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Bezos makes personal investments through his venture capital vehicle, Bezos Expeditions. [129] He was one of the first shareholders in Google, when he invested $250,000 in 1998. That $250,000 investment resulted in 3.3 million shares of Google stock, worth about $3.1 billion in 2017.
Bezos Expeditions is an American investment firm based in Mercer Island, Washington. [2] It serves as a family office for Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos by managing his personal investments. The firm invests both in early and late stage ventures of companies in different sectors.
FILE - Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is seen on the sidelines before the start of an NFL football game, Sept. 15, 2022, in Kansas City, Mo. After nearly three decades, Bezos is leaving Seattle.
An alpha version of ChaCha was launched on September 1, 2006. A beta version was introduced on November 6, 2006. [2] ChaCha said 20,000 guides had registered by year's end and that it had raised US$6 million in development funds, including support from Bezos Expeditions, a personal investment firm owned by Jeff Bezos, the entrepreneur behind Amazon.com. [3]
Bezos said Wednesday at the DealBook Summit that he's spending 95% of his time at Amazon on AI. Amazon announced this week it's building a supercomputer with Anthropic to enhance AI capabilities.
Currently worth $246 billion, Jeff Bezos is one of the richest men in the world. So it may come as a surprise to learn he kept his Amazon salary at just over $80,000 for decades.
By 2005, the company had moved away from consulting work to focus exclusively on its own web applications. The Ruby on Rails web application framework was extracted from the work on Basecamp and released as open source. [4] In 2006, the company announced that Jeff Bezos had acquired a minority stake via his personal investment company, Bezos ...
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was forced to address reports that he planned on dropping $600 million his Aspen, Colo., nuptials to Lauren Sanchez as “completely false.” “This whole thing is ...