American businessman, philanthropist and space explorator Jeff Bezos is perhaps best known for his creation of Amazon.com. Jeff Bezos, the founder, chief executive officer and president of Amazon.com and the chairman of its board. He was the first to surpass Bill Gates in terms of wealth in July of 2017. Between the end of October 2017 to January 20,21 He was the most wealthy person on the planet. At his peak his holdings were 80 million shares of Amazon. Jeff donated 19.7 million shares of Amazon to his wife as part of the April 2019 divorce settlement with MacKenzie Bezos. The value of shares at the time of transfer was $36 billion. Jeff's net worth sank from $150 billion down to $114 billion after the settlement. Jeff was also a pre-IPO investor of Google.com and owns around $1 billion of shares in what is now known as Alphabet Inc.This was before his divorce and he had 80 million shares. At that valuation Jeff's net worth was an then-all-time high of $170 billion.
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