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Jeffrey Preston Bezos Jorgensen ; born January 12, 1964) is an American internet entrepreneur , businessman , media proprietor , and investor. Bezos is the founder and CEO of the multi-national technology company Amazon . With a net worth of more than $200 billion as of April 2021, he is the richest person in the world according to both Forbes and Bloomberg 's Billionaires Index . Born in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and later Miami, Bezos graduated from Princeton University in 1986. He holds a degree in electrical engineering and computer science. He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields from 1986 to early 1994. Bezos founded Amazon in late 1994, on a cross-country road trip from New York City to Seattle. The company began as an online bookstore and has since expanded to a wide variety of ot...