Jeff Bezos
Amazon · Miami, Florida
Net worth
$384.5B
Today
−$3.8B−0.97%Past month
+$6.3B+1.66%As of Nov 11, 2026, 1:50 PM EST
Jeff Bezos founded e-commerce giant Amazon in 1994 out of his Seattle garage. Bezos stepped down as CEO to become executive chairman in 2021. He owns 8% of the company. He and his wife MacKenzie divorced in 2019 after 25 years of marriage and he transferred a quarter of his then-16% Amazon stake to her. In 2020, Bezos pledged to donate $10 billion to climate causes by 2030 through his Bezos Earth Fund; he has granted $2.4 billion so far. He owns The Washington Post and Blue Origin, an aerospace company developing rockets; he briefly flew to space in one in 2021. Forbes estimates that Blue Origin is worth $130 billion. Bezos said in a 2022 interview with CNN that he plans to give away the majority of his wealth in his lifetime, without disclosing specific details.
Net worth over time
Principal holdings
2 positions| Company | Industry | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
Amazon NASDAQ: AMZN | Technology | 61.3% | $235.8B |
Private and other holdings | Technology | 38.7% | $148.7B |
Also known for
- Growing up, Bezos worked summers on his grandfather's ranch repairing Caterpillar tractors.
- Bezos met Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 and managed to become one of the company's first angel investors, putting in an estimated $250,000.
“I didn't think I'd regret trying and failing. And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all.”