The Founder Of Amazon Is The Richest In The World

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos became the world's richest man on Thursday after a rise in the firm's stock price increased his wealth above Bill Gates.

According to Forbes and Bloomberg News, the net fortune of Bezos reached the age of one, which this week exceeded the wealth will end up being digital.

Outside of Amazon, the businessman also made headlines with his purchase four years ago of The Washington Post, whose coverage by President Donald Trump has generated threatening tweets by the president against Bezos, and the launch of the space rocket company Blue Origin.

Jeff Bezos was born in 1964 by the name of Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen, the fruit of the marriage of Ted Jorgensen and Jacklyn Gise, which did not last long since they divorced when the boy was 17 months old, according to CNBC.

Gise later met Cuban exile Miguel Bezos, who had arrived in Miami in 1962 without knowing English. After getting married and getting the biological father's approval, Bezos officially adopted the boy when she was 4 years old, gave her her name and raised her.

Exemplary student and graduate of Princeton University, young Bezos was working on Wall Street in the 1990s when, seeing the growth of the internet, he decided to bet on new technology. So he quit a lucrative job and went on an adventure.

The rest is history.