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Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos
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Bezos at the ENCORE awards in 2011
Born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen
(1964-01-12) January 12, 1964 (age 53)
Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.
Residence Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Nationality American
Education Princeton University (B.S.E)
Occupation Founder, Chairman & CEO of Amazon.com
Salary $100,000
Net worth Increase US$72.3 billion (February 13, 2017)
Spouse(s) MacKenzie Bezos (m. 1993)
Children 4

Jeff Bezos (/ˈbzs/; born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen; January 12, 1964) is an American technology and retail entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, which has become the world's largest online shopping retailer. The company began as an Internet merchant of books and expanded to a wide variety of products and services, most recently video streaming and audio streaming. Amazon.com is currently the world's largest Internet sales company on the World Wide Web.

Bezos' other diversified business interests include aerospace and newspapers. He is the founder and manufacturer of Blue Origin (founded in 2000) with test flights to space beginning in 2015, and plans for commercial suborbital human spaceflight beginning in 2018. In 2013, Bezos purchased The Washington Post newspaper. A number of other business investments are managed through Bezos Expeditions.

Bezos currently ranks as the 5th richest person in the world (excluding royalty and dictators), with an estimated net worth of US$71.8 billion as of January 2017, just behind fellow Americans, investment mogul Warren Buffett in third, and Bill Gates in first.

Bezos was born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen to Jacklyn (née Gise) and Ted Jorgensen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His maternal ancestors were settlers who lived in Texas, and over the generations acquired a 25,000-acre (101 km2 or 39 miles2) ranch near Cotulla. As of March 2015, Bezos was among the largest landholders in Texas. Bezos' maternal grandfather was a regional director of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in Albuquerque. He retired early to the ranch, where Bezos spent many summers as a youth, working with him. At an early age, he displayed mechanical aptitude – as a toddler, he even dismantled his crib with a screwdriver.


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