Jeff Bezos — Founder, Amazon & Blue Origin

**Jeffrey Preston Bezos** is the founder and former CEO of **Amazon** (now Executive Chairman), the founder of **Blue Origin** (space company), and the owner of **The Washington Post**. He built Amazon from an online bookstore in his Bellevue garage in 1994 into the world's largest e-commerce company, cloud computing platform (AWS), and one of the most valuable companies in history (market cap $2T+). He was the world's richest person for several years and remains among the wealthiest.