Jeffrey Preston Bezos ( BAY -zohss; né Jorgensen ; born January 12,
1964) is an American businessman best known as the founder, executive
chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest
e-commerce and cloud computing company. According to Forbes , as of May
2025, Bezos's estimated net worth exceeded $220 billion, making him the third
richest person in the world. He was the wealthiest person from 2017 to 2021,
according to Forbes and the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Bezos was born in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and Miami. He graduated
from Princeton University in 1986 with a degree in engineering. He worked on
Wall Street in a variety of related fields from 1986 to early 1994.