BIG THINKERS - Jeff Bezos - S2EPI-130

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English - June 07, 2023 04:32 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MB
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Jeff Bezos

Chairman And Founder, Amazon

$147.1B

$1.6B (1.11%)

Real-Time Net Worth

as of 6/2/23#3 in the world today

Jeff Bezos founded e-commerce giant Amazon in 1994 out of his Seattle garage.
Bezos stepped down as CEO to become executive chairman in 2021. He owns a bit less than 10% of the company.
He and his wife MacKenzie divorced in 2019 after 25 years of marriage and he transferred a quarter of his then-16% Amazon stake to her.
Bezos donated more than $400 million worth of stock to nonprofits in 2022, though it's unclear which organizations received those shares.
He owns The Washington Post and Blue Origin, an aerospace company developing rockets; he briefly flew to space in one in July 2021.
Bezos said in a November 2022 interview with CNN that he plans to give away the majority of his wealth in his lifetime, without disclosing specific details.

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