Bezos purchased The Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million, revamping it for the digital age.

Bezos graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with degrees in electrical engineering and computer science.

Bezos initially named the company “Cadabra,” but changed it to Amazon after realizing it was often misheard as “cadaver.”

The Bezos Earth Fund was launched in 2020 with a $10 billion commitment to combat climate change.

Bezos founded Amazon in July 1994 as an online bookstore from his garage in Seattle.

Bezos founded Blue Origin in 2000 to enable private space travel and explore the colonization of space.

Jeff Bezos was born on January 12, 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The first product sold on Amazon was a book titled Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies in 1995.

Bezos stepped down as CEO in July 2021, transitioning to the role of executive chairman.

Amazon became the most valuable publicly traded company in January 2019, surpassing Microsoft.