American technology and retail entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist and founder and chief executive officer of Amazon, Jeff Bezos has an estimated net worth of $90.2 billion.
Born on January 12, 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Bezos had an early love of computers and studied computer science and electrical engineering at Princeton University.
How did he make his billions?
Bezos graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University with Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degrees in electrical engineering and computer science. While at Princeton, he was also elected to Tau Beta Pi. He served as the president of the Princeton chapter of the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space.
After graduation he worked on Wall Street in the computer science field. He then worked on building a network for international trade for a company known as Fitel. He next worked at Bankers Trust.
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In 1990, Bezoz became the youngest senior vice president at the investment firm D.E. Shaw.
Four years later, he quit his lucrative job to open Amazon.com, a virtual bookstore that became one of the internet’s biggest success stories. 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.
The initial success of the company was meteoric. With no press promotion, Amazon.com sold books across the United States and in 45 foreign countries within 30 days. In two months, sales reached $20,000 a week, growing faster than Bezos and his start-up team had envisioned.
Amazon.com is currently the world’s largest Internet sales company on the World Wide Web, as well as the world’s largest provider of cloud infrastructure services, through its Amazon Web Services arm
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He is also the founder and manufacturer of Blue Origin (founded in 2000) with test flights to space which started in 2015, and plans for commercial suborbital human spaceflight beginning in 2018. In 2013, Bezos purchased The Washington Post in a $250 million deal.A number of other business investments are managed through Bezos Expeditions.
