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Bezos first became a millionaire in 1997 after raising $54 million through Amazon's initial public offering (IPO). [199] He was first included on the Forbes World's Billionaires list in 1999 with an estimated net worth of $10.1 billion, which placed his on the 19th position in the world and 10th in the USA. [200]
Bezos is a Spanish surname. It most commonly refers to Jeff Bezos (born 1964), an American entrepreneur, industrialist, media proprietor, investor, and the former chief executive officer of Amazon. Other notable people with the surname include:
On July 5, 1994, Bezos initially incorporated the company in Washington state with the name Cadabra, Inc. [7] After a few months, he changed the name to Amazon.com, Inc, because a lawyer misheard its original name as "cadaver". [8] Bezos selected this name by looking through a dictionary; he settled on "Amazon" because it was a place that was ...
Founder and chairman of Amazon, founder of Blue Origin and owner of the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos is the third richest person in the world, according to Forbes. The entrepreneur has found a way ...
Jeff Bezos, Andy Jassy, and the next 30 years of Cadabra ... For the first 27 of Amazon’s 30 years of existence, Jeff Bezos drove this magic machine. ... Michigan stuns No. 2 Ohio State 13-10 ...
Amazon's first lawyer convinced founder Jeff Bezos that the name sounded too similar to "Cadaver," especially over the phone. 15 fascinating facts you probably didn't know about Amazon Skip to ...
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 ...
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.