Bezos was born
in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and Miami. He
graduated from Princeton University in
1986 with degrees in electrical engineering and computer
science. He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields from
1986 to early 1994. Bezos founded Amazon in mid-1994 on a road trip from New
York City to Seattle. 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. 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.
Bezos founded
the aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital
spaceflight services company Blue Origin in 2000. 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. He 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. In September 2021, Bezos co-founded Altos
Labs with Mail.ru founder Yuri Milner.
The
first centibillionaire on the Forbes Real
Time Billionaires Index and the second ever to have achieved the feat
since Bill Gates in 1999, Bezos was named the “richest man in modern
history” after his net worth increased to $150 billion in July
2018. In August 2020, according to Forbes, he had a net
worth exceeding $200 billion. On July 5, 2021, Bezos stepped down as the
CEO and president of Amazon and took over the role of executive chairman. Amazon
Web Services CEO Andy Jassy succeeded Bezos as the CEO
and president of Amazon.
Family Life
He
was born to a teenage mother and was later adopted by his stepfather Miguel
Bezos. He married novelist MacKenzie Bezos in 1993 and after more
than 25 years together they separated in early 2019. The couple had four
children together. He got engaged to journalist Lauren Sánchez in May
2023 and scheduled Marriage from June 24 to June 26, 2026 in Venice, Italy.
Jeff Bezos - Profile Table
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Full Name | Jeffrey Preston Bezos |
| Screen Name | Jeff Bezos |
| Date of Birth | 12 January 1964 |
| Age | 61 Years |
| Birth Place | Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA |
| Profession | Business People |
| Father | Unknown |
| Mother | Unknown |
| Nationality | USA |
| Social Media Insta | Jeff Bezos - 4.3M+ Followers |
| Twitter (X) | Jeff Bezos - 6.9M+ Followers |
| Facebook Page | Jeff Bezos - 3.8K+ Followers |
| Siblings | Mark Bezos, Christina Bezos |
| Relationship | 2 |
| Spouse | MacKenzie Scott (1993-2019), Engaged With Lauren Sanchez 2023 |
| Children | 4 |
| Popularity | 915 |
| Net Worth | $221.4B USD |
| Category | Business People |