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Mark Bezos (half-brother) [ 1 ] Signature. Jeffrey Preston Bezos (/ ˈbeɪzoʊs / BAY-zohss; [ 2 ] né Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American business magnate 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 is the second wealthiest ...
Amazon.com, Inc., is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994, as an online bookstore, Amazon went public after an initial public offering on May 15, 1997, during the midst of the dot-com bubble. [1] The funds gained from the IPO allowed Amazon to ...
Amazon was founded on July 5, 1994, by Jeff Bezos in Bellevue, Washington. [6] The company originally started as an online marketplace for books but gradually expanded its offerings to include a wide range of product categories. This diversification led to it being referred to as "The Everything Store". [7]
Uber. Back in 2011, Bezos invested $37 million in Uber’s Series B funding round. The popular ride-hailing and food delivery app went public in 2019 at $45 per share, valuing the company at $82.4 ...
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault have traded the crown several times in the past two years. Forbes' list of the world’s wealthiest people is a mix of technology and business ...
As of March 18, 2024, Jeff Bezos was the third-richest person in the world, behind Bernard Arnault & family and Elon Musk. Much of Bezos' $194.2 billion net worth comes from Amazon, as he still...
The company was created as a result of what Jeff Bezos called his "regret minimization framework" – to avoid regretting, in his old age, not having tried to participate in the emerging internet with his own startup. [5] In 1994, Bezos left his job as a vice president at D. E. Shaw & Co., a Wall Street firm, and moved to Seattle, Washington ...
In 2000, Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin as a space start-up looking to lower the cost of space launch. According to information from S&P Global Market Intelligence , that was actually two years ...