NAME: Jeff Bezos
BORN: January 12, 1964, in Albuquerque, N.M.
AGE: 49
OCCUPATION: Founder, CEO of Amazon.com Inc.
EDUCATION: Graduated from Princeton summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1986 in electrical engineering and computer science.
CAREER: After college, Bezos held jobs at several Wall Street companies, including the quantitative hedge fund D.E. Shaw. Bezos left the hedge fund in 1994 to start what became Amazon.com. In 2000, he founded Blue Origin to develop a vertical takeoff and landing rocketship that would fly passengers to suborbital space.
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS: Named Time magazine's Person of the Year in 1999.
NET WORTH: Bezos has amassed a $25 billion fortune, based on the most recent estimates by Forbes magazine.ws
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