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He has also figured in Fortune ' s list of 50 great leaders of the world for three straight years, topping the list in 2015. [188] In September 2016, Bezos received a $250,000 prize for winning the Heinlein Prize for Advances in Space Commercialization, [189] which he donated to the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space. [190] [191]
In January 2019, Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie Scott, released a joint statement that they would be getting divorced, after 25 years together. [29] [30] In February 2019, Bezos published a blog post alleging that National Enquirer publisher American Media, Inc. had attempted blackmail and extortion, in connection with Bezos's affair with ...
Jeff Bezos: Born 1964 Bezos is the founder and was the CEO of Amazon.com, at that point one of the most successful companies in the dot-com boom. 2000 George W. Bush: Born 1946 In 2000, Bush was elected President of the United States, defeating incumbent Vice President Al Gore.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and other notable allies of President Donald Trump engaged in a lengthy conversation with 18-year-old Barron Trump on Inauguration Day. Bezos, Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...
The elite group worth more than $100 billion includes Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Bill Gates. The 16 members have grown almost $900 billion richer this year and are jointly worth $2.8 trillion.
FILE - Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is seen on the sidelines before the start of an NFL football game, Sept. 15, 2022, in Kansas City, Mo. After nearly three decades, Bezos is leaving Seattle.
He was the biological father of e‑commerce magnate Jeff Bezos. Jorgensen was born in Chicago to a Danish-American family that moved to Albuquerque when he was a teenager. Jorgensen was a unicyclist who performed at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus , and in 1962 became the president of Albuquerque Unicycle Club , the world's first ...
Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. With Amazon’s expansion into retail beyond books, the world began to take notice. On Dec. 27, 1999, Bezos graced the cover of Time magazine as “Person of ...