Jeff Bezos Net Worth

Net Worth:	$135 Billion
Date of Birth:	January 12, 1964 (60 years old)
Gender:	Male
Profession:	Entrepreneur, Businessperson
Nationality:	United States of America

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What is Jeff Bezos’s Net Worth?

Jeff Bezos is an American entrepreneur, computer engineer, media proprietor, space explorer, commercial astronaut, and investor who has a net worth of $135 Billion. He is the executive chairman, founder, and former CEO and president of Amazon.

In July 2017, he surpassed Bill Gates in terms of wealth. From October 2017 to January 2021, he was the richest person in the world without interruption.

Early Life

Jeffrey Bezos was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on January 12, 1964. He is the son of Jacklyn (née Gise) and Theodore Jørgensen. At the time of Jeffrey’s birth, his mother was a 17-year-old high school student and his father was 19 years old.

In April 1968, his mother married Cuban immigrant Miguel “Mike” Bezos, after she divorced. Mike adopted four-year-old Jeffrey, shortly after the wedding, and Jeff’s surname was then legally changed from Jorgensen to Bezos.

The family moved to Houston, Texas, after mike had received his degree from the University of New Mexico, so that he could begin working as an engineer for Exxon. When he was two years old, he attended a Montessori school in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

From his fourth to sixth grade, Jeff Bezos attended River Oaks Elementary School in Houston. Gise retired early to his ranch near Cotulla, Texas, where Bezos would spend many summers in his youth.

Bezos displayed scientific interests and technological proficiency, and once rigged an electric alarm to keep his younger siblings out of his room. Bezos would later purchase this ranch and expand it from 25,000 acres (10,117 ha) to 300,000 acres (121,406 ha).

When Jeff was about to start high school, the family moved to Miami. He worked at McDonald’s as a short-order line cook during the breakfast shift while he was in high school.

Bezos attended the Student Science Training Program at the University of Florida. He was the high school valedictorian, a National Merit Scholar and in 1982, a Silver Knight Award winner.

Bezos told the audience in his graduation speech that he dreamed of the day when mankind would colonize space.

He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with a 4.2 GPA and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree (B.S.E) in electrical engineering and electrical engineering.

Career

In 1986, after Bezos graduated from college, he was offered jobs at many organizations. He first worked at Fitel. When Bezos was promoted to head of development and director of customer service, he later transitioned into the banking industry when he became a product manager at Banker Trust.

He worked there between 1988 – 1990. In 1990, he joined D.E. Shaw and Co, a newly founded organization with a strong emphasis on mathematical modeling, and was still there till 1994. At the age of 30, he became D.E. Shaw’s fourth senior vice-president.

Bezos read that the internet was growing in late 1993, he decided to establish an online bookstore. On July 5, 1994, Bezos and his wife as at then, MacKenzie, left their jobs and founded Amazon in a rented garage in Bellevue.

Bezos led Amazon to launch Amazon Web Service in 2002. That same year, rapid spending from Amazon caused it financial distress when revenues stagnated. Amazon rebounded from financial instability and turned a profit of $400 million in 2003.

Bezos launched Amazon Kindle in November 2007. In 2008, Bezos received an honorary doctorate in Science and Technology from Carnegie Mellon University, and in 1999 Bezos was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year.

In 2000, Bezos founded Blue Origin, a human spaceflight startup company, partially as a result of his fascination with space travel.

Bezos secured a $600-million contract with the CIA on behalf of Amazon Web Services in 2013. In October of that year, Amazon was recognized as the largest online shopping retailer in the world.

Bezos sent an email to all Amazon employees on February 2, 2021, telling them the transition would give him “the time and energy he needs to focus on the Day 1 Fund, the Bezos Earth Fund, The Washington Post, Blue Origin, and his other passions.

As of this writing, Jeff Bezos has a net worth of $135 billion.

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