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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.
Jeff Bezos announces that the new headquarters HQ2 will be split between New York City and Northern Virginia. [156] 2019 February 14 Company Amazon cancels plans to open new HQ2 in New York City after massive backlash from local politicians and community members. Plans in Northern Virginia remain unchanged. [157] 2019 International
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 ...
Today marks the anniversary of when the former online bookstore went public in 1997 with an original IPO price of $18 per share, catapulting Bezos into millionaire status almost immediately.
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon is a 2013 bestselling book written by journalist Brad Stone. It documents the rise of Amazon.com in the 1990s, its near demise during the dot-com bust , and its subsequent revival with the inventions of Amazon Prime , the Kindle and Amazon Web Services .
Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos is now the second-richest person in the world with a net worth of $181.7 billion as of Jan. 12, according to Forbes. As Bezos gets ready to celebrate his 57th ...
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, is one of the wealthiest people in the world; Forbes recently reported his net worth at $114 billion. It's hard for most of us to imagine being in a similar spot ...
MacKenzie Scott (née Tuttle, formerly Bezos; born April 7, 1970) [1] [2] is an American novelist, philanthropist, co-founder of Amazon and ex-wife of Jeff Bezos. As of December 2024 [update] , she has a net worth of US$42.1 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index ; owning a 4% stake in Amazon .