Trivia

Founder and CEO of Amazon.com.

Forbes magazine named Bezos "the richest man in modern history" when his net worth increased to $150 billion. (July 2018)

Last name was changed from Jorgensen to Bezos at age four when his mother remarried to Miguel "Mike" Bezos.

(September 4, 2018) His company Amazon became the second American company (after Apple) to reach one trillion dollars in value ($1,000,000,000,000).

Suffers from an eye condition called "Ptosis" (aka Blepharoptosis), a drooping or falling of the upper eyelid, sometimes called 'lazy eye'.

Wrote a term paper in high school titled "The Effect of Zero Gravity on the Aging Rate of the Common Housefly" which won him a trip to NASA.

In 1990, he joined hedge fund D.E. Shaw & Co. In 1994, he was charged with researching the business potential of the Internet. He suggested to his bosses they set up an online bookstore. When they declined, he quit the firm in 1994 to launch Amazon.com.

He earns $230,000 per minute, which equates to $331,200,000 per day.

Merited a place in TIME magazine's "The 100 Most Influential People" issue with an homage penned by former astronaut Buzz Aldrin. (May 2017)

Bloomberg reported that an increase in Amazon's stock value had increased Bezos' net worth to $100 billion, making him only the second person in history with a net worth over $100 billion, after Bill Gates briefly reached the milestone in 1999. (November 2017)

Graduated summa cum larde from Princeton University (1986). He started in the honors physics program but changed majors when he realized there were smarter students in his class. His new major was electrical engineering and computer science.

His first post college job in 1986 was with Fitel, a New York fintech company building a computer program to handle international financial transactions. In 1988, he moved onto Banker's Trust where he earned VP stripes for helping to set up BTWorld, a software program that allowed bank clients to track their corporate retirement plans.

He owns the major newspaper The Washington Post.

Attended and graduated as a valedictorian from Miami Palmetto Senior High School in Pensacola, Florida (1982).

Is a huge fan of Star Trek (1966). He made a cameo as an alien Starfleet official in the sequel Star Trek Beyond (2016), and joined the movie's cast and crew at a San Diego Comic-Con screening.

On July 20, 2021, he flew into space aboard the Blue Origin NS-16 with his brother Mark Bezos. The sub-orbital spaceflight lasted over 10 minutes, reaching a peak altitude of 6.65 miles (107.0 km).