Jeffrey Preston Bezos (/ˈbeɪzoʊs/BAY-zones; né Jorgensen; conceived January 12, 1964) is an American businessperson, media owner, financial backer, PC designer, and business astronaut. He is the organizer and leader executive of Amazon, where he recently filled in as the president and CEO. With total assets of US$169.9 billion as of January 31, 2022, Bezos is the third most extravagant individual on the planet as per Forbes.
Brought into the world in Albuquerque and brought up in Houston and Miami, Bezos moved on from Princeton University in 1986. He holds a degree in electrical designing and software engineering. He dealt with Wall Street in an assortment of related fields from 1986 to mid-1994. Bezos established Amazon in late 1994, on a cross-country excursion from New York City to Seattle. The organization started as an internet-based book shop and has since extended to a wide assortment of other web-based business items and administrations, including video and sound web-based, distributed computing, and man-made reasoning. It is at present the world's biggest web-based deals organization, the biggest Internet organization by income, and the world's biggest supplier of virtual assistants and cloud framework administrations through its Amazon Web Services branch.
Bezos established the aviation producer and sub-orbital spaceflight administrations organization Blue Origin in 2000. Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle arrived at space in 2015, and thereafter effectively arrived back on Earth. The organization finished the primary business suborbital human spaceflight in July 2021. He likewise bought the significant American paper The Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million and oversees numerous different speculations through his funding firm, Bezos Expeditions. In September 2021, Bezos helped to establish biotechnology organization Altos Labs with Mail.ru organizer Yuri Milner.
The first centibillionaire on the Forbes abundance index, Bezos was named the "most extravagant man in current history" after his total assets expanded to $150 billion in July 2018. In August 2020, as indicated by Forbes, he had total assets surpassing $200 billion. In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, his abundance developed by roughly $24 billion.On July 5, 2021, Bezos ventured down as the CEO of Amazon and changed into the job of leader executive; Andy Jassy, the head of Amazon's distributed computing division, supplanted Bezos as the CEO of Amazon. On July 20, 2021, he traveled to space close by his sibling Mark. The suborbital flight kept going north for 10 minutes, arriving at a pinnacle height of 66.5 miles (107.0 km).
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