Jeff Bezos
About Jeff Bezos
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 a bit less than 10% 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.
Bezos donated more than $1.1 million worth of stock to nonprofits in 2023, though it's unclear which organizations received those shares
He owns The Washington Post and Blue Origin, an aerospace company developing rockets; he briefly flew to space in one in July 2021.
Bezos said in a November 2022 interview with CNN that he plans to give away the majority of his wealth in his lifetime, without disclosing specific details.
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01/12/64 (age 60)Number of children
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Bachelor of Arts/Science, Princeton UniversitySelf-made
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Growing up, Bezos worked summers on his grandfather's ranch repairing Caterpillar tractors.
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