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Biography

Albuquerque born Jefferey Preston Bezos is an American entrepreneur, industrialist, media proprietor and investor. Jeff Bezos comes from a humble origin and has utilised hard work and passion for knowledge to become the second richest person in the world.

Jeff Bezos original name is Jeff Jorgensen but after his mother’s marriage to Miguel Mark Bezos he changed his name to Jefferey Preston Bezos.

Jeff started his career in 1986 after graduating from Preston University with a degree in Computer science and electrical engineering. Initially, he worked for a start-up company called Fitel but later moved to the bank sector to work as Financial Analyst at D.E. Shaw.

In 1994, he moved to Seattle after marrying Mackenzie Tuttle and opened a virtual book store.

Initially, he named his company Cadabra but changed it to Amazon, later.

Till July 2021, Jeff remained Amazon’s CEO and is responsible for making Amazon the most successful e-commerce site in the world.

In 2011, Jeff is given the Innovation Award for Amazon Kindle.

In 2018, Bloomberg Billionaires Index awarded him the title of ‘Wealthiest Person in Modern History’

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Name	Jeff Bezos
Birth Name	Jeff Jorgensen
Nick Name	Jeff
Height	173 cm or 5’8 inches
Hair colour	Gray (half-bald)
Eye Colour	Light Brown
Profession(s)	Investor and Philanthropist, Technology and Retail Entrepreneur
Ethnicity	White American
Date of Birth	11 January 1964
Age	59 years (2023)
Birth Place	Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
Zodiac Sign	Capricorn
Home town	New Mexico, US (Seattle, Washington)
School	River Oaks Elementary School, Houston, Texas. Miami Palmetto High School, Florida.
Nationality	American
Educational Qualification	Bachelors of Science(B.SC)
College/ University	Princeton University, New Jersey, US
Religion	Not declared
Marital status	Divorced
Sexual Orientation	Straight
Hobbies	Spending time with family and searching old NASA rockets
Affairs/Girlfriends	MacKenzie S Tuttle (1992-2019) Lauren Sanchez ( 2018-present)
Year of Marriage	1993
Wife	Mackenzie Bezos
Sons	3
Daughter	1 (adopted)
Father	Ted Jorgensen
Mother	Jacklyn Bezos
Step Father	Miguel Mike Bezos
Sister	Christina Bezos
Brother	Mark Bezos
TV show	Star Trek
Food	Octopus with Potatoes, Green Garlic Yoghurt, Bacon
Jet collection	Dassault Falcon 900 EX
Home	29,000sq.ft Medina Mansion in Lake Washington
Net Worth (2021)	US$150 billion (approx)

Birthday

Jeff celebrates his birthday on the 11th of January of every year since 1964. He was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, US.

Jeff Bezos Birthday

11 January 1964

Physical Stats

Eye Color	Gray (half-bald)
Hair COlor	Light Brown

 Age

Jeff Bezos The Billionaire American Business Tycoon completes his 59 years this  11th of January. He was born in 1964 on 11th January.

Jeff Bezos Age

59 years

Height

Jeff Bezos Height	5’ Feet 8′ Inches
Height in Centimeter	173 CM
Height in Inches	68.11 Inches

Weight

Jeff Bezos Weight	70 KG
Weight in Pounds	154 LBS

Education

School	River Oaks Elementary School, Houston, Texas. Miami Palmetto High School, Florida.
Educational Qualification	Bachelors of Science(B.SC)
Jeff Bezos College/University	Princeton University, New Jersey, US

Family

Jeff was born on 11th January 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. At the time of Jeff Bezos’s birth, his mother Jacklyn Bezos was a mere teenager of 17 and his father Ted Jorgensen was 19. After being abandoned by Ted Jorgensen at the age of 3 years, Jeff was adopted by his stepfather Miguel Mike Bezos in 1994. Jeff Stepfather has always inspired Jeff to achieve great heights.

Jeff has a younger stepbrother Mark Bezos who is a philanthropist and works with the Robin hood organisation. He Married Mackenzie Tuttle in 1993 and has three sons and a daughter whom they have adopted from China.

Jeff Bezos Father	Ted Jorgensen
Jeff Bezos Mother	Jacklyn Bezos
Jeff Bezos Step-Father	Miguel Mike Bezos

Jeff Bezos Family Photo

Mother

Jeff Bezos Mother, Jacklyn Bezos gave birth to Jeff when she was only 17 years of age. She was married to Ted Jorgensen(Jeff’s biological father), for 19 years. Ted was an alcoholic and abandoned Jeff and his mother when Jeff was 3 years old.

Jacklyn met Mike Bezos, a Cuban immigrant, Who adopted Jeff after their marriage and has been an inspiration for him ever since.

Sibling

Mark Bezos is Jeff Bezos Younger Brother. He is an entrepreneur turned Philanthropist who is presently working with an organisation called Robin Hood.

Jeff Bezos Brother	Mark Bezos
Jeff Bezos Sister	Christina Bezos

Children

Jeff takes his children’s privacy very seriously, therefore, not much information is available about his children other than the fact that he has 3 sons and one daughter. Jeff Bezos and Mackenzie had adopted their daughter from China and she is the youngest among all his children.

Jeff Bezos is blessed with four children; 3 sons and one daughter.

Jeff Bezos Sons	3
Jeff Bezos Daughter	1 (adopted)

Ex-Wife

Jeff Bezos Ex-wife is Mackenzie Tuttle is a novelist and Philanthropist. She married Jeff in 1993 and moved to Seattle in 1994 where Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com using his garage as an office. Jeff has 3 sons and one daughter (adopted) with Mackenzie.

In 2019, Jeff Bezos Divorced Mackenzie Bezos and made her the third wealthiest woman in the world by settling 32.6billion dollars in Amazon stock with her.

Jeff Bezos Wife, Mackenzie Scott Tuttle is 51 one years old beautiful woman who was born in San Francisco, California, US on 7th April 1970. Jeff fell in love with Mackenzie while working for D.E.Shaw where she was also employed. She is a novelist and Philanthropist.

Jeff Bezos Married Mackenzie Scott in 1993 and spend 25 years of his life with her. They have 3 sons and a daughter(adopted) together. In 2019, Jeff Bezos and Mackenzie Got Divorced and parted ways.

In April 2019, Mackenzie Scott becomes the world’s third-wealthiest woman and made it into the list of ‘wealthiest people overall’, after receiving $35.6billion in Amazon stock, as a divorce settlement. Mackenzie changed her surname to Scott after her divorce from Bezos.

Mackenzie is presently married to Dan Jewett, who is a high school chemistry teacher.

Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Scott Photo

Affair/Girlfriend

Jeff has been dating Lauren Sanchez for more than two years. Lauren Sanchez is a media personality who has hosted many TV shows. She is 52 years old and has two sons and a daughter from a past relationship. Lauren and Jeff Bezos have declared their relationship in 2019 and has been updating us through social media platform from time to time.

Most recently Jeff has shared their new year eves photographs where he is spotted wearing a bright printed dress and heart shape sunglasses while Lauren appeared in a black shimmering dress. Although many memes have been made about Jeff after that look yet, he is enjoying the happy relationship with Lauren Sanchez.

Jeff Bezos Girlfriend

Lauren Sanchez (2019- present)

Social Media

KulFiy	Jeff Bezos
Instagram	4.1M Followers
Facebook	3.3M Followers
Twitter	6.3M Followers
LinkedIn	Jeff Bezos, Amazon and Blue Origin – Newslines
Pinterest	Jeff Bezos
SnapChat	NA
TikTok	NA
YouTube	NA
IMBD	Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Favourite Food

Jeff have a peculiar taste in food or rather weird food choice. For example Octopus with potatoes.

All Companies

Zappos: In 2009 Jeff acquired Zappos through Amazon. Zappos is an apparel and footwear e-commerce website in Las Vegas. Amazon paid $1.2 billion for an all-stock deal.

Elemental Tech: In 2015 elemental tech was acquired by Amazon Web Services and called AWS Elemental. It has offices in Hong Kong, India, the United Kingdom, Brazil, France, China, Japan, Russia and Singapore.

Souq.com: This e-commerce website is based in Dubai and is popularly known as Amazon of the gulf. It was acquired by Amazon in 2017.

Blue Origin: the aerospace company is Jeff Bezos pet project and is his prime focus since the beginning. It aims to make space travel reliable and cheaper. Its CEO is Bob Smith.

Whole Foods: Amazon under the guidance of Jeff acquired Whole Food for 13.3 billion dollars. Instead of changing management, this acquisition focuses on offering many benefits to Amazon users, including two-day or quick delivery in some areas, prime deals, extra discounts etc.

The Washington Post: Jeff own The Washington Post through LLC Nash Holdings. This newspaper is 140 years old and previously under the ownership of Warren Buffet was brought for $250 million.

IMDb: Internet Movie Database is a subsidiary of Amazon  Inc. This website offers reviews, and ratings of movies and TV shows and has approximately 250 million titles.

Kiva Systems: In 2012 Amazon acquires Kiva Systems and rebrands it as Amazon Robotics. This company was bought for $775 million and manufactures package-carrying robots.

Besides these companies Amazon also has the ownership of the following companies; Alexa Web Services, Good Reads, Audible, Fabric.com, Woot.com, DPReview, Twitch.

Companies

Jeff Bezos Companies List

Zappos:

Elemental tech

Souq.com

Blue origin

Whole Foods

The Washington Post

IMDb

Kiva Systems

Alexa Web Services

Good Reads

Audible

Fabric.com

Woot.com

DPReview

Twitch

Elon Musk

This century has witnessed the success of two great entrepreneurs, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. Despite the difference in their ages these two billionaires share common interests and have a professional rivalry that motivates them to oust each another from time to time.

Here is the comparative table sighting the various fields and categories in which these two men have earned a reputation.

Comparative table	Elon Musk	Jeff Bezos
Net Worth in 2022	22, 110 crores	11,450 crores USD
Position in Company	Double CEO	Executive Chair
Marital Status	Divorced	Divorced
Space Company	Space X (2002)	Blue Origin (2000)
Twitter	80M followers	3.8M followers
Instagram	2.7M followers	3.9M followers

Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk Photo

Bill Gates

Jeff was among the few select guests who were invited by Bill Gates (Co-founder of Microsoft with a net worth of approximately $136billion), to his 66th birthday party, at Sea Me Beach in Fethiye. Bill gates are on the list of World Richest Billionaires and once held the title of Richest billionaires.

Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates Photo

Mukesh Ambani

Amazon has also spread its branches in India and has been one of the most successful and popular e-commerce stores.

Mukesh Ambani, like jeff, is among the richest entrepreneur of the world and believe in expanding and diversifying.

Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industry has been aggressively buying stores of Future retail to give competition to Jeff Bezos Amazon.

Since 2020, Amazon and Mukesh Ambani are involved in a long court battle for the Future of Indian retail.

Jeff Bezos vs Mukesh Ambani Photo

Facts

Jeff Bezos Facts: Following are some interesting facts about Jeff that only a few people are aware of to date.

• Jeff’s interest in computers is sparked due to his grandfather, Lawrence Preston Gise, who has worked as regional director in the US-based Atomic Energy Commission.
•  From his early age, Jeff was an inventor who is always building one thing or another, like, a solar cooker, hovercraft, electric alarm, robot, etc.
• Jeff got his first job at the Fitel startup company where he worked for two years before joining ‘Bankers Trust’ and ‘D.E.Shaw,’ an investment firm at WallStreet.
•  Jeff met Mackenzie Sheri Tuttle at D.E.Shaw, where she worked and fell for her. In 1993 he got himself married to Mackenzie.
• 1994 was the cornerstone of Jeff’s life as a businessman. He created Amazon.com after quitting D.E. Shaw and used his garage as his workplace.
• Jeff Bezos first Employee name is Shel Kaphan.
•  Amazon.com is named after a mighty river in South America.
•  Amazon’s logo is creative and indicates the availability of products from A to Z.
•  In 1998, Jeff met Sergey Brin and Larry Page (Google co-founder) to invest $250,000 thereby becoming the first angel investor of the company.
• Times magazine named Jeff “Time Person of the year” in 1999.
• Jeff has a “Two Pizza Rule” where he believes that a team should only be big enough that could be fed with Two Pizzas.
• Jeff suffered a minor head laceration after a fatal helicopter accident in 2003.
• In 2000, he created ‘Blue origin’, LLC with the vision of making space travel affordable.
•  He is seen performing a cameo in ‘Star Trek Beyond’ in 2016.
•  He made it into the World’s Billionaires list of Forbes in 2018.
•  Jeff Bezos robotic dog (spotMini) made headlines in 2018.
•   According to modern history, Jeff is the first person to make a fortune of $100billion approx.
•  On 20th July 2021, Jeff realises his dream of travelling to space with his best friend and brother, Mark Bezos.
• Jeff has once been married to Mackenzie Tuttle. After sharing 25 years of marriage the couple divorced in 2019.

Email id

If someone wishes to contact Jeff through email they can email on the following address:

[email protected]

or [email protected]

Jeff Bezos email id

[email protected] or [email protected]

First job

Jeff got his first job at the Fitel startup company where he worked for two years before joining ‘Bankers Trust’ and ‘D.E.Shaw,’ an investment firm on WallStreet.

Jeff Bezos first Job

Fitel (2 years)

Google Investment

In the year 1998. Jeff Bezos became the first angel investor of Google by investing $250,000. This investment was made after Jeff Bezos’s meeting with Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

Jeff Bezos Google Investment

$250,000 in 1998

Uber Investment

Jeff Bezos Uber Investment: invested approximately $37M in Uber’s Series B funding round. This Uber company went public at $45 per share, in 2019.

The value of the company that year was $82.4 billion. Today, Uber’s Market capital amount to $ 88 billion with $46.72 per share.

Quits Amazon

Amazon CEO Jeff quit being Amazon CEO from 5th July 2021 and has taken the role of Executive Chair.

Jeff Bezos Retire

Jeff has been Amazon’s CEO since 1994. At the age of 57, Jeff plans to retire from the role and will focus his attention on more creative pursuits in the company.

Share in Amazon

Jeff holds a 15.1% share in Amazon, which is also his greatest source of wealth. It is due to these 15% shares in Amazon that Jeff is the second richest person in the world while his ex-wife Mackenzie is the third wealthiest woman in the world.

Jeff Bezos share in Amazon

15.1% share

Mcdonalds

Jeff Bezos Mcdonalds: Jeff, like most American kids, got himself a summer job in high school. He told in an interview that he had worked as a burger flipper in Mcdonald’s at the age of 16 in 1980.

Upcoming Projects

Jeff Bezos Upcoming Projects: As an investor, Jeff has his hands full with many startup companies one of which is the Altos Lab of Silicon Valley. However since his retirement, Jeff has only talked of focussing more on his space company Projects that are working on colonising Mars like Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Jeff has also taken an executive chair in Amazon from where he says to work on innovations and improving the company in more creative ways.

Journey

Jeff Bezos Career Journey begins after his graduation in 1986 from Princeton University. He has a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer science.

He worked for a startup company Fitel, for two years, before joining D.E. Shaw in 1990 as a financial analyst and soon climbs to the status of youngest Senior VP of the firm.

In 1993 he married Mackenzie Tuttle. After his first year of marriage, he moved to Seattle and launched a virtual bookstore, in 1994 from his Garage. By 1995, Amazon began to expand and diversify and has become the most successful e-commerce site in the world, today.

In 2000, Bezos launched another company called Blue origin with the aim to make space travel affordable. Bezos started his cloud computing service, AWS (Amazon Web Services) and a video programming services knowns as Amazon Unbox(popularly known as Amazon Prime nowadays), in 2006.

Kindle came into existence in 2007, it is a portable reading device and is digital in nature.

As Jeff entered 2012, his company Blue Origin begins flight testing of New Shepherd.

In 2019, Jeff and Mackenzie Bezos parted ways after their divorce.

In 2021. At the age of 57, Jeff Bezos Retired from the post of Amazon CEO and choose to remain an Executive Chair of Amazon.

Billionaire Space Race

Jeff, Elon Musk and Richard Branson are popular because of their Space programs and commercial flights.

Branson secured the bragging rights to Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, by flying into space in his company Virgin Galactic’s passenger rocket plane called VSS Unity. By taking a flight nine days before Jeff, Branson has joined the “Billionaire Space Race”.

Space Flight

On 21 July 2021, Jeff Bezos Earned the title of an astronaut by flying in space in his spaceflight company, Blue Origin, rocket and capsule. The New Shepherd rocket and capsule are launched vertically and can fly autonomously. The best thing about the New Shepherd rocket and capsule is that it is reusable.

The New Shepherd Rocker and capsule manages to fly to a higher altitude than Branson’s Virgin Galactic rocket and has crossed the Karman line.

Through this flight, Jeff sets the milestone for Blue Origin and the commercial Spaceflight industry which was dominated by SpaceX. This can also open a new market for space trips to the edge of the space.

Going to Space

Jeff Bezos Going to Space: On 20th July 2021, Jeff Bezos Travelled to Space with his brother Mark Bezos and covers a distance of approximately 107km.

Blue origin

Six years after the launch and success of Amazon, Jeff Bezos found Blue Origin. It aims at making human spaceflight possible. This company’s test facility is located in West Texas. In 2011, Blue Origin’s prototype vehicle hurtled its short hop-test flight.

After several years of research and experiments, in 2015, the company’s New Shepherd space rocket passes the flight test successfully.

Jeff Bezos Blue Origin Photo

Rocket

It is due to Jeff funding that an expedition was carried out and recovered Saturn V first-stage F-1 rocket engines from the Atlantic ocean. This rocket belongs to the Apollo 11 mission’s S-1C stage in July 2013.

Jeff Bezos Rocket Image

Garage

Jeff Bezos Garage: It is a well-known fact that in 1994, Jeff started his Virtual book store in the garage of his house at Northeast 28th Street in Bellevue, Washington. It is the reason why Jeff calls himself “garage inventor”.

Song

Jeff Bezos Song: Bo Burnham wrote a song on Jefferey Bezos and named it Bezos I.

Leadership

Jeff has a certain life and work theories that he applies in his life. For instance, he has this “Regret-minimization-framework”, according to which he leads his life in such a way that when in his old age he looks back he has very little to regret like he would not regret quitting wall street but will regret, not being there for the beginning of the internet.

Similarly, he believes in “work-life-harmony” instead of work-life balance” as according to him balance means not having one thing out of two but harmony means both can be together and interconnected.

His interviewing criteria revolved
around three main questions;

1-    Can he admire the
person?

2-    Can the person
raise the common standards?

3-    Under what
circumstance could the person become exemplary.

Besides this he often refers to
five principles in his annual letters to Amazon

Shareholders,

1-Focus on customers, not
competitors

2-Take risks for market leadership

3-Facilitate staff morale

4-Build a company culture

5-Empower people

Besides this jeff is known to insult and verbally abuse his employees and often pit one team against another, creating an adversarial environment.

Book

There are several Jeff Bezos books available in the books store that throws light on Amazon and its ex-CEO Jeff . For example;

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon	Brad Stone
Get Big Fast	Robert Spector
One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com	Richard L. Brandt
Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut	James Marcus.
Jeff Bezos: Biography of a Billionaire Business Titan	Elliot Reynolds

Lifestyle

Jeff Bezos lifestyle: He starts his day at 6:30 in the morning which he spends puttering away till 10:00 AM. He prides himself on his cooking skills which he uses to prepare breakfast for his children in the morning. During his ‘puttering’ time he prefers not to work and only reads papers, makes coffee etc. he believes that this helps him focus and take important decisions during his working day.

Once he is in his workplace he devotes most of his time to working and surveying different floors to supervise and observe. He is regarded as a fair boss by his employees. He finishes his working day by 5:00 PM every day. He spends his evening having Business dinners while enjoying exotic foods. After spending a productive day he goes to bed by 10:30 PM.

Achievements

The Carnegie Mellon University in 2008 awarded Jeff with an Honorary doctorate degree in the field of science and technology.

U.S. News and World Report also selected him as America’s best leader.

Quotes

Jeff is also known to say things from time to time that is used as quotes by others. His quotes are quirky and inspiring at the same time. Some of the quotes from Jeff Bezos Collection are as follows.

“Life is too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.”

“One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.”

“It’s hard to remember for you guys but for me, it’s like yesterday I was driving the packages to the post office myself, and hoping one day we can afford a forklift.”

I am Skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centrepiece.”

Personality

As a person Jeff is reserved, practical and orderly. He is hardworking and focused. He is also self-sufficient and prefers a small group of friends. He believes in competition and often pits one team against another in his office. He is also ruthless and outspoken. He likes to spend time with his children and fiercely protect their privacy.

House

House in Beverly  Hills	2020 for $165 million
Lake House in Medina, Washington	1998 for $10million and renovated in 2010 spending $28 million.
Multiple Apartments in New York City	2019 for $80 million, 2020 for $16million and 2021 for $23M
A Palatial Mansion (once a textile Museum)	2016 for $23M
Ranch in Texas	2004

Jeff Bezos House Photo

Jet

Jeff Bezos being the second richest man on earth owns one of the fastest and most luxurious private jets Gulfstream G-650ER. This jet can cover 1,110km/h as it is powered by two Rolls Royce BR725 engines. It has a range of 13,890 km. As reported by ‘Business Insider’, this particular Aircraft Costs Jeff Bezos $65 Million. This aircraft can seat 19 passengers.

Jeff Bezos Jets

Gulfstream G650ER for $65M

Jeff Bezos Jat Photo

Yacht

Jeff Bezos Yacht: Jeff commissioned a megayacht in Holland. This Y721 is worth $500 million will be 417 feet long and will be the biggest sailing yacht. Before this Diller ‘Eos’ was considered the biggest at 305 feet long followed by Ellison ‘Musashi’ at 288 feet and Brin ‘Dragonflat y’ 240 feet.

Jeff Bezos Yacht Photo

Car Collection

Jeff Bezos has various cars in his garage from the most expensive to the fastest. Here is the list of Jeff Bezos cars in his collections:

1997 Honda Accord

Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita

Bugatti Veyron Mansory

Lamborghini Veneno Roadster

Ferrari Pininfarina Segio

Lykan HyperSport

Cadillac Escalade

Lincoln Stretch Limousine

Land Rover Range Rover

Mercedes-Benz S450

Total Property

Jeff Bezos Total Property: has vastly invested in real state and holds many Residential Properties which are listed below:

Three Apartments in Manhatten

Warner Estate in Los Angeles

House in Beverly  Hills

Lake House in Medina, Washington

Multiple Apartments in New York City

A Palatial Mansion (once a textile Museum)

Ranch in Texas

Income

As per 2022 reports Jeff Bezos monthly income is +$7000

Jeff Bezos Monthly Income

+$7000

As Vizaca calculations of July 2021, Jeff Bezos Earns $321 Million per day.

Jeff Bezos Per day Income

$321 Million

Jeff Bezos One Minute Income

$142,667

Jeff Bezos Per Second Income

$3,715

Net worth

Jeff Bezos Net Worth in 2023	US$150 billion
Net worth in 2022	US$147 billion
Net Worth in 2021	US$143 billion
Net Worth in 2020	US$140 billion
Net Worth in 2019	US$138 billion

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