American businessman, philanthropist and space explorator Jeff Bezos is perhaps best recognized for the creation of Amazon.com. Jeff Bezos, the founder as chief executive officer, chief operating officer, and president of Amazon.com is also the chairman of its board. In July 2017, he was the richest person in the world, surpassing Bill Gates for the first time. Between the end of October 2017 and the 20th of January, 21 He was the most wealthy person on earth. At one point, the company owned 80 million shares of Amazon. Jeff gave 19.7 million shares to his wife as part agreement to divorce in April between him and MacKenzie Bezos. At the time of the transfer, the shares were valued at $36 billion. Jeff's net worth temporarily fell from $150 billion to $114 billion after the settlement. Jeff was also a pre-IPO investor in Google.com and holds at least $1 billion of shares of what is now referred to as Alphabet Inc.This was prior to the divorce, so he had the equivalent of 80 million shares. Jeff's net worth hit an all-time high of $170billion at the time of that valuation.
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