Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos is an American businessman, philanthropist, and space explorer probably best-known for creating Amazon.com. Jeff Bezos is the founder of the company, its chief executive officer, chairman and president of the board at Amazon.com. In July 2017, he was the most successful person in the world, surpassing Bill Gates for the first time. He was the wealthiest person in the world with no interruption between the month of October 2017 and January 2021.According to the company's most recent SEC report, Jeff owns 55 million shares of Amazon, roughly 12 percent of all shares that are outstanding. At one point, the company owned the equivalent of 80 million shares in Amazon. As part of his agreement to divorce in April with MacKenzie Bezos, Jeff transferred 19.7 million shares to his ex-wife. At the time of the transfer the shares were worth $36 billion. The settlement temporarily reduced Jeff's net worth by $150 billion to $114 billion. Jeff was also a pre-IPO investor in Google.com and has at least $1 billion shares of what is now referred to as Alphabet Inc.This was prior to his divorce and he owned 80 million shares. Jeff's net worth reached an all-time high of $170 billion at that valuation.