Jeff Bezos

Jeffrey Preston "Jeff" Bezos (ˈbeɪzoʊs; née Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American technology and retail entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist who is best known as the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, the world's largest online shopping retailer. The company began as an Internet merchant of books and expanded to a wide variety of products and services, most recently video streaming and audio streaming. Amazon.com is currently the world's largest Internet sales company on the World Wide Web, as well as the world's largest provider of cloud infrastructure services, through its Amazon Web Services arm. Bezos's other diversified business interests include aerospace and newspapers. He is the founder and manufacturer of Blue Origin (founded in 2000) with test flights to space which started in 2015, and plans for commercial suborbital human spaceflight beginning in 2018. In 2013, Bezos purchased The Washington Post newspaper. A number of other business investments are managed through Bezos Expeditions. With an estimated net worth of US$87.2 billion as of June 2017, Bezos is currently the second-richest person in the world, just behind fellow American Bill Gates in first place, and just ahead of Warren Buffett and Amancio Ortega in third and fourth place respectively.