Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle reached space in 2015 and afterwards successfully landed back on Earth. It is currently the world's largest online sales company, the largest Internet company by revenue, and the largest provider of virtual assistants and cloud infrastructure services through its Amazon Web Services branch.īezos founded the aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company Blue Origin in 2000. The company began as an online bookstore and has since expanded to a variety of other e-commerce products and services, including video and audio streaming, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Bezos founded Amazon in late 1994 on a road trip from New York City to Seattle. He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields from 1986 to early 1994. He holds a degree in electrical engineering and computer science. īorn in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and Miami, Bezos graduated from Princeton University in 1986. With a net worth of around US$139 billion as of October 2022, Bezos is the third-wealthiest person in the world and was the wealthiest from 2017 to 2021 according to both Bloomberg's Billionaires Index and Forbes. He is the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon. Jeffrey Preston Bezos ( / ˈ b eɪ z oʊ s/ BAY-zohss né Jorgensen born January 12, 1964) is an American entrepreneur, media proprietor, investor, computer engineer, and commercial astronaut.

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