Name: Jeff Bezos Title: Chairman and Founder, Amazon Real Time Net Worth: $267.6B (Ranked #3 in the world today as of 9/1/2026) 2026 Billionaires Rank: #4 • Jeff Bezos founded e-commerce giant Amazon in 1994 out of his Seattle garage. • Bezos stepped down as CEO to become executive chairman in 2021. He owns 8% of the company. • He and his wife MacKenzie divorced in 2019 after 25 years of marriage and he transferred a quarter of his then-16% Amazon stake to her. • In 2020, Bezos pledged to donate $10 billion to climate causes by 2030 through his Bezos Earth Fund; he has granted $2 billion so far. • He owns The Washington Post and Blue Origin, an aerospace company developing rockets; he briefly flew to space in one in 2021. • Bezos said in a 2022 interview with CNN that he plans to give away the majority of his wealth in his lifetime, without disclosing specific details. Age: 62 Source of Wealth: Amazon, Self Made Self-Made Score: 8 Philanthropy Score: 2 Residence: Miami, Florida Citizenship: United States Marital Status: Engaged Children: 4 Education: Bachelor of Arts/Science, Princeton University • March 2017: $72.8B • March 2018: $112B • March 2019: $131B • April 2020: $113B • April 2021: $177B • April 2022: $171B • April 2023: $114B • April 2024: $194B • April 2025: $215B • March 2026: $224B • Growing up, Bezos worked summers on his grandfather's ranch repairing Caterpillar tractors. • Bezos met Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 and managed to become one of the company's first angel investors, putting in an estimated $250,000. "I didn't think I'd regret trying and failing. And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all." — Jeff Bezos • Billionaires (2026): #4 • Forbes 400 (2025): #4 • The Richest Person In Every State (2025) • Billionaires (2025): #3 • Forbes 400 (2024): #2 • Billionaires (2021): #1 • Forbes 400 (2018–2021): #1 • Innovative Leaders (2019): #1