AMAZON founder Jeff Bezos is one of the richest men in history and could soon become the world's first trillionaire.<\/p>\n
But who is the multi-billionaire Amazon founder, how did he start the gigantic tech company and what does he spend his money on?Here's what you need to know...<\/p>\n
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Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of online marketplace Amazon.<\/p>\n
The businessman studied electrical engineering and computer science at Princeton University before working on Wall Street.<\/p>\n
In 1994, Bezos, 56, founded Amazon from a garage - five years later he was named Time magazine's person of the year.<\/p>\n
As well as Amazon the tech giant is the founder of Blue Origin, a company working to develop commercial space travel.<\/p>\n
He also owns the Washington Post and is a volunteer firefighter.<\/p>\n
Bezos is a massive Star Trek fan and had a cameo in the last movie, playing an alien Starfleet official.<\/p>\n
Jeff Bezos is estimated to be worth over $140bn (112bn) and is on track to becoming the world's first trillionaire.<\/p>\n
While the financial future looks bleak for many during the coronavirus crisis, it has never looked better for Bezos who has become even richer during the pandemic.<\/p>\n
Amazon is now worth $1.1trillion with its shares hitting an all time high in April 2020.<\/p>\n
It helped Bezos see his fortune grow by another $6.4billion.<\/p>\n
Using data from the last five years of the Forbes Rich List, Comparisun worked out that Bezos' annual growth rate will make him a trillionaire in 2026 - when he is 62 years old.<\/p>\n
The Amazon founder, who owns about 16 per cent of the business' shares, first featured in the Forbes rich list in 1998.<\/p>\n
He became the richest man in history when his net worth reached 78bn ($105.5bn).<\/p>\n
It made him the first person to amass a 12-digit fortune since Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who has given more than 44billion ($60billion) to charity, achieved the feat back in 1999.<\/p>\n
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Bezos wrote down the business plan for Amazon during a cross-country drive from New York to Seattle in 1994.<\/p>\n
He initially set up the company in his garage after leaving his job at the hedge fund.<\/p>\n
In May 2016, Bezos sold slightly more than one million shares of his holdings in the company for $671million (525million).<\/p>\n
On August 4, 2016, he sold one million of his shares at a value of $756.7million (592.4million)<\/p>\n
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Jeff Bezos married novelist MacKenzie Bezos in 1993 after meeting while working at a New York hedge fund.<\/p>\n
They went on to have four children together.<\/p>\n
On January 10, 2019, Bezos and wife MacKenzie revealed their 25-year marriage was over in a joint statement.<\/p>\n
The divorce between the pair was finalised in April 2019, with Jeff keeping 75 per cent of the couple's stock amounting to about 81billion.<\/p>\n
Since splitting, MacKenzie Bezos has stayed away from the limelight, while her former husband has become a fixture in the tabloids with Lauren Sanchez, his new girlfriend.<\/p>\n
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