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Jeff Bezos
Chairman And Founder, Amazon
Net worth $197.8B
Jeff Bezos,
the visionary behind Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, founded the
company in 1994 from his Seattle garage.
Bezos transitioned from CEO to executive chairman in 2021, holding just under a 10% ownership stake in the company.
Following his
divorce from his wife MacKenzie in 2019 after 25 years of marriage, Bezos
transferred a quarter of his then-16% Amazon stake to her.
Bezos
contributed over $1.1 million worth of stock to nonprofits in 2023, although
the specific organizations that received these shares are undisclosed.
In addition to
Amazon, Bezos owns The Washington Post and Blue Origin, an aerospace company
pioneering rocket development; he embarked on a brief journey to space aboard
one of its rockets in July 2021.
Bezos
expressed in a November 2022 interview with CNN his intention to donate the
majority of his wealth during his lifetime, without providing precise details.
In 1998, Bezos
crossed paths with Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and emerged as
one of the company's early angel investors, injecting an estimated $250,000
into the venture.
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