On July 20, 2021, he flew to space alongside his half-brother, Mark. On July 5, 2021, Bezos stepped down as the CEO and President of Amazon and transferred to the role of executive chairman Andy Jassy, the chief of Amazon's cloud computing division, succeeded Bezos as the CEO and President of Amazon. In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, his wealth grew by approximately $24 billion. In August 2020, according to Forbes, he had a net worth exceeding $200 billion. The first centibillionaire on the Forbes wealth index, Bezos was named the 'richest man in modern history' after his net worth increased to $150 billion in July 2018. In September 2021, Bezos co-founded biotechnology company Altos Labs with founder Yuri Milner.

He also purchased the major American newspaper The Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million and manages many other investments through his venture capital firm, Bezos Expeditions. Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle reached space in 2015 and afterwards successfully landed back on Earth he flew into space on Blue Origin NS-16 in 2021. It is the world's largest online sales company, the largest Internet company by revenue, and the largest provider of virtual assistants and cloud infrastructure services through its Amazon Web Services branch.īezos founded the aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company Blue Origin in 2000. The company began as an online bookstore and has since expanded to a variety of other e-commerce products and services, including video and audio streaming, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Bezos founded Amazon in late 1994 on a road trip from New York City to Seattle. He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields from 1986 to early 1994. He holds a degree in electrical engineering and computer science. īorn in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and Miami, Bezos graduated from Princeton University in 1986. With a net worth of US$128 billion as of February 2023, Bezos is the third-wealthiest person in the world and was the wealthiest from 2017 to 2021 according to both Bloomberg's Billionaires Index and Forbes. He is the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon. Jeffrey Preston Bezos ( / ˈ b eɪ z oʊ s/ BAY-zohss né Jorgensen born January 12, 1964) is an American entrepreneur, media proprietor, investor, and commercial astronaut.

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