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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.
He was the biological father of e‑commerce magnate Jeff Bezos. Jorgensen was born in Chicago to a Danish-American family that moved to Albuquerque when he was a teenager. Jorgensen was a unicyclist who performed at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus , and in 1962 became the president of Albuquerque Unicycle Club , the world's first ...
Jacklyn Bezos (née Gise, formerly Jorgensen; born December 29, 1946) is an American billionaire and philanthropist who provided the initial investment to launch Amazon.com. She is a co-founder of the Bezos Family Foundation. She is the mother of Jeff Bezos and Mark Bezos, and the ex-wife of Ted Jorgensen.
Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of The Washington Post, broke his silence Tuesday on the mounting turmoil within his newspaper, expressing support for maintaining high standards at the storied ...
In 1994, Jeff Bezos co-founded the future e-commerce behemoth Amazon in a Seattle garage. In an interview with Time magazine, the Amazon CEO revealed he gave himself a 30 percent chance that ...
Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon out of his Seattle garage in 1994, is leaving the city and moving to Miami to be near his parents and his space company Blue Origin.. Bezos announced the decision in ...
Jackie Bezos (born 1946 [1]) is the mother of Jeff Bezos. [1] She was married to Jorgensen from 1963 to 1965. [1] She later married Miguel Bezos. [7] Mark Bezos (born 1967) is the half brother of Jeff Bezos. [8] He is a space tourist, a volunteer fire fighter, and former advertising executive. [9] [10] Lauren Sánchez (born 1969) got engaged to ...
Shortly after the bill’s introduction in 2021, Bezos announced plans to step down as Amazon’s CEO. Critics of the proposed wealth tax pounced , saying Bezos would surely leave Washington.