American businessman, philanthropist and space explorationist Jeff Bezos is perhaps best known for the invention of Amazon.com. Jeff Bezos is the founder of the company, its chief executive officer, president and chairman of the board of Amazon.com. The company's founder first broke the record of Bill Gates in terms of wealth in July of 2017. He was the richest person on earth without interruption between the month of October 2017 and January 2021.According to Amazon's most recent SEC filing, Jeff owns 55 million shares of Amazon, roughly 12 percent of all shares that are outstanding. He owned over 80 million Amazon shares at his peak. Jeff gave 19.7 million shares to his wife as part April 2019 divorce settlement with MacKenzie Bezos. At the time of the transfer, the shares were valued at $36 billion. The settlement decreased Jeff's net worth from $150 billion to $114 billion. Jeff was also an early shareholder in Google.com. He holds around $1 billion worth of shares of Alphabet Inc. This was prior to the divorce, and so the shares he owned were still worth 80,000,000. Jeff's net worth hit an all-time high of $170billion in that time.
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