Jeffrey Preston Bezos, an American businessman, media mogul, investor, computer engineer, and commercial astronaut, was born on January 12, 1964. He is the former president and CEO of Amazon, as well as the company’s founder, executive chairman, and previous president. According to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index and Forbes, Bezos has a net worth of roughly US$171 billion as of June 2022 and was the world’s wealthiest person from 2017 to 2021.
Bezos graduated from Princeton University in 1986. He was born in Albuquerque and reared in Houston and Miami. He has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s degree in computer science under his belt. From 1986 to early 1994, he worked on Wall Street in various industries. On his way from New York City to Seattle in late 1994, Bezos launched Amazon.
The company started out as an online bookstore and has since expanded to include video and audio streaming, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence, among other e-commerce products and services. Through its Amazon Web Services division, it is currently the largest online sales company in the world, the largest Internet corporation by revenue, and the largest provider of virtual assistants and cloud infrastructure services.
What is Jeff Bezos’s net worth?
Jeff Bezos is an American philanthropist, businessman, and space explorer who is probably best-known for creating Amazon.com. Jeff Bezos is the founder, chief executive officer, president, and chairman of the board of Amazon.com. He first surpassed Bill Gates in terms of wealth in July 2017. He was the richest person in the world without interruption between October 2017 and January 2021. As of this writing, Jeff Bezos has a net worth of $130 billion.
Infancy
In the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Jeff Bezos(Instagram) was born on January 12, 1964. When Jeff’s mother gave birth to him, she was a 17-year-old high school student. His father was the proprietor of a bicycle store. Jeff’s birth father and mother eventually divorced. Miguel Bezos, a Cuban immigrant, was his father when he was four years old. Miguel adopted Jeff shortly after the wedding, and Jeff’s surname was changed from Jorgenson to Bezos. Mike got a position as an engineer for Exxon in Houston, so the family relocated. They were also near his mother’s parents, who owned a cattle ranch south of San Antonio. Mattie Louise Gise, his maternal grandmother, was George Strait‘s first cousin.
Bezos utilized his parents’ garage as a lab for his scientific pursuits when he was a kid in Texas. He also worked on his grandparents’ ranch during the summers. Jeff later claimed that his work ethic was taught to him at the ranch during his summers there. Later, he would buy the ranch and grow it from 25,000 acres to 300,000 acres.
Career
While at Princeton University, he fell in love with computer science and graduated in 1986 with a B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science.
He had a lot of options after college, but he decided to work for Fitel, a financial technology company. He acquired a job with the hedge fund D.E. Shaw & Co. after a career in banking. He had advanced to the level of senior vice president by the time he departed the company four years later.
Bezos met his future wife and conceived the idea for his next business venture, an online bookshop called Amazon while working at D.E. Shaw & Co.
Bezos Is a Billionaire Thanks to Amazon.
Amazon, established in Seattle, first began selling books online on July 16, 1995. Bezos assisted in the packaging of the orders and the delivery of the boxes to the post office for shipment.
Amazon developed from its beginnings as a bookseller to offer a wide range of items and services to clients all over the world, allowing it to reach $100 billion in yearly revenues in record time. The corporation is currently valued at around $1.6 trillion.
Personal Life of Jeff Bezos
Bezos met aspiring novelist MacKenzie Tuttle at D.E. Shaw, where they both worked. The couple has four children and married in 1993. In 2019, they divorced amicably, according to reports.
In the year 1998, the couple bought a home in Seattle’s Medina district. It was made up of two houses with a total area of over 29,000 square feet. In 2010, Bezos bought the next property, which included five acres and a 24,000-square-foot home. Bezos’ principal residence is rumored to be the compound.
