Jeff Bezos founded e-commerce colossus Amazon in 1994 out of his garage in Seattle. He runs it as CEO and owns an 11.1% stake.
Between March and April 2020, amid the pandemic, Amazon said it hired 175,000 additional workers.
In April 2020, Bezos said he would give $100 million to Feed America, a nonprofit that operates food banks and food pantries across the country.
Amazon has faced criticism from U.S. senators and the general public for its treatment of warehouse workers during the coronavirus pandemic.
He divorced his wife MacKenzie in 2019 after 25 years of marriage and transferred a quarter of his Amazon stake to her.
In 2019, Amazon notched $280.5 billion in revenues and a record $11.5 billion in net profit.
Bezos owns The Washington Post and Blue Origin, an aerospace company that is developing rockets for commercial use.
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STATS
AGE56
SOURCE OF WEALTHAmazon, Self Made
SELF-MADE SCORE8
PHILANTHROPY SCORE2
RESIDENCESeattle, Washington
CITIZENSHIPUnited States
MARITAL STATUSIn Relationship
CHILDREN4
EDUCATIONBachelor of Arts/Science, Princeton University
DID YOU KNOW
Growing up, Jeff Bezos worked summers on his grandfather's ranch repairing Caterpillar tractors.
Bezos met Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 and managed to become one of the company's first angel investors, putting in $250,000.
NET WORTH OVER TIME
$47B
Forbes 400September 2015
I didn't think I'd regret trying and failing. And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all.
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