LEGEND
Jeff
BEZOS
Worth an incredible $ 182bn , Jeff Bezo ’ s meteoric rise to uber-wealthy began in 1994 when he founded Amazon . The idea came to him - so the story goes – while he was on a cross country road trip driving from New York to Seattle .
Born in Albuquerque , New Mexico to a teenage mother , Jacklyn Gise Jorgensen , and his biological father , Ted Jorgensen , he grew up and went to school in Housten and Miami . Bezos later graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science .
As a young graduate , started working on Wall Street , and dabbled in several financial and investment sectors until his 1994 road trip epiphany .
Bezos married his first wife , MacKenzie Bezos , shortly before Amazon was founded . The couple have three biological children and one daughter , whom they adopted from China .
Their marriage broke up in 2019 after 25 years of marriage following news that Bezos was in a relationship with Lauren Sanchez , a TV host and
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Amazon ownership of North American ecommerce
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Despite being classed as one of the world ’ s richest men , Bezos is a far cry from the archetypal workaholic with nothing else on his mind than the investments of the day . Instead , according to those close to him , he takes life at a relaxed pace , preferring to put his family commitments ahead of any work duties that are pending .
A firm advocate of the benefits of a good night ’ s sleep , Bezos insists on getting eight hours of shut-eye every night and never schedules meetings before lunch , preferring to spend his mornings in a relaxed manner with his family .
His hobbies include buying up companies ( a recent acquisition was The Washington Post in 2017 ).
Another passion is diving for space treasure . Bezos spends time combing the oceans for discarded NASA rocket ships . Parts of NASA rocket ships detach from space shuttles mid-flight and the boosters are dumped in the oceans .
Bezos works with teams in submarines to retrieve the space programme relics . According to reports , he once spent three weeks on a single underwater rocket hunt .
18 April 2021