Jeff Bezos is an American entrepreneur, media proprietor and investor

Jeffrey Preston Bezos is born January 12, 1964

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He is the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon

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the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company

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With a net worth of about US$170 billion as of November 2023

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Bezos is the third-wealthiest person in the world and was the wealthiest from 2017 to 2021

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according to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes

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Born in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and Miami

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Bezos graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with degrees in electrical engineering and computer science

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He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields from 1986 to early 1994

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Bezos founded Amazon in mid 1994 on a road trip from New York City to Seattle

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The company began as an online bookstore and has since expanded to a variety of other e-commerce products and services

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including video and audio streaming, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence

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It is the world's largest online sales company, the largest Internet company by revenue

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