With a fortune largely tied to his 79 million Amazon shares, the net worth of Jeff Bezos has continued to rise.
Most recently, the Amazon founder was even able to surpass Bill Gates on the global wealth leaderboard with $137 billion to his name – however, this ascent to the very top may be extremely short-lived.
On January 9th, 2019, Jeff Bezos announced on Twitter that he was divorcing MacKenzie Bezos, his wife of 25 years. While the precise ramifications of the news are not yet clear, it’s anticipated that MacKenzie Bezos could end up with a considerable portion of shares in Amazon as a result.
There is much to be decided as the world’s wealthiest couple splits their assets – but for now, here is a list of what Jeff Bezos owns today.
The Jeff Bezos Empire in 2019
The obvious centerpiece to the Jeff Bezos Empire is the 16% ownership stake in Amazon.com.
However, beyond that, there is a wide variety of other investments and acquisitions that Jeff Bezos has made through Amazon or his other investment vehicles. These range from household names to more secretive endeavors, and are worth looking at to truly understand his assets and fortune.
Amazon.com
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), PillPack ($1 billion in 2018), Twitch.tv ($970 million in 2014), and Kiva Systems ($780 million in 2012).
This also includes investments in everything form failed dot-com company Kozmo.com (2000) to Twilio, which successfully IPO’d in 2016.
Bezos Expeditions
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
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
Nash Holdings is the private company owned by Bezos that bought The Washington Post for $250 million.
Bezos Family Foundation
The BFF 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.
Blue Origin
Finally, 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.
So much to share with his soon to be ex wife.
Have mercy on poor jeff. When you’re uglier than a ball of snot you need a lot of money to buy top shelf pussy.
But, but, I do not think he bought top shelf-more likely mid to bottom shelf with a ton of miles on her.
with that kind of money, it would seem, unless he is a total neandethal in areas that matter, he could have done, could do one hell of lot better.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall. This will be a classic case.
First Zuckerburg now Bezos.
When the CIA manufactures a personality out of thin air, they can pull the plug anytime.
Zuck is disposable, Musk is next, and Bezos is still plenty safe for now.
It not like anyone is breaking up the CIA-mazon monopoly.
Selling books online, never going to work. Remember saying that?
Now he sells a lot of things.
Good for him.
Right place, right time and follow through.
Think Sears. All businesses die. It is just a matter of when.
Should have invested, for I was in the right place, at the right time but did not follow through.
Jerry Loftus
Sears had the base the system, everything needed for online shopping. their management dropped the ball.
I live in the sticks, really far from everything, and Jeff Bezos, love him or hate him, did, and does, one thing right; the behemoth he created – Amazon- delivers. And he gets people, probably half a billion of them at this point, what they want and need when they want it, 24/7/365. Without leaving the comfort of their homes or businesses. Blizzard or hurricane no matter. If a truck can make it up a dirt road to your mountain redoubt you can get almost whatever it is. RIght price, fast delivery, and a money back guarantee that can’t be beat: cheerfully refunded if not delighted, no questions asked.
So yeah let him have his empire and that silly newspaper. He can afford to get divorced and still have more money than the Sultan of Brunei. Plus he gets to be with that very hot Latina, Lauren Sanchez. Good for him.
“…. he gets to be with that very hot Latina”
WTF??? You need to get your eyes checked!!!
Stuckmeister, chacun à son goût.
CIA-mazon should have been broken up years ago if it was a real company and not a CIA retail store.
Trump and Bez-elbub-os pretending to be enemies is so fucking laughable I don’t know where to begin.
22- I don’t think these maroons will ever catch on to the manufactured BILLIONAIRE scam that is cover for government/CIA run enterprises. Interesting that they can jump on the manufactured news bandwagon and TOTALLY miss the (fake billionaires) bus.
Is it just me ….. or does The Mistress look like a virtual TWIN of The Wife???
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Personally, if a New Slut is gonna cost me $100 Billion dollars …. then I think I’d want New Slut to be a substantial upgrade to what I’m boinking now. Bigger tits. Nicer looking face. Something!! It’s like he’s trading in a Pinto for a Gremlin.
Stucky -Agreed, the man knows what he likes, he is really easy to please IMO.
The Bezos touch may be a bit lacking in some areas (be careful, new squeezes):
I recently visited Whole foods’ breakfast bar, usually decent food @$9/lb: eggs, bacon, sausage, biscuits, etc’
It was garbage, appeared to be couple of days old (retch), no biscuits at all, my favorite;
My advice-stay the hell away, most people there seemed to agree with my observation;
Used to be a decent stop for a quick breakfast-no more.
(I know, these are very weighty matters when bozos pomp ass and bolton are running around try to start a war-heh)
Just saying!