American businessman, philanthropist, and space explorer Jeff Bezos is perhaps best known for his creation of Amazon.com. Jeff Bezos, the founder of the company, chief executive officer and president of Amazon.com is also the chairman of the company's board. In July 2017 he was named the most successful person on earth beating Bill Gates for the first time. He was the wealthiest person on earth for a period of time, uninterrupted from October 2017 to January 2021.According to the latest SEC filing, Jeff owns 55 million shares of Amazon, roughly 12percent of the total shares outstanding. At one point, he owned 80 million shares of Amazon. In the April 2019 divorce settlement with MacKenzie Bezos, Jeff transferred 19.7 million shares to his ex-wife. At the time of the transfer, the shares were valued at $36 billion. The settlement temporarily diminished Jeff's net worth by $150 billion to $114 billion. Jeff was also an pre-IPO investor in Google.com. He holds at least $1 billion of shares of Alphabet Inc. This was prior to his divorce, which means there was still a shareholding of 80 million. Based on that estimate Jeff's net worth reached an then-all-time high of $170 billion.
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