated his 57th birthday as one of the richest people in the world with a personal fortune estimated at more than ...