Jeff Bezos
Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American businessman and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company. He is also the founder of the aerospace manufacturer Blue Origin, the owner of The Washington Post, and the founder of the venture capital firm Bezos Expeditions. He graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science, and worked on Wall Street at D.E. Shaw before founding Amazon in 1994. He stepped down as Amazon's CEO on July 5, 2021, transitioning to the role of executive chairman, and has an estimated net worth of approximately US$284 billion as of 2026.
“Jeff Bezos passed on our seed round at Boom. And then he wrote the 2015 Amazon shareholder letter about how there's certain things that only big companies can do. And he cited airliners as one of these.”
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