After losing $20 billion in one day to the Amazon stock collapse in April 2022, Bezos currently sits in third place, led by Musk and luxury LVMH mogul Bernard Arnault. Despite the stock market crash—and his infamous divorce from Mackenzie Scott—the entrepreneur, still has billions.
What is he planning to spend most of his change on? Bezos flew into space. "The only way I can think of using so many financial resources is to shift my profits from Amazon to space travel," he told Business Insider in a 2018 interview with his aerospace company Blue Origin, adding that "[his] funds are being used by Amazon lottery winnings" to fund it on an ongoing basis. Bezos has also amassed a celebrity following, with 4.5 million followers on Twitter alone, which may soon be Musks.
As he lunches with Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson and, yes, compares his outfits to Twitter user Pitbull, Bezos' net worth far surpasses the A-list star. Everything we know about Jeff Bezos' net worth — including how much Amazon still owns.
How did Jeff Bezos start Amazon?
In 1994, Bezos left his position as senior vice president of an investment bank in New York -- the youngest company ever -- to follow his instincts in the burgeoning e-commerce market. So he and his wife Scott moved to Seattle, where he opened his rental garage thanks to a sizable investment of nearly $300,000 from his parents. As a result, while Amazon sells almost every product type today, it only started with books before expanding its offerings in 2005.
