American businessman, philanthropist and space explorer Jeff Bezos is perhaps best known for his invention of Amazon.com. Jeff Bezos, the founder, chief executive officer and president of Amazon.com is also the chairman of its board. He first surpassed Bill Gates in terms of wealth in July of 2017. He was the wealthiest person on earth without interruption between October 2017 and January 2021.According to the company's latest SEC report, Jeff owns 55 million shares of Amazon, roughly 12 percent of the total shares that are outstanding. He owned over 80 million Amazon shares when he was at its highest. Jeff donated 19.7 million shares to his wife as part April 2019 divorce settlement between him and MacKenzie Bezos. At the time of the transfer was $36 billion. The settlement reduced Jeff's net worth from $150 billion to $114 billion. Jeff was also a investor prior to the IPO of Google.com and owns around $1 billion shares in the company now known as Alphabet Inc.This was before the divorce, so he held 80 million shares. Based on that estimate, Jeff's net worth topped the record of $170 billion.
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