President and Chief Executive, Amazon.com Inc.

Bezos founded Amazon in 1994 in Bellevue, Wash., as an online bookstore. Amazon’s offerings over time expanded to include electronics, toys, kitchenware, furniture, clothing and groceries. In 2005 the company debuted Amazon Prime, a loyalty program that comes with free two-day shipping. Bezos owns the Washington Post. He bought the Warner Estate in Beverly Hills, which he purchased in 2020 from David Geffen for $165 million. He stepped down as chief executive of the ecommerce giant in July 2021 and several weeks later took a 10-minute trip to space on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket.

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