American businessman (born 1964) Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American businessman, and the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes, he was the world's wealthiest person from 2017 to 2021, and in 2026, his net worth was approximately US$284 billion. 273,596 views on July 27, 2017 — Wikipedia's most-read article that day. Also most read: Church–Turing thesis, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Dunkirk (2017 film), Anthony Scaramucci. Wiki link