Rank #4
Jeff Bezos
Net worth $271.9B
Amazon · United States
- Born
- Jan 12, 1964
- Age
- 62
- Source
- Amazon
- Residence
- Miami, Florida
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Engaged
- Children
- 4
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Princeton University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Jeff Bezos founded e-commerce giant Amazon in 1994 out of his Seattle garage.
- Bezos stepped down as CEO to become executive chairman in 2021. He owns 8% of the company.
- He and his wife MacKenzie divorced in 2019 after 25 years of marriage and he transferred a quarter of his then-16% Amazon stake to her.
- In 2020, Bezos pledged to donate $10 billion to climate causes by 2030 through his Bezos Earth Fund; he has granted $2 billion so far.
- He owns The Washington Post and Blue Origin, an aerospace company developing rockets; he briefly flew to space in one in 2021.
- Bezos said in a 2022 interview with CNN that he plans to give away the majority of his wealth in his lifetime, without disclosing specific details.
- Growing up, Bezos worked summers on his grandfather's ranch repairing Caterpillar tractors.
- Bezos met Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 and managed to become one of the company's first angel investors, putting in an estimated $250,000.
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