Jeffrey Preston Bezos (/'beIzoUsor BAY-zohss/;[2] not ne Jorgensen born on 12 January 1964) is an American media owner, entrepreneur investor, as well as a commercial astronaut. Bezos is the co-founder, executive chairman, and the former chief executive officer and president of Amazon. With an estimated net value of US$109.3 billion in January 20, 2023. Bezos is the fifth richest person in the world and was the most wealthy from 2017 until 2021 according to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index and Forbes.Born in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and Miami, Bezos graduated from Princeton University in 1986. He has a degree both in electrical and computer science engineering. He was employed in Wall Street in a variety of related fields between 1986 and the beginning of 1994. Bezos founded Amazon in late 1994, during a journey between New York City and Seattle. It began as an online bookshop and has since expanded to include a variety of other e-commerce products and services, such as audio and video streaming cloud computing, as well as artificial intelligence. It is the world's biggest online sales company and the biggest Internet company in terms of revenue and the most renowned provider of virtual assistants as well as cloud infrastructure services through its Amazon Web Services branch.Bezos founded the aerospace manufacturing company and suborbital spaceflight company Blue Origin in 2000. Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle travelled into space in 2015 and afterwards successfully landed back on Earth. The company also acquired the leading American paper The Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million. He also manages many other investments through his venture capital company, Bezos Expeditions. In September 2021, Bezos co-founded biotechnology company Altos Labs with Mail.ru founder Yuri Milner.
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