Jeff Bezos Net Worth

Jeff Bezos Net Worth: Jeff Preston Bezos is an American entrepreneur who is the founder, CEO, and president of the world’s successful online marketplace Amazon. Jeff Bezos is the world’s wealthiest man with a net worth of $131 billion as of 2109 (according to Forbes list of billionaires) crossing Bill Gates (Founder of Microsoft) who has a net worth of $105.4 billion. Bill gates have held the title of World’s richest person for 12 years from 2001 to 2017, and he would still have been the number one wealthiest person if he had not donated $35.8 billion to his foundation

Jeff has earned nearly $6.54 billion a month, more than 1.5 Billion dollars in a week, even more than $215 million in a day, $8.9 million in an hour, $149 thousand in a minute, and $2.4 thousand in a second.

Jeff is the first-ever person in history to achieve $100 billion. Jeff Bezos Net Worth is higher than others.

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Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Divorce:

Being separated for nearly 6 months, Jeff signed a divorce from his wife Mackenzie Bezos after 25 successful years of their marriage. With a worth of $38 billion his wife, Mackenzie is going to receive 4% of the company’s share. After settlements, she is going to be the 4^th richest woman according to Bloomberg ranking.

After divorce, Jeff maintains the complete ownership of The Washington Post and Space Exploration startup blue origin and his ex-wife has given 75% of her Amazon stocks and voting control to him.

Mackenzie has signed a giving pledge in May promising to donate her wealth for good purposes.

Jeff Bezos Life:

Jeff Preston Bezos was born on 12 January 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. At the time of his birth, Jeff’s mother, Jacklyn Gise Jorgensen become a 17-year-old excessive school pupil and his father was a motorbike store owner. In 1968 she married Mike Bezos after giving divorce to his previous husband Ted.

Bezos attended River Oaks Elementary school from 4^th to 6^th grade. Bezos had always shown an interest in science. He made an electric alarm to hold his siblings out of his room.

In 1986, He graduated from Princeton University with a grade average of 4. 2 with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and computer science.  After graduating, he started operating Fitel, a fintech telecommunication startup. From 1988 to 1990, he worked as a product manager at Banker’s trust.

Career:

From 1990 to 1994, he worked at D. E. Shaw & Co, a hedge fund.  In 1993, his mind struck with the idea of starting an online book store. So he founded Amazon on July 5, 1994. Its initial name was Cadabra which he later changed to Amazon.

His parents were shocked at the first time that he would give up his job for selling books online but soon they started to believe in his cause and invested about $300,000 in Amazon. It was the amount that would be equal to $30 billion according to Today’s rates.

Amazon made its first public offering on 15 May 1997. The online market which started by selling books online now covers a wide variety of consumer products, electronics, and digital media.

In 1998, he invested $250,000 in google that gave him about $3.3 million shares of Google stock and it’s worth about $3.1 billion in 2017.

In September 2000, Benzos-based Blue Origin space travel Startup Company. On 5^th August 2013, he purchased The Washington Post for $250 million.  In 2018, Amazon got a total of $230 billion in revenue and a net profit of $10 billion

Jeff Bezos net worth according to each year is as follows:

Jeff Bezos Net Worth 2020:

Jeff Bezos net worth is 131 billion dollars as of 2020.