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 its board. In July 2017, he became the richest person in the world, surpassing Bill Gates for the first time. Between the end of October 2017 to January 20,21, He was the most wealthy person on the planet. He held more than 80 million Amazon shares when he was at its highest. As part of his April 2019 divorce settlement with MacKenzie Bezos, Jeff transferred 19.7 million shares to his ex-wife. At the date of the transfer the shares were worth $36 billion. The settlement temporarily decreased Jeff's net worth from $150 billion to $114 billion. Jeff was also an early pre-IPO investor in Google.com and owns around $1 billion shares of what is now referred to as Alphabet Inc.This was before his divorce and he owned the equivalent of 80 million shares. At that valuation Jeff's net worth reached an then-all-time high of $170 billion.
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