American businessman, philanthropist, and space explorator Jeff Bezos is perhaps best known for his invention of Amazon.com. Jeff Bezos is the founder of the company, its chief executive officer, chairman and president of the board of Amazon.com. The company's founder first broke the record of Bill Gates in terms of wealth in July 2017. He was the most wealthy person in the world without interruption from October 2017 until January 2021.According to the latest SEC report, Jeff owns 55 million shares of Amazon approximately 12 percent of the total shares that are outstanding. He owned over 80 million Amazon shares at the height of his wealth. Jeff donated 19.7 million shares to his wife as part agreement to divorce in April with MacKenzie Bezos. At the time of the transfer, the shares were valued at $36 billion. Jeff's net worth temporarily fell from $150 billion to $114 billion after the settlement. Jeff was also a pre-IPO investor of Google.com and owns at least $1 billion of shares of what is now referred to as Alphabet Inc.This was before his divorce so he still owned 80 million shares. Jeff's net worth reached an all-time high of $170billion in that time.
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