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13 things you probably didn't know about Jeff BezosJanuary 12, 2021 at 12:28 PM Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
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Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, who turns 57 on January 12, was born in New Mexico to a teenage mother and father.
Even at a young age, he showed a knack for engineering and inventing.
You might not know that Bezos almost named his wildly successful company "Cadabra."
In August 2020, he became the first person to accumulate a fortune of over $200 billion.
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Jeff Bezos is known as ...Tags: Amazon, Spacex, Texas, Jay Leno, Washington, Life, Wall Street, New York City, US, Trends, Cnn, Features, Ted Cruz, Billionaires, Holland, New Mexico 112 people like this. Like Jeff Bezos just turned 57. Here's how he built Amazon into a $1.56 trillion company and became the world's richest person.January 12, 2021 at 12:14 PM Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos.
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is turning 57 on Tuesday.
Bezos launched Amazon in 1995. The company has since grown to one of the most valuable, powerful companies on the planet with a market value of $1.56 trillion.
Bezos has gone from a New York hedge-funder to the richest man in the world, but in the process, he's weathered a high-profile divorce and hacking scandal, faced antitrust scrutiny from lawmakers, and everything in between.
...Tags: Google, Amazon, Spacex, Elon Musk, New York, Texas, Microsoft, Congress, Washington Post, Washington, Life, Germany, India, New York City, US, America 74 people like this. Like Jeff Bezos appears to be creating a massive Beverly Hills estate worth as much as $175 million. Here's everything we know about his record-breaking Southern California compound.December 27, 2020 at 4:12 PM Alex Wong/Getty Images; Los Angeles County/Pictometry
Back in February, Bezos became the new owner of the Warner estate, a sprawling compound in Beverly Hills, California, that he purchased for $165 million, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The estate features a 13,600-square-foot mansion, two guesthouses, a pool, and a tennis court.
Then, in August, both Variety and Daily Mail reported that Bezos had become the new owner of an adjacent house, which he is said to have purchased for...Tags: Amazon, New York Post, Real Estate, New York, Hollywood, California, Life, Los Angeles, Trends, Strategy, Tech, Spain, Features, Michelle Obama, Beverly Hills, Manhattan 55 people like this. Like Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez, have weathered a tabloid scandal, a lawsuit, and maybe even interference from a foreign government. Here's where their relationship began and everything that's happened since.December 26, 2020 at 4:36 PM Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez.
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In January 2019, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez were publicly outed as a couple the same day Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, announced their divorce.
The National Enquirer had been investigating Bezos and Sanchez for months and had obtained leaked photos and texts the couple had sent, including the now-famous message where Bezos called Sanchez "alive girl."
In the 18 months since, bo...Tags: Amazon, New York Post, Hollywood, California, Washington Post, Washington, Life, Relationships, India, Los Angeles, Trends, Tech, Spain, Features, Fox, Culture 109 people like this. Like Jeff Bezos has gotten $70 billion richer in the past 12 months. Here are 11 mind-blowing facts that show just how wealthy the Amazon CEO really is.September 15, 2020 at 12:42 PM Jeff Bezos is so rich that an average American spending $1 is comparable to Bezos spending $1.9 million.
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Jeff Bezos is the the world's richest person, with a net worth of $183 billion, according to the Bloomberg's Billionaires Index.
In August 2020, the Amazon CEO became the first person in history to be worth $200 billion, although his net worth his since dipped from that peak.
Since the beginning of March, as most of the world's richest people have been l...Tags: Amazon, London, Microsoft, Life, Elizabeth Warren, US, America, Trends, Wealth, Walmart, Bloomberg, Features, Getty Images, Britain, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Harvard University 116 people like this. Like America's 400 wealthiest people added $240 billion to their net worths in the past 12 months despite the pandemicSeptember 8, 2020 at 11:53 AM Jeff Bezos was already the richest person in America before the coronavirus pandemic, and it made him even richer.
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While the coronavirus pandemic devastated the personal finances of millions of people, America's 400 wealthiest billionaires added $240 billion to their collective net worth over the past 12 months, Forbes reported.
Amazon's Jeff Bezos grew his fortune 57% to $179 billion over the past year, more than any other billionaire on the Forbes 400.
2...Tags: Amazon, Life, US, America, Trends, Billionaires, Sheldon Adelson, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, Billionaire, Forbes, Bezos, Arts & Culture, MARK RALSTON, Forbes 400, Coronavirus 60 people like this. Like The richest people in America, rankedSeptember 1, 2020 at 3:43 PM Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters
The 16 richest Americans in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes Billionaires List are collectively worth more than $1 trillion. While tech moguls continue to dominate the top ranks, inherited wealth, like in the Walton family, also makes a strong appearance in the list.The four richest people in America are also the richest people in the world.On August 31, Elon Musk became the third-richest person in the world after Tesla stock split, causing shares to sha...Tags: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Spacex, Elon Musk, Texas, Board of Directors, Money, Microsoft, Washington Post, Life, Stanford, India, Satya Nadella 113 people like this. Like Jeff Bezos is the first person in history to be worth more than $200 billion. Here's how the world's richest man makes and spends his fortune.August 26, 2020 at 6:34 PM Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, is the richest person alive — and the first in modern history to accumulate a fortune over $200 billion.
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Jeff Bezos, the wealthiest person alive, is now richer than he's ever been.Bezos made his fortune from online retail giant Amazon, but has drawn increasing criticism over the company's size and is slated to defend it at a Congressional tech antitrust hearing on Wednesday.Bezos pledged to spend $10 billion to fight climate ch...Tags: Apple, Google, Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg, Post, Elon Musk, Florida, New York, Yahoo, Life, Finance, US, America, Trends, Tesla, Bloomberg 67 people like this. Like Jeff Bezos’ $165M mansion deal shatters Los Angeles sales recordFebruary 14, 2020 at 9:29 AM Bezos bought the Beverly Hills estate from Hollywood mogul David Geffen in an off-market deal without the involvement of any agents.Tags: Amazon, Hollywood, Technology, Listings, Lifestyle, Los Angeles, Radio, Beverly Hills, Jack Warner, Jeff Bezos, Wall Street Journal, Warner Brothers, David Geffen, Bezos, News Brief 36 people like this. Like Are You a Quality Product?October 21, 2019 at 2:00 AM -->
One of the most amazing things about living where I do, in Malibu, California, is observing how well many people treat themselves and how seriously they take themselves.
I know numerous people who have the following:
• Personal trainers (to motivate them to workout hard)
• Nutritionists (to recommend diets)
• Chefs (to cook the food)
• Stylists (to take them shopping for clothes)
• Anti-aging doctors (to prescribe various hormones)
• Psychologists (to talk through problems with)
• Psychiatri...Tags: Amazon, Featured, White House, Careers, Mental Health, United States, Ronald Reagan, Ferrari, Bill Clinton, Life Lessons, Starbucks, Physical Health, Bezos, Anthony Robbins, Malibu California, Getting Ahead 117 people like this. Like MacKenzie Bezos Just Pledged To Give Away At Least $17 BillionMay 28, 2019 at 11:15 AM MacKenzie Bezos, ex-wife of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, just pledged to donate half of her wealth to charity via The Giving Pledge, an organization created by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett that invites billionaires to publicly dedicate more than half of their wealth to philanthropy.After her divorce, Bezos came away as the fourth-richest woman in the world with roughly $35.6 billion, which means she'll be giving away at least $17.8 billion."We each come by the gifts we have t...Tags: Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg, Fashion, Music, Linkedin, Brooklyn, Reid Hoffman, Warren Buffett, Bill, Jeff Bezos, Melinda Gates, Brian Chesky, Jeff, Bezos, MacKenzie, Jeff Bezos Bezos 56 people like this. Like Jeff Bezos accuses National Enquirer parent company of 'extortion and blackmail' over dick picsFebruary 7, 2019 at 6:42 PM Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos today took the highly unusual step of publishing correspondence with Trump-allied tabloid publisher AMI, which owns the National Enquirer. The Amazon CEO says this correspondence reveals threats made by AMI to publish nude photos of Bezos, unless Bezos stops criticizing AMI's coverage.
Yes, that's a lot to digest.
We'll give you a moment.
Excerpt from the post titled “No thank you, Mr. Pecker,” which Jeff Bezos just published on Medium.com:
Back to the story: Several d...Tags: Amazon, Post, Politics, News, Washington Post, Sex, Jeff Bezos, National Enquirer, Donald Trump, Trump, Dick Pics, Martin, Bezos, Sánchez, Dylan, AMI 29 people like this. Like Will Jeff Bezos Get Half of MacKenzie Bezos’s Fortune in the Divorce?January 13, 2019 at 12:16 PM How much do you think Jeff Bezos will get in the divorce?
I haven’t heard anyone ask that. I’ve only read headlines like How Much Could MacKenzie Bezos Get? and How Much Will Jeff Bezos Lose?
In the Bezos marriage, the partners are equals. Jeff and MacKenzie started the company together. And they worked side by side. When the company was big and they had four kids, MacKenzie took half the load (kids) and Jeff took half the load (work).
Why do people assume Jeff will be doling out money to Mac...Tags: Amazon, Money, Nbc, Microsoft, Careers, Bill Gates, Silicon Valley, Bill, Jeff Bezos, Usa Today, Melinda Gates, Jeff, Bezos, MacKenzie, Wired Magazine, MacKenzie Bezos 120 people like this. Like How to protect your digital privacy from new Christmas presentsDecember 18, 2018 at 12:43 PM Just unwrapped a gift of an internet-connected device? Don’t just turn it on and plug it in – you might be giving the manufacturer all sorts of information you don’t need toJeff Bezos knows when you’ve been sleeping, he knows when you’re awake, he knows when you’ve been bad or good, because you didn’t change the default privacy settings on the Amazon smart speaker you set up in your bedroom, for goodness’ sake.This Christmas, families will be unwrapping various internet-connected devices, and, k...Tags: Amazon, Technology, Privacy, Internet, Christmas, Life and style, World news, E-commerce, Surveillance, Data Protection, Silicon Valley, Internet Safety, Bezos 10 people like this. Like "Bernie Sanders wants to punish businesses for hiring poor people."September 6, 2018 at 8:32 AM Comments John, at Facebook, linking to "Sanders rolls out ‘Bezos Act’ that would tax companies for welfare their employees receive" (Marketwatch).ADDED: From John: "It’s called the 'Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies Act,' or Stop BEZOS Act. Because politicians expressing their anger at Jeff Bezos for being the richest person in the world is more important than thinking about how our laws will actually affect the poor." But what if he's richest because middle class people are subsidizin...Tags: Facebook, Taxes, Law, Careers, Economics, John, Jeff Bezos, Bernie Sanders, Marketwatch, Sanders, Bezos, Jaltcoh, Ann Althouse 18 people like this. Like Are You a Quality Product?June 15, 2018 at 2:00 AM -->
One of the most amazing things about living where I do, in Malibu, California, is observing how well many people treat themselves and how seriously they take themselves.
I know numerous people who have the following:
• Personal trainers (to motivate them to workout hard)
• Nutritionists (to recommend diets)
• Chefs (to cook the food)
• Stylists (to take them shopping for clothes)
• Anti-aging doctors (to prescribe various hormones)
• Psychologists (to talk through problems with)
• Psychiatri...Tags: Amazon, Featured, White House, Careers, Mental Health, United States, Ronald Reagan, Ferrari, Bill Clinton, Life Lessons, Starbucks, Physical Health, Bezos, Anthony Robbins, Malibu California, Getting Ahead 54 people like this. Like The people in Amazon’s car delivery promo, ranked by how gladly we’d give them our keysApril 25, 2018 at 7:45 AM Oh that dastardly Amazon. First it upends the book industry, then it turns Bezos from a nerd into some sort of killer robot from the future, and now (in the US at least) it wants to drop loads off in your boot. No, not that, I mean, the company wants to put a package in your trunk. Damn, that’s not it either, how about: Amazon wants to put its valuables inside your things. Okay, this isn’t working. Basically, Amazon Key is a suite of services that lets delivery drivers – or friends and family – ...Tags: Amazon, Startups, Gadgets, Cars, US, Lifestyle, Tech, Gear, Bezos, Distract, Amazon First 143 people like this. Like Amazon finally opens up Prime Wardrobe to more customersApril 12, 2018 at 6:59 PM Amazon’s Prime Wardrobe appears to be getting ready to launch. The retailer’s “try before you buy” shopping service, first announced in June 2017, aims to challenge incumbents in the market like Stitch Fix, Trunk Club, Wantable, and others. The service has quietly remained in an invite-only beta since last year, and Amazon claims that’s still the case. However, a recent flurry of tweets, including – ahem, those from an Amazon account and people who worked on the project – beg to differ.
Jo...Tags: Amazon, Ecommerce, Fashion, New York, Tech, Walmart, Amazon Prime, Prime, Levi, Bezos, UCI, AMZN, Gwynnie Bee, Anne Taylor, Amazon Prime Wardrobe, Calvin Klein Nine West 74 people like this. Like Jessica Chastain Tapped In To All Our Anxieties On SNLJanuary 21, 2018 at 11:00 AM Jessica Chastain hosted this week's Saturday Night Live and managed to prove that (nearly) every sketch can make a statement. Throughout most of the episode, Chastain plays strong women, which frankly doesn't happen often enough on SNL, and challenges stereotypes while still enjoying The Bachelor. So, some aspects of all of us.In her opening monologue, the first-time host gets ironic when she says that she "never gets to do things like this because I am always cast the 'strong, independent woma...Tags: Fashion, Music, Jessica Chastain, White House, Time, Harvey Weinstein, House Of Cards, Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump, Cecily Strong, Jones, Trump, Stormy Daniels, Bezos, Daniels, Colin Jost 73 people like this. Like Jessica Chastain's SNL Hosting Gig Was So Political That The Cast Had To Talk Her DownJanuary 21, 2018 at 11:00 AM Jessica Chastain hosted this week's Saturday Night Live and managed to prove that (nearly) every sketch can make a statement. Throughout most of the episode, Chastain plays strong women, which frankly doesn't happen often enough on SNL, and challenges stereotypes while still enjoying The Bachelor. So, some aspects of all of us.In her opening monologue, the first-time host gets ironic when she says that she "never gets to do things like this because I am always cast the 'strong, independent woma...Tags: Fashion, Music, Jessica Chastain, White House, Time, Harvey Weinstein, House Of Cards, Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump, Cecily Strong, Jones, Trump, Stormy Daniels, Bezos, Daniels, Colin Jost 71 people like this. Like Amazon Looks to Foodies, DIY Fans and Fashionistas For GrowthSeptember 4, 2017 at 11:00 AM Amazon continues to redefine what a brand in today’s omnichannel digital world can be. Over the last 15 years, Amazon returned more than 8,000% to investors, outpacing competitors and the overall stock market.
The online bookseller that opened its doors online in July 1995 has morphed into a universe that includes original programming, cloud services, voice-activated devices, The Washington Post, private label food and fashion brands such as Find, which Amazon is promoting with a UK ad campaign...Tags: Amazon, Home, Food, Fashion, UK, TV, New York, Technology, Washington Post, Youtube, Advertising, E-commerce, New York Times, Retail, Kin Community, Ai |
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