Rosa J. Whitesel
Jeff Bezos founded e-commerce giant Amazon in 1994 out of his garage in Seattle. He stepped down as CEO to become executive chairman in July 2021. He now owns a bit less than 10% of the company.
Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin, a spaceflight company, in 2000. Shortly after, Blue Origin acquired a launch site in Texas and planned to launch the crewed suborbital spacecraft, New Shepard, in 2018 and the orbital launch vehicle, New Glenn, in 2020.
In 2013, Bezos purchased The Washington Post and its affiliated publications for $250 mn. By 2018, his net worth reached $112 bn, making him the wealthiest person globally.
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