Jeff Bezos
1964–present · Seattle, Washington
Founding Amazon and Blue Origin, and writing the shareholder letters that gave founders Day 1 thinking and customer obsession
Net worth About $254.5B, Forbes, July 23, 2026
Amazon IPO May 15, 1997, at $18 a share
Amazon market cap Touched $1T on September 4, 2018
Years running Amazon 27, from 1994 to July 5, 2021
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