Jeffrey Preston Bezos has a net worth of $250 billion and serves as executive chair of Amazon, a company he co-founded in 1994. He retains about 9% ownership of Amazon, whose market capitalization the article lists at $2.42 billion and which the article ranks as the fourth most valuable company. Bezos led Amazon from an online bookstore to the largest e-commerce site and launched AWS, now the world's biggest cloud computing company. Bezos has high-profile personal assets including a $500 million yacht and a $50 million wedding. He funds ventures including Blue Origin and major AI investments such as $8 billion to Anthropic and a planned $100 billion in capital expenditures for AI R&D and server farms. The company competes with OpenAI, xAI, Microsoft, Google, and Meta in AI, and Amazon's AI success will strongly influence Bezos's future net worth.
Bezos owns about 9% of Amazon. Its market cap is $2.42 billion, which makes it the fourth most valuable company in the world. He founded it in 1994 with his then-wife MacKenzie Scott. From 1994 to 2021, he was chief executive officer. He turned the company from an online bookstore to the largest e-commerce site in the world. In 2022, he started Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is now the world's biggest cloud computing company.
It recently invested $8 billion into Anthropic, which is one of the world's largest AI startups. Amazon also said it would invest $100 billion in capital expenditures, most of which will go to AI R&D and server farms. CEO Andy Jassy commented, "I think that both our business, our customers and shareholders will be happy, medium to long-term, that we're pursuing the capital opportunity and the business opportunity in AI."
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