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The first centibillionaire on the Forbes Real Time Billionaires Index and the second ever to have eclipsed the feat since Bill Gates in 1999, Bezos was named the "richest man in modern history" after his net worth increased to $150 billion in July 2018. [10] In August 2020, according to Forbes, he had a net worth exceeding $200 billion. On July ...
On November 8, 2023, a plan was adopted for Jeff Bezos to sell approximately 50 million shares of the company over the next year (the deadline for the entire sales plan is January 31, 2025). The first step was the sale of 12 million shares for about $2 billion. [44] On February 26, 2024, Amazon became a component of the Dow Jones Industrial ...
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 ...
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is seen on the sidelines before the start of an NFL football game, Sept. 15, 2022, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
Two years after Amazon first went public, Bezos was already a billionaire, sharing his take on what built his booming e-commerce business. Praising his employees for being “the hardest working ...
Bezos, who celebrates his birthday on January 12, started his first business when he was in high school. Jeff Bezos turns 58 today. Here are 14 things you might not know about the Amazon founder.
Marcus Jim Bezos (/ ˈ b eɪ z oʊ s / BAY-zohss; [1] born c. 1967) is an American space tourist and former advertising executive. He is the half-brother of Jeff Bezos , the founder of Amazon , [ 2 ] with whom he flew to the edge of space as part of the Blue Origin NS-16 mission on July 20, 2021.
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