Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon and the private spaceflight company Blue Origin, as well as an active investor in technology and longevity ventures. He built Amazon from an online bookseller into a global e-commerce and cloud computing giant, with his 2021 shareholder letter noting the company had reached 1.3 million employees, over 200 million Prime members, and nearly $50 billion in annual AWS revenue run rate by 2020 . His strategic hallmark, as captured in shareholder letters republished by Oasis Capital, has been a decades-long tolerance for low margins and heavy reinvestment in customer-facing infrastructure . Beyond Amazon, he founded Blue Origin in 2000, based in Kent, Washington, which as of mid-2024 had flown 37 passengers past the Kármán line on its New Shepard suborbital tourism program . He has also backed AI and robotics startups such as Swiss-Mile (now RIVR), with his investment process covered in a 2025 Forbes feature , and participates in the construction of the 10,000-year Clock of the Long Now in West Texas alongside Kevin Kelly and Brian Eno .