Jeff Bezos is an American entrepreneur who played a key role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, an online retailer.
Under his guidance, Amazon became the largest retailer on the World Wide Web and the model for Internet sales.
Here you go the List of companies Owned by Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos founded e-commerce giant Amazon in 1994 out of his garage in Seattle. He stepped down as CEO to become executive chairman in July 2021.
Zappos was acquired by Amazon in July of 2009. A subsidiary of Amazon, it's a popular apparel and footwear e-tailer in the US.
Zappos: Apparel and footwear website
Amazon Web Services acquired Elemental Tech, now called AWS Elemental, in the year 2015. Founded in the year 2006, the software company specialises in providing multiscreen video solutions.
Elemental Tech: Software company
Souq.com is an e-commerce marketplace based out of Dubai.
Souq.com: E-commerce marketplace, also called 'Amazon of the Middle East'
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is also the founder of Blue Origin, a rocket company that plans to make space travel possible. Bezos reportedly puts $1 billion a year into the company through the sale of Amazon stock.
Blue Origin: Rocket company
Jeff Bezos also owns the over-140-year-old newspaper 'The Washington Post'. Nash Holdings, a private company owned by Bezos, bought the newspaper in August 2013 for $250 million.
The Washington Post: Newspaper
In one of its biggest bet on physical stores, Amazon acquired the grocery chain Whole Foods in June 2016 for $13.7 billion in cash
Whole Foods: Grocery company
One of the world's most popular source for movie, TV and celebrity content IMDb, also known as Internet Movie Database, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amazon Inc
IMDb: Movie and TV programmes database
Originally Kiva Systems, the robotics company was renamed as Amazon Robotics after Amazon acquired it for $775 million in March 2012. The company uses package-carrying robots at logistic centres and warehouses of Amazon.
Kiva Systems: Robotics company
The web information company Alexa too is owned by Amazon. Alexa offers website information and analytics. Founded in 1996, the company was acquired by Amazon in 1999.