Who is Jeff Bezos?
A: Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American entrepreneur, media proprietor,
investor, computer engineer, and commercial astronaut.
He is the founder, executive chairman and former
president and CEO of what company?
A: Amazon.
What was his net worth as of September 2022?
A: Around US$136 billion.
When was Bezos the wealthiest person on earth?
A: From 2017 to 2021 according to both Bloomberg's Billionaires Index and
Forbes.
Where was in born?
A: In Albuquerque, New Mexico.
At the time of Jeff's birth how old was his mother?
A: She was a 17-year-old high school student, and his father was 19 years
old.
Where was he raised?
A: In Houston and Miami.
Jeff attended a Montessori school in Albuquerque, New
Mexico, when he was how old?
A: Two years old.
After his parents divorced, his mother married whom?
A: Cuban immigrant Miguel "Mike" Bezos in April 1968.
Shortly after the wedding, what did Mike do?
A: He adopted four-year-old Jeff whose surname was then legally changed from
Jorgensen to Bezos.
Jeff attended what Elementary School in Houston from
fourth to sixth grade?
A: River Oaks Elementary School.
Bezos graduated from Princeton University in what year?
A: 1986.
He holds a degree in what?
A: Electrical engineering and computer science.
He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields
from 1986 until when?
A: 1994.
When did Bezos found Amazon?
A: In late 1994 on a road trip from New York City to Seattle.
The company began as a what?
A: An online bookstore.
He has since expanded to a variety of other e-commerce
products and services, including video and audio streaming, cloud computing,
and what?
A: Artificial intelligence.
It is currently the world's largest what?
A: Online sales company.
It’s the largest Internet company by what?
A: Revenue.
What did Bezos form in 2000?
A: The aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company
Blue Origin.
Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle reached space in
2015
and afterwards successfully did what?
A: It landed back on Earth.
He also purchased what major American newspaper?
A: The Washington Post in 2013.
How much did he pay for it?
A: $250 million.
In September 2021, Bezos co-founded what biotechnology
company?
A: Altos Labs with Mail.ru founder Yuri Milner.
He was the first what on the Forbes wealth index?
A: Centibillionaire.
When was Bezos named the "richest man in modern
history" after his net worth increased to $150 billion?
A: In July 2018.
In August 2020, according to Forbes, he had a net worth
exceeding how much?
A: $200 billion.
In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, his wealth grew
by approximately how much?
A: $24 billion.
On July 5, 2021, Bezos stepped down as the CEO and
President of Amazon and transitioned into what role?
A: The role of executive chairman; Andy Jassy, the chief of Amazon's cloud
computing division, replaced Bezos as the CEO and President of Amazon.
What did he do on July 20, 2021?
A: He flew to space alongside his half-brother, Mark.
The suborbital flight lasted over 10 minutes, reaching
what peak altitude?
A: 66.5 miles (107.0 km).
