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business details he has skillfully grown through the ladder with of success
with powerful vision. It has taken over twenty years to get this far and
that's a show of an uncommon patience and resilience.
Aside from Amazon.com, Jeff owns 3.3 million shares of Google stock
which he bought in 1998, he also has investments in other companies that
are doing well.
He is the founder of Blue Origin which started in 2000 but became public
in 2006. It’s a human spaceflight startup company, built out of Jeff's
fascination with space travel and visionary interest in developing "space
hotels, amusement parks, colonies and small cities for 2 million or 3
million people orbiting the Earth. They are expected to begin carrying
"test passengers" in 2017 and initiate commercial flights in 2018. As at
June 2017, Bezos was reported to be worth US$85.4 billion. He is
married to MacKenzie and they have four children.
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