Jeffrey Preston Bezos (/ ˈbeɪzoʊs / BAY-zohss; [2] né Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company.

Sep 25, 2022 · The story is this – in 1998 when Larry Page’s and Sergey Brin’s Google offices were a Menlo Park, California garage – Bezos invested $250,000 of personal funds into the fledgling search engine in a $1 million follow-on investment round.

Nov 27, 2023 · In 1998, four years after launching Amazon, Bezos invested in a small search engine startup operating out of a garage in Menlo Park, California. This startup, nurtured by the genius of Larry Page...

May 22, 2024 · Jeff Bezos was among the earliest investors of Google. The Amazon founder made a $250,000 investment in Google because he loved Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

Jan 20, 2025 · The world’s three wealthiest people attended multiple inauguration morning events: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (worth $239.4 billion according to Forbes’ estimates), Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg ...

As of Feb. 21, 2024, Jeff Bezos has a net worth of $191 billion, making him the third-richest person in the world. His fortune eclipses that of Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and...

1 day ago · 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 a bit less than 10% of the company. He...

6 days ago · Jeff Bezos (born January 12, 1964, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.) is an American entrepreneur who played a key role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, Inc., an online merchant of …

Sep 23, 2020 · As Google's market cap soars above $1 trillion, an investment Jeff Bezos made in the then-startup would have been up 20,000% percent today.

Founded in August 2022, Perplexity aims to challenge Google by offering an AI-based search engine that is “part chatbot and part search engine, offering real-time information and footnotes...