Jeff Bezos

 American businessman, philanthropist, and space explorationist Jeff Bezos is perhaps best known for the invention of Amazon.com. Jeff Bezos is the founder and chief executive officer president and chairman of the board of Amazon.com. In July 2017, he was the richest person on earth beating Bill Gates for the first time. He was the most wealthy person in the world without interruption between October 2017 to January 2021.According to the company's most recent SEC filing, Jeff owns 55 million shares of Amazon which is roughly 13% of the shares in circulation. Jeff owned more than 80 million Amazon shares at his peak. In the agreement to divorce in April with MacKenzie Bezos, Jeff transferred 19.7 million shares to his ex-wife. At the time of the transfer was $36 billion. The settlement reduced Jeff's net worth from $150 billion to $114 billion. Jeff was also a investor prior to the IPO of Google.com and holds at least $1 billion shares in what is now known as Alphabet Inc.This was prior to his divorce and he held the equivalent of 80 million shares. At that valuation Jeff's net worth reached an then-all-time high of $170 billion.