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Jeff Bezos
Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American businessman, and the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes, he was the world's wealthiest person from 2017 to 2021, and in 2026, his net worth was approximately US$284 billion.
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business · American businessman (born 1964) · computer scientist · entrepreneur · commercial astronaut · business oligarch · programmer · also Jeff Bezos, Jeffrey Jorgensen, Jeff Jorgensen, Bezos
Born 12 January 1964 · Q312556
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2026· 58 entries
infobae.com: Jeff Bezos se presentó ante los tribunales de Miami para cumplir con su deber de jurado
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Cuba en Miami: Jeff Bezos reaparece en Corte de Miami-Dade en plena crisis por el accidente del avión de Amazon
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CiberCuba: Jeff Bezos se presenta para servir como jurado en Miami-Dade
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: How much money did MacKenzie Scott receive in her 2019 divorce from Jeff Bezos?
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facebook.com: Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was at a Miami-Dade courthouse Monday for jury duty.
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WPLG Local 10: Captan al fundador de Amazon, Jeff Bezos, presentándose para servir como jurado en Miami
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Noticias del Vino: Jeff Bezos y el vículo con Villafrechós: el pueblo de Valladolid que esconde el origen de su fortuna
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Forbes Colombia: Michael Dell supera a Jeff Bezos como el tercer multimillonario más rico
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WSVN 7News: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos spotted at Miami-Dade courthouse for jury duty
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Yahoo: Jeff Bezos Leaves Jury Duty, Stays Mum on Deadly Amazon Plane Crash
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Miami Herald: Even billionaire Jeff Bezos has to report for jury duty in Miami
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Rediff: What Was Amazon's Jeff Bezos Doing At The US Open?
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WPLG Local 10: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos spotted reporting for jury duty in Miami
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reddeperiodistas.com: Jeff Bezos los despidió. Ellos se unen y crean un nuevo periódico
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The Times of India: When Jeff Bezos told Mayor Zohran Mamdani: Villain strategy won’t work, Citadel CEO Ken Griffin is not hu
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LatinUS: Jeff Bezos y ‘Hollywood’ presentes en la Final varonil del US Open: Pierce Brosnan, Emily Blunt, Courteney Cox y Rami Malek, entre otros
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Deadline: U.S. Open Photos: Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sanchez Bezos, Brad Pitt, Katie Holmes & Many More
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YouTube: Bernie Effortlessly Dismantles Jeff Bezos' Phony Public Persona
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Forbes Argentina: Una puerta, una silla vacía y una lección de management: cómo Jeff Bezos construyó la cultura de Amazon
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Yahoo Sports: FSG to sell Liverpool to Jeff Bezos 'in the next 12 months' - Finance Guru
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NEWS.am STYLE: What Do Jeff Bezos, Shakespeare and Genghis Khan Have in Common?
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Stocktwits: Jeff Bezos Backs Elon Musk's 'Very Realistic' Plan For Space-Based Data Centers Ahead Of SpaceX IPO
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mashable.com: Jeff Bezos' space launch inspired lots of memes and dick jokes
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benzinga.com: Jeff Bezos Admitted He Was 'Nerdy' After Showing Off His Watch That Updated 36 Times a Day — Now He's Hel
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The Times of India: Quote of the day by Jeff Bezos: “I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One
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Infobae: Jeff Bezos compra una parte del Liverpool: cuál será su papel en el equipo de la Premier League
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Forbes España: Jeff Bezos entra en el Liverpool FC con una participación minoritaria junto a otros multimillonarios
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WhoWhatWhy: Zohran Mamdani Wants Jeff Bezos to Employ His Gig Workers
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TUDN: Liverpool recibe inversión de Jeff Bezos por más de 2 mil millones de dólares
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rg.org: Jeff Bezos-Backed Group Invests in Liverpool at $7.45B Valuation
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FOX 11 Los Angeles: Jeff Bezos buys stake in Liverpool FC
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La Razón: MacKenzie Scott, exesposa de Jeff Bezos, ya ha contribuido a eliminar 40.000 millones de dólares en deudas médicas en EE UU
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AzerNews: Jeff Bezos-backed group to buy 30% stake in Liverpool for $2.23 billion
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The New York Times: Jeff Bezos consortium hold option to purchase controlling stake in Liverpool per terms of deal - The Athletic
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The New York Times: Why to watch the NFL preseason, plus Jeff Bezos’ first pro sports deal
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The Motley Fool: Jeff Bezos Is Selling $4 Billion of His Amazon Stock. Should You Follow Suit?
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benzinga.com: Jeff Bezos Enters Sports Ownership With Liverpool Stake Valued Above $7 Billion - Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN
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indulgexpress.com: Jeff Bezos buys minority stake in Liverpool FC in £1.65 billion deal
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France 24: Sports - Liverpool announce sale of stake in club to Jeff Bezos-backed consortium
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Goal: Jeff Bezos adquiere una participación minoritaria en el Liverpool en la sorprendente nueva inversión de FSG
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thenationalnews.com: Jeff Bezos-backed consortium buys stake in Liverpool
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Yahoo Sports: Jeff Bezos secures minority stake in Liverpool in shock new FSG investment
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Comercio TV: ¿Jeff Bezos socio del Liverpool FC?: Operación valora al club en $7,100 millones
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Investing.com: Jeff Bezos joins group buying stake in Liverpool Football Club
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Organización Mundial Bullying Sin Fronteras: Liverpool. New owners. Jeff Bezos and 'Edu' Saverin, Facebook co-creator.
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VERSUS - The Future of Football: Jeff Bezos Has Bought a Minority Stake in Liverpool - VERSUS
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El Tiempo: Multimillonario Jeff Bezos y otros grandes inversores adquieren una participación minoritaria en el Liverpool
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Public attention spiked: 120,473 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.9× the usual 30,517, with 0 article edits.
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AAP rated the claim “Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said water should be prioritised for data centres over humans.” False. The quote originates from a satirical social media account..
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Snopes rated the claim “A photo circulating online in 2026 authentically shows a young Zohran Mamdani, New York's mayor, standing with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and tech billionaires Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.” Fake.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “In public remarks at the 2026 VivaTech conference in Paris, Jeff Bezos said water should be used to fuel AI rather than for human consumption” Fake Quote.
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Snopes rated the claim “During a June 2026 interview at VivaTech, a tech conference in Paris, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said human water consumption is limiting the potential of artificial intelligence.” Originated as Satire.
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The Quint rated the claim “Jeff Bezos spoke about prioritising AI over human needs for water.” False.
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Alt News rated the claim “Images showing Mira Nair with Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Clinton, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates along with young Zohran Mamdani” False.
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Bezos is a member of an investment consortium that purchased a minority stake in Liverpool F.C. in August 2026.
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His net worth was approximately US$284 billion
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2025· 13 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “In December 2025, the musician John Legend announced he was pulling his music off of Amazon because of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos' ties with U.S. President Donald Trump.” False.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Dozens of celebrities, with the message "Wake up, Jeff" pulled out of brand collaborations with Amazon over Jeff Bezos' quiet alignment with Donald Trump.” Factory Fakes.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “In December 2025, singer Dolly Parton announced she would pull all her music from Amazon, citing founder Jeff Bezos’ alignment with U.S. President Donald Trump.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “In December 2025, singer Dolly Parton announced she would pull all her music from Amazon, citing founder Jeff Bezos’ alignment with U.S. President Donald Trump.” False.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “In October 2025, golfer Tiger Woods announced he was severing all endorsements and business ties with Amazon due to its founder Jeff Bezos' relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “In October 2025, golfer Tiger Woods announced he was severing all endorsements and business ties with Amazon due to its founder Jeff Bezos' relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “An image showing multiple private jets parked at an airport authentically showed the aircraft of guests who traveled to billionaire Jeff Bezos' 2025 wedding in Venice, Italy.” Miscaptioned.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “An image showing multiple private jets parked at an airport authentically showed the aircraft of guests who traveled to billionaire Jeff Bezos' 2025 wedding in Venice, Italy.” Miscaptioned.
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With the ceremony attracting mainstream media attention and various celebrities
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Snopes rated the claim “A picture authentically depicts journalist Lauren Sánchez, Jeff Bezos' fiancee, with large lips and cheekbones enhanced by plastic surgery.” Fake.
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“s opinion policies to promote”
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Bezos donated $100,000 (equivalent to $150,000 in 2025) towards a movement against a Washington state income tax in 2010 for "top earners".
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“Stefania Arcudi, Bezos: «L’intelligenza artificiale? Una bolla industriale, ma può essere positiva», ilsole24ore.com' ', 3 October 2025”
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2024· 1 entry
Bezos blocked the Washington Post's editorial board from endorsing Kamala Harris in the presidential election
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2023· 5 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour presented by Emmanuel Macron (2023).
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Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (2023).
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“And I do like group invention. I think there's really nothing more fun than sitting at a whiteboard with a group of smart people and spitballing and coming up with new ideas and objections to those ideas, and then solutions to the objections and going back and forth.”
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Sánchez and Bezos became engaged in May 2023.
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“#405 - Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin", on Lex Fridman Podcast, found on DeepCast (14 December 2023)”
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2022· 1 entry
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2021· 11 entries
Launched on the NS-16 mission with his half-brother Mark Bezos, Wally Funk, and Oliver Daemen
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The Pentagon cancelled the JEDI contract with Microsoft, citing that "due to evolving requirements, increased cloud conversancy, and industry advances, the JEDI Cloud contract no longer meets its needs
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Bezos took over the role of executive chairman and stepped down as the CEO and president of Amazon, succeeded by Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy
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Bezos sent an email to all Amazon employees, telling them the transition would give him "the time and energy [he] need[s] to focus on the Day 1 Fund, the Bezos Earth Fund, Blue Origin, The Washington Post, and [his] othe
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Career landmark: sub-orbital spaceflight.
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“Millions are at risk of starving to death — and just .36% of the world's top billionaires' net worth could help fix it, U.N. official says, by Li Cohen, CBS News, October 27, 2021”
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“David Beasley, quoted in Millions are at risk of starving to death — and just .36% of the world's top billionaires' net worth could help fix it, U.N. official says, by Li Cohen, CBS News, October 27, 2021”
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“David Beasley: World's billionaires need to step up to help World Food Program, Matthew Christian, SCNow, Sep 9, 2021”
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“Billionaires blast into space as billions suffer on planet Earth, Deepak Xavier, Oxfam International, (19 July 2021)”
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“Yanis Varoufakis as quoted in Techno-Feudalism and the End of Capitalism – interview with Yanis Varoufakis (17 May 2021)”
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“Bernie Sanders rips into Jeff Bezos: 'You are worth $182 billion ... why are you doing everything in your power to stop your workers' from unionizing?, Annabelle Williams, Business Insider (17 Mar 2021)”
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2020· 2 entries
“Could the Richest Man in the World End World Hunger? Paul Abela, Medium, (24 Jul 2020)”
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“Chris Hedges in The Treason of the Ruling Class. Scheerpost, (2 June 2020)”
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2019· 6 entries
The divorce was finalized, with Bezos keeping 75% of the couple's Amazon stock and MacKenzie getting the remaining 25% ($35
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Bezos's wealth was reduced by the divorce from his wife MacKenzie Bezos
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Bezos was inducted into the Living Legends of Aviation, being awarded with the Jeff Bezos Freedom's Wings Award and the Kenn Ricci Lifetime Aviation Entrepreneur Award
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“Is Amazon Unstoppable? by Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker (10 October 2019)”
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Harvard Business Review, which ranked Bezos the best-performing CEO for 4 years in a row since 2014, did not rank him even in the top 100, citing Amazon's "relatively low ESG (environment, social, and governance) scores"
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“The telescope was an invention, but looking through it at Jupiter, knowing that it had moons was a discovery...It's interesting to me that large language models in their current form are not inventions. They're discoveries.”
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2018· 12 entries
Bezos announced a company-wide wage increase, which Sanders applauded
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Was designated the "wealthiest person in modern history" by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Fortune, MarketWatch, The Wall Street Journal, and Forbes
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Awarded Time 100 (2018).
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Awarded Axel Springer Award (2018).
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Awarded Gerard K. O’Neill Memorial Award (2018).
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Bezos was designated the wealthiest person in the world, with a registered net worth of $112 billion (equivalent to $144,000,000,000 in 2025)
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Amazon reported its highest ever profit with quarterly earnings of $2 billion (equivalent to $2,600,000,000 in 2025)
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Was featured in Amazon's Super Bowl commercial
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More than 400 Washington Post employees wrote an open letter to Bezos criticizing the wages and benefits provided to employees
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It was reported that he met with Amazon investors for just six hours a year
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During a talk at the Economic Club of Washington, D
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2017· 6 entries
(equivalent to $131,000,000,000 in 2025), after Amazon's share price increased by more than 2
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(equivalent to $131,000,000,000 in 2025), and he was formally designated the wealthiest person in the world by Forbes on March 6, 2018, with a net worth of $112 billion (equivalent to $144,000,000,000 in 2025)
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Bezos momentarily became the world's wealthiest person over Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates when his estimated net worth increased to just over $90 billion (equivalent to $118,000,000,000 in 2025)
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Awarded Time 100 (2017).
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And called the $28,446 figure (equivalent to $37,000 in 2025) for its median salary "misleading" as it included part-time workers
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Reported net worth: $93.9B (as of 2017).
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2016· 5 entries
Bezos sold another million of his shares for $756 million (equivalent to $1,000,000,000 in 2025)
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Won The James Smithson Bicentennial Medal (2016).
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The paper was profitable for the first time since Bezos made the purchase in 2013
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Bezos allowed select journalists to visit, tour, and photograph his facility
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“What Amazon's Jeff Bezos thinks about Peter Thiel and Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker (BoingBoing) (dubbed "The Bezos Principle" by Walt Mossberg) June 2016”
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2015· 2 entries
When he sent a memo to employees denouncing a New York Times piece
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Bezos announced that a new orbital launch vehicle was under development and would make its first flight in the late-2010s
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2014· 1 entry
Amazon won a bid for a cloud computing contract with the CIA valued at $600 million (equivalent to $800,000,000 in 2025)
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2013· 6 entries
Bezos announced his purchase of The Washington Post for $250 million in cash (equivalent to $350,000,000 in 2025), at the suggestion of his friend, Don Graham
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And manages many other investments through his venture capital firm, Bezos Expeditions
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Bezos secured a $600-million contract (equivalent to $830,000,000 in 2025) with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on behalf of Amazon Web Services
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Bezos Expeditions funded the recovery of two Saturn V first-stage Rocketdyne F-1 engines from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean
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“Jeff Bezos explains why Amazon doesn’t really care about its competitors 17 September, 2013.”
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“Jeffrey Bezos, Washington Post’s next owner, aims for a new ‘golden era’ at the newspaper. September 2013”
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2012· 3 entries
Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos have supported the legalization of same-sex marriage, and in 2012 contributed $2.5 million (equivalent to $3,500,000 in 2025) to Washington United for Marriage, a group supporting a yes vote on Washington Referendum 74, which affirmed a same-sex marriage law enacted in the state.
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Bezos was named Businessperson of the Year by Fortune
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Donated to Amazon's political action committee (PAC), which has given $56,000 (equivalent to $79,000 in 2025) and $74,500 (equivalent to $104,000 in 2025) to Democrats and Republicans, respectively
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2011· 3 entries
The Economist gave Bezos and Gregg Zehr an Innovation Award for the Amazon Kindle
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Bezos told him that the goal was to create "the Star Trek computer
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His one line consisted of a response to an alien in distress: "Speak Normally." In his initial discussion of the project which became Alexa with his technical advisor Greg Hart in 2011, Bezos told him that the goal was to create "the Star Trek computer." Bezos's family corporation Zefram LLC is named after Zefram Cochrane, a character from Star Trek.
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2004· 24 entries
“La vida es demasiado corta para estar con gente que no tiene recursos». [Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful].”
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“If you have a really good idea, stick to it, but be flexible on how you get there. Be stubborn on your vision but flexible on the details... People who are right a lot change their mind... They have the same data set that they had at the beginning, but they wake up, and they re-analyze things all the time, and they come to a new conclusion, and then they change their mind.”
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“We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient. If you replace ‘customer’ with ‘reader,’ that approach, that point of view, can be successful at The Post, too..”
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“Estamos de fato no "Dia 1" da Internet, e se executarmos bem nosso plano de negócios, será sempre "Dia 1" para a Amazon.com”
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“Daha icat edilmemiş pek çok şey var.”
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“As cartas de Bezos, Stephen Anderson, página 228”
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“Daha gerçekleşecek pek çok yenilik var.”
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“That kind of divine discontent comes from observing customers and noticing that things can always be better.”
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“Creo que tienes que estar dispuesto a que te malinterpreten si quieres innovar». [I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate].”
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“Sonuçta hepimiz, tercihlerimizden ibaretiz.”
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“Hay dos tipos de empresas: las que trabajan para tratar de cobrar más, y las que trabajan para cobrar menos. Nosotros seremos de la segunda clase.”
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“Başarısızlık ve buluş yapma ayrılmaz ikililerdir.”
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“We’re building what’s called a private cloud for them [the C.I.A.], … because they don’t want to be on the public cloud.”
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“The thing I have noticed is when the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. There's something wrong with the way you are measuring it.”
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“İşe yarayacağını biliyorsan, bu bir deneyim olmaz.”
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“Amazon's Jeff Bezos looks to the future - CBS News.”
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“Lo peligroso es no evolucionar». [What's dangerous is not to evolve].”
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“Tutkularınızı siz seçemezsiniz, tutkularınız sizi seçer.”
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“You gotta earn your keep in this world. When you invent something new, if customers come to the party, it’s disruptive to the old way.”
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“Una marca para una empresa es como la reputación de una persona. Se gana reputación intentando hacer bien las cosas difíciles».[A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well].”
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“Yenilik yapmak eleştirilmeyi göze alma cesareti ister.”
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“Hayat donanımsız kişilerle vakit harcamak için çok kısa.”
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“If you absolutely can't tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting.”
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“When it comes to space, I see it as my job to build infrastructure the hard way — I'm using my resources to put in place heavy-lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space. … I want thousands of entrepreneurs doing amazing things in space, and to do that we need to dramatically lower the cost of access to space.”
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2003· 2 entries
Career landmark: accident.
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Amazon rebounded from financial instability and turned a profit of $35 million (equivalent to $61,000,000 in 2025)
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2002· 1 entry
Bezos led Amazon to launch Amazon Web Services, which compiled data from weather channels and website traffic
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2000· 1 entry
And he flew into space on Blue Origin NS-16 in 2021
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1999· 3 entries
Awarded Time Person of the Year (1999).
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Bezos received his first major award when Time named him Person of the Year
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(equivalent to $14,800,000 in 2025); he bought a fourth unit in that building for $5
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1998· 1 entry
Bezos diversified into the online sale of music and video, and by the end of the year he had expanded the company's product offerings to include a variety of other consumer goods
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1997· 1 entry
After raising $54 million (equivalent to $110,000,000 in 2025) through Amazon's initial public offering (IPO)
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1996· 1 entry
Career landmark: chief executive officer (1996–2021).
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1994· 3 entries
After writing its business plan on a cross-country drive from New York City to Seattle
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Moved across the country to Seattle, Washington, where Bezos founded Amazon
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In 1994, they moved across the country to Seattle, Washington, where Bezos founded Amazon.
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1986· 3 entries
Was offered positions at Intel, Bell Labs, and Andersen Consulting, among others
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Studied at Princeton University, Bachelor of Science (1982–1986).
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With a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE), summa cum laude
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1982· 1 entry
Bezos attended Princeton University
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1964· 2 entries
Born 1964-01-12.
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In Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Jacklyn (née Gise; 1946–2025) and Ted Jorgensen (1944–2015)
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