The invention was a new online platform that was sketched out during a road trip.

The Amazon founder just tore up a funding playbook he has used since 2000, and the timing is no accident.

Jeff Bezos saw the internet’s “Kitty Hawk moment” and built Amazon into one of the world’s most powerful companies. Here’s how it happened.

But there was a time when Bezos was bootstrapping his business, figuring out how to scale his online bookstore. He told The New York Times that raising the first round of seed capital in 1994 was the ...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, finalized the biggest divorce settlement in history on Thursday, leaving him with 75 percent of their stock in the tech giant and giving her nearly ...

One of the world's richest people collects a paycheck that has not moved in 28 years. Amazon just confirmed it. Amazon's 2026 proxy filing, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, confirmed ...

CNN — On Thursday, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos took the extraordinary step of posting a personal essay alleging that the National Enquirer offered to bury embarrassing personal photos of him -- stemming ...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has lost more money on bad bets than most people will ever see in a lifetime. His response? Keep ...

When Jeff Bezos and Mackenzie Scott divorced, they truly went their separate ways in everything. Bezos went on to marry journalist Lauren Sánchez, while Scott was publicly open about her desire to use ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I report on media as well as its intersection with news and culture. Jeff Bezos launched Amazon back in the mid-1990s, and by the ...