#1 Jeff Bezos
CEO and Founder, Amazon
Worth: $197.8B
- Jeff Bezos founded e-commerce giant Amazon in 1994 out of his garage in Seattle. He will step down as CEO to become executive chairman in July 2021.
- Amazon thrived during the pandemic; revenues in 2020 grew 38% to $386 billion as people stayed home and made online purchases.
- In April 2020, Bezos said he would give $100 million to Feed America, a nonprofit that operates food banks and food pantries across the country.
- Amazon has faced criticism from U.S. senators and the general public for its treatment of warehouse workers during the coronavirus pandemic.
- He and his wife MacKenzie divorced in 2019 after 25 years of marriage and he transferred a quarter of his Amazon stake to her.
- Bezos owns The Washington Post and Blue Origin, an aerospace company that is developing rockets for commercial use.
