World's Most Richest Man by Forbes

Jeff Bezos

Amazon C.E.O and Founder 

REAL TIME NET WORTH

$134.1B

as of 2/15/19

2018 BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH

$112B

as of 3/6/18

Growing up, Jeff Bezos worked summers on his grandfather's ranch repairing Caterpillar tractors he started the journey of Amazon in 1994.

Bezos met Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 and managed to become one of the company's first angel investors, putting in $250,000.

Some fact about the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos

• Amazon's chief Jeff Bezos is the first person with a net worth surpassing $150 billion in the 3 decades that Forbes has tracked the richest Americans.
• He owns 16% of e-commerce colossus Amazon, which he founded in a garage in Seattle in 1994.
• Bezos attended Princeton and worked at a hedge fund before quitting to sell books online.
• His other passion is space travel: His aerospace company, Blue Origin, is developing a reusable rocket that Bezos says will carry passengers.
• Bezos purchased The Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million.
• In Sept. 2018 he announced the Bezos Day One Fund, a $2 billion pledge to help homeless families and create Montessori-inspired preschools in the U.S.

STATS

AGE55

SOURCE OF WEALTHAmazon, Self Made

SELF-MADE SCORE8

RESIDENCESeattle, Washington

CITIZENSHIPUnited States

MARITAL STATUSSeparated

CHILDREN4

EDUCATIONBachelor of Arts/Science, Princeton University