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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:
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 ...
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 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 ...
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.
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 ...
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