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Jeff Bezos
Bezos in 2017
Born	Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen (1964-01-12) January 12, 1964 (age 61) Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.
Education	Princeton University (BSE)
Occupations	Businessman media proprietor investor
Known for	Founding Amazon
Title	Founder and executive chairman of Amazon Founder of Blue Origin Owner of The Washington Post Founder of Bezos Expeditions Executive Chair of Bezos Earth Fund Founder of Bezos Academy
Spouse	\n MacKenzie Scott \n (m. 1993; div. 2019)
Partner(s)	Lauren S\u00e1nchez (2019\u2013present; engaged)
Children	4
Parents	Jackie Bezos (mother) Ted Jorgensen (father) Miguel Bezos (stepfather)
Relatives	Mark Bezos (half-brother)^[1]
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Jeffrey Preston Bezos (/\u02c8be\u026azo\u028as/ BAY-zohss;^[2] n\u00e9 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 is the second wealthiest person in the world, with a net worth of US$251 billion as of December 17, 2024, according to Forbes and the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.^[3] He was the wealthiest person from 2017 to 2021, according to Forbes and the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.^[4]^[5]\n

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.\n

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.^[6]\n

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.^[7] 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.\n

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Jeff Bezos
Space career
Commercial Astronaut
Flight time	10m 18s
Selection	Blue Origin
Missions	NS-16
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Year\n	Billions\n	Change\n	Year\n	Billions\n	Change\n
Annual estimates of Jeff Bezos's net worth^[a]\n
1999\n	10.1\n	$\"Steady\"$ 0.0%\n	2009\n	6.8\n	$\"Decrease\"$ 17.1%\n
2000\n	6.1\n	$\"Decrease\"$ 40.5%\n	2010\n	12.6\n	$\"Increase\"$ 85.3%\n
2001\n	2.0\n	$\"Decrease\"$ 66.6%\n	2011\n	18.1\n	$\"Increase\"$ 43.7%\n
2002\n	1.5\n	$\"Decrease\"$ 25.0%\n	2012\n	23.2\n	$\"Increase\"$ 28.2%\n
2003\n	2.5\n	$\"Increase\"$ 66.6%\n	2013\n	28.9\n	$\"Increase\"$ 24.5%\n
2004\n	5.1\n	$\"Increase\"$ 104%\n	2014\n	30.5\n	$\"Increase\"$ 5.5%\n
2005\n	4.1\n	$\"Decrease\"$ 19.6%\n	2015\n	50.3\n	$\"Increase\"$ 60.9%\n
2006\n	4.3\n	$\"Increase\"$ 5.1%\n	2016\n	45.2\n	$\"Decrease\"$ 10.1%\n
2007\n	8.7\n	$\"Increase\"$ 102.3%\n	2017\n	72.8\n	$\"Increase\"$ 61.6%\n
2008\n	8.2\n	$\"Decrease\"$ 5.7%\n	2018\n	112.0\n	$\"Increase\"$ 53.8%\n
Main data source: Forbes World's Billionaires Estimates Additional reference(s): Bloomberg Billionaires Index \n

v t e Jeff Bezos
Organizations	\n Amazon\n Amazon Web Services \n Alexa \n Amazon Appstore \n Amazon Luna \n Amazon Music \n Amazon Pay \n Amazon Prime \n Amazon Prime Video \n Ring \n Amazon Robotics \n Twitch \n Blue Origin \n Bezos Expeditions \n Bezos Family Foundation \n Washington Post \n
Family	\n Ted Jorgensen \n Miguel Bezos \n Jackie Bezos \n Mark Bezos \n MacKenzie Scott \n Lauren S\u00e1nchez \n
Related	\n Koru \n Billionaire space race \n The Everything Store \n The Space Barons \n Phone hacking incident \n

v t e Blue Origin
Vehicles	\n Charon^† \n Goddard^† \n PM2^‡ \n New Shepard\n Propulsion modules\n Tail 1 ^‡ \n Tail 2 ^† \n Tail 3 ^‡ \n Tail 4 \n Tail 5 \n Capsules\n Jules Verne ^† \n H.G. Wells \n First Step \n K\u00e1rm\u00e1n Line \n New Glenn \n Blue Moon ^\" \n Blue Ring \n LPV\n LPV Jacklyn (ship)^† \n LPV1 Jacklyn (barge) \n
Rocket engines	\n BE-1 ^† \n BE-2 ^† \n BE-3 \n BE-4 \n BE-7 ^\" \n
Notable spaceflights	\n New Glenn launches \n NS-15 \n NS-16 \n NS-17 \n NS-18 \n NS-19 \n NS-20 \n NS-21 \n NS-22 \n NS-23^X \n NS-24 \n NS-25 \n NS-26 \n NS-27 \n NS-28 \n
Facilities	\n Headquarters\n Kent, Washington \n Corn Ranch \n Launch Complex 36\n Cape Canaveral \n Space Launch Complex 9\n Vandenberg \n
Key people	\n Jeff Bezos (founder) \n Dave Limp (CEO) \n Jeffrey Ashby (chief of mission assurance) \n Nicholas Patrick (human integration architect) \n
Related	\n Commercial astronaut \n Billionaire space race \n Blue Origin Federation, LLC v. United States \n
\n \" – denotes unflown vehicles or engines \n † – denotes retired vehicles, engines, products \n ‡ – denotes destroyed vehicles \n ^X – denotes failed flight \n

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1 January, 1998