Jeffrey Preston Bezos

Chairman and Founder, Amazon

Recent News: Jeff Bezos founded e-commerce giant Amazon in 1994 out of his Seattle garage. Bezos stepped down as CEO to become executive chairman in 2021. He owns a bit less than 10% of the company. He and his wife MacKenzie divorced in 2019 after 25 years of marriage and he transferred a quarter of his then-16% Amazon stake to her. In 2020, Bezos committed to donate $10 billion to climate causes by 2030 through his Bezos Earth Fund; he has granted $2 billion so far. He owns The Washington Post and Blue Origin, an aerospace company developing rockets; he briefly flew to space in one in July 2021. Bezos said in a November 2022 interview with CNN that he plans to give away the majority of his wealth in his lifetime, without disclosing specific details.on gift announced in July 2022. Most of his early donations were gifts of Microsoft stock. A shadowy figure next door to Jeff Bezos in South Florida’s ultra-swanky Indian Creek Village — aka the “Billionaire Bunker” — just hacked a cool $50 million off the asking price of a prime waterfront lot that’s been sitting empty. Originally slapped with a $200 million asking price in December, the plot’s now down to $150 million, Ilya Reznik of the Reznik Group, which is handling the listing, told Bloomberg. Mansion Global first reported the update. Reznik’s keeping mum on who’s behind the sale, but he’s betting big that Bezos’ star power will reel in deep-pocketed buyers for this slice of paradise in the exclusive, invite-only island packed with palm trees, a fancy golf course, and its own cops and boat patrol.