#20 Jeff Bezos- Net Worth $28.9 Billion $452 M | -1.5% As of 4/12/2014

Jeff Bezos fortune rose $13 billion in 2013 as shares in his online retailer Amazon soared 55%. In October he bought the Washington Post for $250 million. The next month he sold 1 million shares of Amazon, less than 1% of the company, for about $260 million. In December he announced that Amazon could be delivering its packages by drones within five years. After graduating with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton, Bezos headed off to Wall Street, where he saw that the internet was the fastest-growing industry on the planet. He quit his job, headed to Seattle and founded online bookstore Amazon in 1995. The company expanded beyond books and now sells anything to anyone.

CEO, Amazon.com

Age 50
Source Of Wealth Amazon.com, Self Made
Residence Seattle, WA
Citizenship United States
Marital Status Married
Children 4
Education Bachelor of Arts / Science, Princeton University

Jeff Bezos on Forbes Lists

#18 Billionaires
#13 in United States
#19 in 2013
#15 Powerful People
#12 Forbes 400

#20 Jeff Bezos- Net Worth $28.9 Billion $452 M | -1.5% As of 4/12/2014