Jeffrey Preston Bezos (/ˈbeɪzoʊs/Cove zohss;[2] né Jorgensen; conceived January 12, 1964) is an American business visionary, media owner, financial backer, PC specialist, and business astronaut.[3][4] He is the pioneer, chief director, and previous president and President of Amazon. With a total assets of around US$139 billion as of October 2022, Bezos is the third-most well off individual on the planet and was the richest from 2017 to 2021 as indicated by the two Bloomberg's Tycoons List and Forbes.[5][6]
Brought into the world in Albuquerque and brought up in Houston and Miami, Bezos moved on from Princeton College in 1986. He holds a degree in electrical designing and software engineering. He dealt with Money Road in various related fields from 1986 to mid 1994. Bezos established Amazon in late 1994 on an excursion from New York City to Seattle. The organization started as a web-based book shop and has since extended to an assortment of other online business items and administrations, including video and sound real time, distributed computing, and man-made brainpower. It is presently the world's biggest internet based deals organization, the biggest Web organization by income, and the biggest supplier of menial helpers and cloud framework administrations through its Amazon Web Administrations branch.
Bezos established the aviation maker and sub-orbital spaceflight administrations organization Blue Beginning in 2000. Blue Beginning's New Shepard vehicle arrived at space in 2015 and a short time later effectively arrived back on The planet. He additionally bought the significant American paper The Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million and oversees numerous different speculations through his funding firm, Bezos Endeavors. In September 2021, Bezos helped to establish biotechnology organization Altos Labs with Mail.ru pioneer Yuri Milner.[7]
The first centibillionaire on the Forbes abundance index,[8] Bezos was named the "most extravagant man in present day history" after his total assets expanded to $150 billion in July 2018.[9] In August 2020, as per Forbes, he had a total assets surpassing $200 billion.[10] In 2020 during the Coronavirus pandemic, his abundance developed by roughly $24 billion.[11] On July 5, 2021, Bezos ventured down as the President and Leader of Amazon and moved to the job of leader executive; Andy Jassy, the head of Amazon's distributed computing division,[12][13] supplanted Bezos as the Chief and Leader of Amazon. On July 20, 2021, he traveled to space close by his half-brother,[1] Mark.[14] The suborbital flight endured north of 10 minutes, arriving at a pinnacle elevation of 66.5 miles (107.0 km).[15] In September 2022, he was positioned second on the Forbes 400 rundown of most well off Americans with a total assets of $151 billion.