Jeff Bezos

 American businessman, philanthropist, and space explorer Jeff Bezos is perhaps best recognized for the creation of Amazon.com. Jeff Bezos, the founder as chief executive officer, chief operating officer, and president of Amazon.com and the chairman of its board. In July 2017, he was the most successful person in the world beating Bill Gates for the first time. He was the wealthiest person in the world with no interruption between the month of October 2017 and January 2021.According to Amazon's most recent SEC report, Jeff owns 55 million shares of Amazon, roughly 12% of the total shares outstanding. At the time of his peak, his holdings were 80 million shares of Amazon. 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 valued at 36 billion dollars. The settlement temporarily diminished Jeff's net worth by $150 billion to $114 billion. Jeff was also a pre-IPO investor of Google.com and has at least $1 billion of shares in what is now known as Alphabet Inc.This was before his divorce and he held the equivalent of 80 million shares. In that time, Jeff's net worth topped the all-time record of $170 billion.