In September 2021, Bezos co-founded biotechnology company Altos Labs with founder Yuri Milner. 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 company began commercial suborbital human spaceflight, and did two successful human spaceflights in 2021. Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle reached space in 2015, and afterwards successfully landed back on Earth. 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.īezos founded the aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company Blue Origin in 2000. 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.
Bezos founded Amazon in late 1994, on a cross-country road trip from New York City to Seattle. He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields from 1986 to early 1994. He holds a degree in electrical engineering and computer science. īorn in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and Miami, Bezos graduated from Princeton University in 1986.
With a net worth of around US$200 billion as of December 2021, he is the second-wealthiest person in the world according to both Forbes and Bloomberg's Billionaires Index. He is the founder and executive chairman of Amazon, where he previously served as the president and CEO. Jeffrey Preston Bezos ( / ˈ b eɪ z oʊ s/ BAY-zohss né Jorgensen born January 12, 1964) is an American entrepreneur, media proprietor, investor, computer engineer, and commercial astronaut.
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