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PROFILE
Jeff Bezos
Chairman and Founder, Amazon
$234.9B
$2.1B (0.88%)
Real Time Net Worth
as of 6/30/25
#4 in the world todayReflects change since 5 pm ET of prior trading day.
Photo by Carlos Eric Lopez
From the Editor
- 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 9% 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.
- In 2020, Bezos committed to donate $10 billion to climate causes by 2030 through his Bezos Earth Fund; he has granted $2 billion so far.
- 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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Personal Stats
- Age
- 61
- Source of Wealth
- Amazon, Self Made
- Residence
- Miami, Florida
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital Status
- Engaged
- Children
- 4
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Princeton University
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In Their Own Words
I didn't think I'd regret trying and failing. And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all.
Jeff Bezos
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