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Stage Name: Jeff Bezos
Real Name: Jeffrey Preston Bezos
Occupation: Entrepreneur, Media Proprietor, Investor, Computer Engineer
Date Of Birth/Age: January 12, 1964 (58) Years Old
Place of Birth: Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.
Gender: Male
Nationality: American
Marital Status: Married
Education:
- River Oaks Elementary School
- Miami Palmetto Senior High School
- Princeton University
Height: 1.71 m
Net Worth: $150B
Jeff Bezos Biography
Jeffrey Preston Bezos, born on January 12, 1964, is a prominent American businessman, media magnate, and investor. He is renowned as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world’s largest e-commerce and cloud computing company. Bezos held the title of the world’s richest person from 2017 to 2021, according to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes.
In 2000, Bezos founded Blue Origin, a company providing suborbital spaceflight services and involved in aerospace manufacturing. Additionally, he acquired The Washington Post, a significant American newspaper, for $250 million in 2013. Bezos also manages various other assets through his venture capital organization, Bezos Expeditions. In September 2021, he co-founded the biotechnology firm Altos Labs with Yuri Milner, the creator of Mail.ru. On July 5, 2021, Bezos transitioned from being Amazon’s CEO and president to its executive chairman.
Family
Parents: Bezos was born to Jacklyn and Ted Jorgensen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Jacklyn was only 17 years old and a high school student when she gave birth to Bezos. Ted Bezos was the owner of a bicycle business in the city. After their divorce in 1965, Jacklyn fell in love with Miguel “Mike” Bezos, and when her son was four, she and Mike joined Bezos in Houston. They asked him to adopt her son, and Mike agreed, giving Bezos his last name. Mike, an immigrant from a Cuban family, worked as an engineer for Exxon. In 1995, Bezos introduced his parents to the concept of Amazon, and they lent him $245,573 to start the business, which turned into $1 trillion by 2021.
Siblings: Mark and Christina are Bezos’s siblings. Mark, born approximately four years after Jeff, became a successful businessman. He currently serves on the board of directors for the Leary Firefighters Foundation in New York. He also oversees the Bezos Family Foundation. Compared to her brothers, Christina Bezos-Poore keeps a more private life. She was reportedly born in 1969 and married Stephen S. Poore in 1995.
Children: Despite being one of the world’s wealthiest individuals, Jeff Bezos prefers to keep his children’s lives private. He shares four children, including three sons and a daughter, with his ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott. Only his oldest son, Preston, has a publicly known name, born around the year 2000. The names and birth years of the three younger children remain undisclosed, and there is uncertainty surrounding the adoption date of Bezos and Scott’s daughter from China.
Wife: MacKenzie Scott, born on April 7, 1970, is an American novelist and philanthropist with a net worth of $27 billion as of December 2022, largely due to her 4% share in Amazon, the company founded by her ex-husband, Jeff Bezos. Scott is the third-wealthiest woman in the United States and the 47th-wealthiest person globally. As a signatory of the Giving Pledge, Scott has pledged to donate at least half of her wealth to charity and had contributed over $14 billion to more than 1600 nonprofit organizations by mid-December 2022. Bezos and Scott announced their separation in 2019 after 25 years of marriage but continue to co-parent. Jeff Bezos is now engaged to news anchor Lauren Sánchez.
Lifestyle
Net Worth: As of July 2023, Jeff Bezos ranks as the third-wealthiest person globally, with a net worth of $150 billion. He held the title of the world’s richest person from 2017 to 2021, according to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes.
Cars: Reportedly, Jeff Bezos owns a fleet of expensive vehicles, including a $41 million Dassault Falcon 900 EX private jet, a $3 million Ferrari Pininfarina Sergio, a $3.4 million Bugatti Veyron Mansory, a $4 million W Motors Lykan Hypersport, a $4.8 million Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita, and a $5 million Lamborghini Veneno.
House: In the Medina neighborhood, Jeff Bezos owns two properties, with the first covering approximately 1,900 square meters and the second about 800 square meters. These homes, purchased for $10 million, underwent $28 million in renovations in 2010. Bezos also owns a residence in Beverly Hills, California, which he acquired for $24 million in 2007 and later invested an additional $13 million in a nearby 4-bedroom home. Furthermore, he purchased a $23 million building in Kalorama, Washington, two years ago, a historic property that formerly housed a textile museum.
Businesses: While Amazon is Bezos’s most prominent business venture, accounting for 16% of his revenue, he has a diverse portfolio of other businesses. These include Whole Foods, Audible, IMDb, Goodreads, Alexa, The Washington Post, Blue Origin, Amazon Robotics, Zappos, DPReview, Twitch, Woot.com, Fabric.com, AWS Elemental, and Souq.com.
Education: Jeff Bezos attended River Oaks Elementary School from fourth through sixth grade, after which his family relocated to Florida. He continued his education at Miami Palmetto Senior High School, where he excelled in his studies and developed a growing interest in computers. Bezos eventually graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with a degree in computer science and electrical engineering.
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