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Company: Amazon founded. [97] 1995 July 16 Launch Amazon launches its online bookstore. 1997: May 15: Company: Amazon IPOs at $18.00/share, raising $54 million. [97] 1998: April 27: Acquisitions: Amazon acquires the Internet Movie Database, a comprehensive repository for movie information on the Internet. [98] 1998: August 5: Company Direction
The company, originally named Cadabra, was founded in the converted garage of Bezos's house for symbolic reasons and was renamed to Amazon in November 1994. [24] The Amazon website launched for public sales on July 16, 1995, and initially sourced its books directly from wholesalers and publishers.
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. Since January 2025, he is serving as Administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), under the second Donald Trump presidential ...
In March, Bezos surpassed Tesla owner Elon Musk for the No. 1 spot, the first time he ranked at the top since 2021. The gap between the two is wider now, though, with Musk’s net worth at $334 ...
Musk joined Tesla as a venture capital backer and co-founder in 2003. Tesla ’s first car was the roadster, and the company spent several years dominating the EV market, although it has recently ...
Musk is followed on the billionaires list by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos - with a net worth of $243.7 billion, while Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison is in the third spot with a net worth of $223.4 ...
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.
Forbes' annual world's billionaires list includes a record-breaking 2,755 billionaires, with Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos topping it for the fourth consecutive year, the media company said on ...