Jeff Bezos( Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen) was born on January 12, 1964 is an engineer, American technology and retail entrepreneur and investor who is best known as the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, which is the world's largest online shopping retailer. The company began as an Internet merchant of books and expanded to a wide variety of products and services, most recently video streaming and audio streaming. Amazon.com is currently the world's largest Internet sales company on the World Wide Web.
Bezos’s other diversified business interests include aerospace and newspapers. He is the founder and manufacturer of Blue Origin (founded in 2000) with test flights to space beginning in 2015, and plans for commercial suborbital human spaceflight beginning in 2018. In 2013, Bezos purchased The Washington Post newspaper. A number of other business investments are managed through Bezos Expeditions.
Bezos is currently the 3rd richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$72.8 billion as of March 2017, just behind Warren Buffet. His rise to this position was enabled by Amazon registering a 67% jump in share price.
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