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Starting Amazon in a Bellevue garage in 1994, Bezos built a $600 billion-revenue empire that reshaped global retail, logistics, and cloud computing through AWS — then stepped back to chase lunar landing capabilities with Blue Origin and commit $10 billion to climate change.
Jeff Bezos is Founder and Executive Chairman of Amazon, which he started in 1994 as an online bookstore in his Bellevue, Washington garage and grew into a company with over $600 billion in annual revenue.
He championed Amazon Web Services, the dominant cloud computing platform. Bezos also founded aerospace company Blue Origin, acquired The Washington Post in 2013, and committed $10 billion through the Bezos Earth Fund. He stepped down as CEO in 2021.
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