1. Jeff Bezos - Wikipedia

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    Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. Bezos is the founder and CEO of the multi-national technology company Amazon. With a net worth of more than $190 billion as of June 2021, he is the richest person in the world according to both Forbes and Bloomberg's Billionaires Index. Born in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and later Miami…

    Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. Bezos is the founder and CEO of the multi-national technology company Amazon. With a net worth of more than $190 billion as of June 2021, he is the richest person in the world according to both Forbes and Bloomberg's Billionaires Index. Born in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and later Miami, Bezos graduated from Princeton University in 1986. He holds a degree 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 late 1994, on a cross-country road trip from New York City to Seattle. The company began as an online bookstore and has since expanded to a wide variety of other e-commerce products and services, including video and audio streaming, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. It is currently the world's largest online sales company, the largest Internet company by revenue, and the world's largest provider of virtual assistants and cloud infrastructure services through its Amazon Web Services branch. 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. The company has upcoming plans to begin commercial suborbital human spaceflight. He also 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. The first centibillionaire on the Forbes wealth index, Bezos was named the "richest man in modern history" after his net worth increased to $150 billion in July 2018. In August 2020, according to Forbes, he had a net worth exceeding $200 billion. In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, Bezos's wealth grew by approxim…

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    Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on January 12, 1964, the son of Jacklyn (née Gise) and Theodore Jørgensen. His biological great-grandfather John Jørgensen, born 8 January 1872 on the small island of Samsø, then in Holbæk County, Zealand, today a municipality in the Central Denmark Region, Denmark, immigrated around 1900 to

    Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on January 12, 1964, the son of Jacklyn (née Gise) and Theodore Jørgensen. His biological great-grandfather John Jørgensen, born 8 January 1872 on the small island of Samsø, then in Holbæk County, Zealand, today a municipality in the Central Denmark Region, Denmark, immigrated around 1900 to Chicago, where he had a son, Theodore "Ted" John Jorgensen (b. 1917) with his wife, Ida Minnie Jorgensen, who was also born in Denmark. This son was the father of Ted Jorgensen (b. 1944), Jeff Bezos' biological father. At the time of his birth, his mother was a 17-year-old high school student and his father was 19. After completing high school despite challenging conditions, Jacklyn attended night school while bringing baby Jeff along. After his parents divorced, his mother married Cuban immigrant Miguel "Mike" Bezos in April 1968. Shortly after the wedding, Mike adopted four-year-old Jorgensen, whose surname was then changed to Bezos.

    After Mike had received his degree from the University of New Mexico, the family moved to Houston, Texas, where Mike began working as an engineer for Exxon. Jeff Bezos attended River Oaks Elementary School in Houston from fourth to sixth grade. Bezos's maternal grandfather was Lawrence Preston Gise, a regional director of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in Albuquerque. Gise retired early to his family's ranch near Cotulla, Texas, where Bezos would spend many summers in his youth. Bezos would later purchase this ranch and expand it from 25,000 acres (10,117 ha) to 300,000 acres (121,406 ha). His maternal grandmother was Mattie Louise Gise (née Strait), through whom he is a cousin of country singer George Strait.

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  2. Jeff Bezos - Forbes

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    Jun 28, 2021 · Jeff Bezos founded e-commerce giant Amazon in 1994 out of his garage in Seattle. He will step down as CEO to become executive chairman in July 2021. Amazon thrived during the pandemic; revenues in ...

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  5. Jeff Bezos | Biography, Amazon, & Facts | Britannica

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    May 06, 2021 · Jeff Bezos, American entrepreneur who played a key role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and chief executive officer of the online retailer Amazon.com. Under his guidance, Amazon became the largest retailer on the World Wide …

  6. Jeff Bezos is going to space for 11 minutes. Here's how ...

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    Jun 10, 2021 · Jeff Bezos can have anything. He could circle the globe in a private jet or sail it forever in a fleet of megayachts. He could afford to buy a the whole NFL; he could buy an archipelago for his ...

  7. Jeff Bezos to fly on Blue Origin first passenger flight in ...

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    Jun 07, 2021 · Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger flight of his space company Blue Origin, which the company plans to launch on July 20, the billionaire announced Monday. "I want to …

  8. Jeff Bezos' superyacht is so big it needs its own yacht - CNN

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    May 11, 2021 · New York (CNN Business)Today in ultra-billionaire news, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has purchased a modest 100-foot schooner as he looks forward to a quieter life and hours of reflection on the open ...