He is the founder and CEO of Amazon, a multibillion-dollar technology firm. He is powerful because of his wealth, which gives him a certain amount of clout. Prior to founding Amazon in 1994, he spent nearly eight years on Wall Street in a number of capacities.
Amazon, which began as an online bookshop, today sells a wide range of e-commerce goods and services, including cloud computing, video/audio streaming, and artificial intelligence.
Notable: Jeff Bezos, a one time richest man in the world and founder of Amazon, one of the biggest online Marketplace. But before Amazon became a million dollars business, the company’s CEO encountered failure too. His creation zShops failed but then it gave birth to the Amazon Marketplace.
With $400 billion in sales, it is now the world’s largest online retailer. Due to his passion for space travel, Bezos launched Blue Origin, a suborbital spaceflight services company, in the year 2000.
Reporting by Olayinka Koya
Olayinka Koya leads GYOnlineNG, an independent publication based in Ibadan, Nigeria. He covers Nigerian music, Nollywood, and the business decisions shaping the entertainment industry.
