Bezos is the Founder of Amazon
The creator of Amazon and one of the world's wealthiest people is Jeff Bezos. Bezos is an entrepreneur, engineer, media mogul, space enthusiast, and philanthropist who has achieved success in every industry he has entered. His current net worth is a staggering $187.7 billion, per Forbes. He topped Forbes' 2017 list of the wealthiest people, and his net worth exceeds the GDP of numerous nations.
His business was originally called Cadabra, but he eventually changed the name to Amazon in honor of the well-known river. Bezos initially lacked confidence in his company and even went so far as to warn investors that there was a 70% chance it would fail. Well, that didn’t happen. His annual salary from Amazon in 2020 was $81,840, which qualifies as a middle-income wage in his home state of California. In 2020, he took no bonuses, stocks, or options, however, he earned $1,600,000 from “other types of compensation,” according to the website Salary.com.
