BIG THINKERS - Jeff Bezos - S2EPI-130

Jeff Bezos Chairman And Founder, Amazon $147.1B $1.6B (1.11%) Real-Time Net Worth as of 6/2/23#3 in the world today 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 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. Bezos donated more than $400 million worth of stock to nonprofits in 2022, though it's unclear which organizations received those shares. 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.