Jeff Bezos

Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is the president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board of Amazon.com. Bezos, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University, worked as a financial analyst for D.E. Shaw before founding Amazon.com in 1994. He was TIME magazine's Person of the Year in 1999.

Estimated wealth

According to Forbes list of the World's Wealthiest People http://www.forbes.com/maserati/billionaires2004/LIRRYMV.html?passListId=10&passYear=2004&passListType=Person&uniqueId=RYMV&datatype=Person:

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• 1999 – $10.1 billion, ranked no. 19
• 2000 – $6.0 billion, ranked no. 55
• 2001 – $2.0 billion, ranked no. 234
• 2002 – $1.5 billion, ranked no. 293
• 2003 – $2.5 billion, ranked no. 147
• 2004 – $5.1 billion, ranked no. 82
• 2005 – $4.8 billion, ranked no. 41