Jeffrey Preston Bezos ( BAY-zohss; né Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman, 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 December 2025, Bezos's estimated net worth is US$239.4 billion, making him the fourth 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. Bezos founded Amazon in mid-1994 on a road trip from New York City to Seattle. The company began as an online bookstore and has since expanded to a variety of other e-commerce products and services, including video and audio streaming, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. It is the world's largest online sales company, the largest Internet company by revenue, and the largest provider of virtual assistants and cloud infrastructure services through its Amazon Web Services branch.
Bezos founded the aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company Blue Origin in 2000. Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle reached space in 2015 and afterwards successfully landed back on Earth; he flew into space on Blue Origin NS-16 in 2021. He purchased the major American newspaper The Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million (equivalent to $345,535,714 in 2025) and manages many other investments through his venture capital firm, Bezos Expeditions. In September 2021, Bezos co-founded Altos Labs with Mail.ru founder Yuri Milner.
The first centibillionaire on the Forbes Real Time Billionaires Index and the second ever to have achieved the feat since Bill Gates in 1999, Bezos was named the "richest man in modern history" after his net worth increased to $150 billion in July 2018 (equivalent to $192,320,434,667 in 2025). In August 2020, according to Forbes, he had a net worth exceeding $200 billion (equivalent to $248,810,595,345 in 2025). On July 5, 2021, Bezos stepped down as the CEO and president of Amazon and took over the role of executive chairman. Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy succeeded Bezos as the CEO and president of Amazon.
Læs mere...12. januar 1964 var en søndag under stjernetegnet for ♑. Det var 11 dag på året. Præsident for USA var Lyndon B. Johnson.
Hvis du blev født på denne dag, er du 62 år gammel. Din sidste fødselsdag var den mandag den 12. januar 2026, 141 dage siden. Din næste fødselsdag er tirsdag den 12. januar 2027, om 223 dage. Du har levet i 22.787 dage, eller omkring 546.903 timer, eller omkring 32.814.211 minutter eller omkring 1.968.852.660 sekunder.
Date: 13 January 1964
By RICHARD F. SHEPARD
Richard SHEPARD
Ford Foundation offers $1 million for 5-yr program to train museum curators through grad fellowships at univs (NYU and Yale) and interneships in museums; latter to involve 5 museums in 1st yr, seen benefiting about 60 museums eventually; other details
Date: 13 January 1964
By FRED POWLEDGE
Fred POWLEDGE
proliferation of rights orgns, programs and leaders seen bringing internal conflicts among them and forcing self-exam by leaders
Date: 12 January 1964
By HERBERT C. BARDES
Herbert BARDES
big mintage of Kennedy 50¢ pieces planned;
Date: 12 January 1964
New rev of new books for coll libraries has ed offices at univ
Date: 12 January 1964
By MARJORIE HUNTER; Special to The New York Times
Marjorie HUNTER
Tobacco Inst pres G V Allen rejects rept as final ward in debate, backs Terry call for more research; cigarette mfrs comment; smoking banned in room where rept was released; area sealed off so newsmen could study rept before querying panel members; history of debate over health effects; 1859 study by French dr noted; reaction of smoking pub; some defiant