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With a fortune largely tied to his 78.9 million shares of Amazon, the net worth of Jeff Bezos continues to be on the rise.
Just days ago, Amazon shares reached all-time highs after the company’s ambitious acquisition of Whole Foods. This puts Bezos just $4 billion away from displacing Bill Gates as the world’s number one billionaire – and if the stock continues upwards, he could take the title any day.
We’ve previously showed how Bezos built Amazon from scratch, but today’s infographic focuses on the extent and reach of Jeff Bezos and his Amazon Empire.
All Streams Lead to Amazon
Jeff Bezos makes investments and acquisitions through multiple vehicles:
Amazon makes acquisitions and investments that relate to the company’s core business and future ambitions. This includes acquisitions of Whole Foods ($13.7 billion in 2017), Zappos.com ($1.2 billion in 2009), Twitch.tv ($970 million in 2014), and Kiva Systems ($780 million in 2012). It also includes investments in everything form failed dot-com company Kozmo.com (2000) to Twilio, which successfully IPO’d in 2016.
Bezos Expeditions manages Jeff Bezos’ venture capital investments. Over the years, this venture arm has put money into Twitter, Domo, Juno Therapeutics, Workday, General Fusion, Rethink Robotics, Business Insider, MakerBot, and Stack Overflow. More recent investments include GRAIL, a startup that recently raised over $900 million to cure cancer before it happens, as well as EverFi, an edtech startup.
Jeff Bezos also invests money on a personal level. He was an angel investor in Google in 1998, and has also put money in Uber and Airbnb. (Note: these last two companies are listed on the Bezos Expeditions website, but on Crunchbase they are listed as personal investments.)
Nash Holdings LLC is the private company owned by Bezos that bought The Washington Post for $250 million.
Bezos Family Foundation is run by Jeff Bezos’ parents, and is funded through Amazon stock. It focuses on early education, and has also made an investment in LightSail Education’s $11 million Series B round.
It’s also worth noting that Jeff Bezos is the founder of Blue Origin, an aerospace company that is competing with SpaceX in mankind’s final frontier.
Early Grocery Ambitions
While the Whole Foods acquisition is the latest talking point for Amazon, it is certainly not the company’s first foray into the groceries business.
Interestingly enough, the company actually invested heavily in HomeGrocer.com in 1999, a company that delivered groceries from large warehouses to homes. Sales peaked at $1.5 million per day, but unfortunately HomeGrocer couldn’t make it through the Dot-com bust.
This postponed Amazon’s grocery ambitions, but it wouldn’t stop them.
Well it’s certainly impressive. He’s not doing anything illegal is he? Maybe foisting infrastructure costs back to tax payers? I remember Amazon when they just sold used books. And now this.
Owning WaPo is certainly was a master stroke as he can now spew horseshit and make out like it’s “news” or solid info.
Like him or hate him, he’s certainly a Master of the Universe.
Thanks. Nice list to boycott.
Glad I dont contribute to this anymore other than a very few small items from Amazon that aren’t easily available elsewhere.
Call me whatever you want but this is bad. He is an Oligarch. A feudal/caste system is on the rise. Eventually, you (your progeny) will have 3 choices…1) work for the government 2) work for a corporation or 3) live on UBI.
I could be wrong of course.
He started out with a little online bookstore run out of his garage, his parents were the major investors out of their retirement savings.
You could have done the same, why didn’t you?
What will you say when the 1% own 99% of the world?
You like monopolies? Dynastic wealth? The rich controlling the world for their benefit?
You can bet your last dollar that some of those trillions created out of thin air by the Federal Reserve and other central banks – all owned by the Rothschild Crime Syndicate – have been used to fund Bozo and his Amazonian Empire. This is massive fraud because we the people have been robbed by the Fed through fiat currency creation which devalued our incomes, pensions and savings, and interest rate suppression which, along with printing to infinity, inflated the price of housing, created massive bubbles in stocks and bonds waiting to burst, and did major damage to the economy by causing endemic malinvestment. Hanging is too good for these gangsters.