Forbes estimated Jeff Bezos's net worth at about $284 billion in 2026. Bloomberg, in May 2026, ranked him fourth in the world at $279 billion. Most of the figure is his stake in Amazon, the company he founded in 1994.
Amazon began with money from his family. In 1994 his parents, Mike and Jackie Bezos, put in an estimated $300,000. Bezos told early investors there was a 70% chance the company would fail.
Amazon went public on NASDAQ on May 15, 1997, at $18 a share. Its 2025 revenue was $716.9 billion, with net income of $77.67 billion, and its market capitalisation was about $2.813 trillion in early November 2026.
His fortune was divided once. When his divorce from MacKenzie Scott was finalized in 2019, she received 25% of his Amazon shares, then valued at about $36 billion. He kept his stakes in The Washington Post and Blue Origin, plus voting control of the shares given to her. Bezos stepped down as Amazon's CEO in 2021.