Tag: Jeffrey Preston Bezos Jorgensen

Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American businessman, philanthropist, and investor. His birth name is Jeffrey Preston Bezos Jorgensen and born on January 12, 1964. He is the CEO, president, founder, and Amazon.com, Inc. Jeffrey Bezos on July 5, 1994, founded Amazon, and Amazon is the source his most of his wealth. As of 2024, Jeff Bezos’s Net Worth is $183 billion USD.

He was born in Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen, Albuquerque. His parent’s name is Jacklyn Gise Jorgensen and Ted Jorgensen. When he is born, his mother’s age was 17-year-old and she is studying in high school.

Personal Information:

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Birth Name Jeffrey Preston Bezos Jorgensen
NickName Jeff Bezos
Age 57 years
Date of Birth January 12, 1964
Gender Male
Birth Place Albuquerque
Marital Status: Divorced
Children 4
Spouse: MacKenzie Tuttle
Nationality American
Hair Color Blonde
Citizen: United States
Education: Bachelor of Arts/Science, Princeton University
Eye Color Brown
Ethnicity American
Height 5 feet 6 inches
Birth Sign N/A
Source of Wealth: Amazon, Self-made
Jeff Bezos Net Worth ‎$112.1 billion

His father Jacklyn Gise Jorgensen was a bike shop owner. When his mother divorced, after some time she married in April 1968 with Cuban immigrant Miguel “Mike” Bezos. Soon after the marriage, Mike accepted four-year-old Jorgensen, whose first name was then transformed to Bezos.

Mike moved to Houston with his family where he worked as an engineer for Exxon when he gets his degree from the New Mexico University. Therefore, Bezos joined the Elementary School of River Oaks in Houston from 4th to 6th grade.

Early Life

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Jeff Bezos was born on January 12, 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and raised up in Houston, Texas. Furthermore, he completed his graduation from Princeton University in the year of 1986. He graduated with electrical engineering degrees and computer science. After that, he operated on Wall Street in a different associated field from 1986 to early 1994.

Jeffrey Preston Bezos has presented jobs at Bell Labs, Intel, and Andersen Consulting, several others. At the start he worked at Fitel, Fitel is a fin-tech telecommunications start-up, where he worked to build a network for worldwide trade. After that task, Bezos was encouraged by the director of customer service and head of development.

He gets into the banking industry from 1988 to 1990, when he turns out to be a product manager at Bankers Trust. He worked for four years from 1990 to 1994 in D. E. Shaw and Co, a freshly created hedge fund with a solid emphasis on mathematical modeling. Also, at the age of 30 Bezos become the fourth senior vice president in D. E. Shaw’s. At the end of 1994, he created the online seller Amazon in New York on a cross-country road trip from City to Seattle.

Furthermore, At the start, Amazon started as an online bookstore and after some time they have lengthened to an extensive variety of other products of e-commerce and services, as well as audio and video streaming, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing.

At that time, they are the world’s largest company in the market that deals online sales, and they are the largest company by revenue on the internet, including the world’s largest AI support provider and cloud set-up services through its Amazon Web Services arm.

Amazon

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In 1993, Bezos decided to develop an online bookstore. Before this, He was doing a job then before after the decision of the online Bookstore, he left his job at D. E. Shaw. He established an Amazon in his shop on July 5, 1994, after inscription it’s business plan cross-country determination from New York to Seattle. Bezos gave his new company the name Cadabra.

Then, he changed the name from Cadabra to Amazon after the Amazon River in South America. Because, the name starts with the letter A, which is at the beginning of the alphabet. He accepted $300,000 from his parents and then he invested that money in Amazon. He warned many times investors that there is a 70% chance that Amazon might deteriorate or go decline. Though, Amazon was actually an online bookstore. Bezos many times planned to enlarge to other products.

Three years later after the establishment of Amazon, Bezos took it publicly with the initial public offering (IPO).  After critical reports from Fortune and Barron, Bezos sustained that the progress of the Internet will surpass competition from large book retailers such as Barnes & Noble and Borders. Bezos win the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal for his work with Amazon in 2016.

How Much is Jeff Bezos’s Net Worth?

Jeff Bezos is the richest individual person in the world. Jeff Bezos has a Net Worth of $110 billion. And as the CEO of Amazon is $3 billion wealthier than Bill Gates who is the next-richest person in the world, that is stated according to the index of Bloomberg Billionaires. As of 2024, Jeff Bezos’s Net Worth is $183 billion USD.

Year Net Worth
2019 $112.1 billion
2018 $123 billion
2017 $110 billion

Social Media Links

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Jeff Bezos’s Instagram followers are 4 million. Jeff Bezos’s Twitter handle has 6.2 million followers. Jeffrey Preston Bezos is a very popular personality on social media and has personally shared his photos and videos on social media sites to engage his fans. Also, Jeff Bezos Height is 5’’6’. Here are some social media links available that follow Jeff Bezos. Also, Jeff Bezos Age is 59 years old.

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