Jeff Bezos
Founder, Amazon; Co-founder and Co-CEO, Prometheus
Four years after stepping down as Amazon CEO, he is a CEO again, co-running an AI lab that raised $18 billion in its first seven months.
- Born
- 1964-01-12, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
- Now
- Co-founder and Co-CEO, Prometheus
- Studied
- Princeton University
Interesting facts
- Early start
Was born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
en.wikipedia.org - Before AI
Worked on Wall Street for about eight years after Princeton, then started Amazon as an online bookstore on a 1994 road trip from New York to Seattle.
en.wikipedia.org - Side project
Flew to space in 2021 aboard his own company's rocket, Blue Origin's NS-16 mission.
en.wikipedia.org - Turning point
Four years after handing over Amazon's CEO job, he took an operating role again as co-CEO of Prometheus, an AI lab for engineering physical products.
en.wikipedia.org - Numbers
Prometheus launched with $6.2 billion in November 2025 and raised another $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation seven months later.
cnbc.com - In their words
Describes the goal of Prometheus as building "an artificial general engineer" for designing physical objects.
cnbc.com
Career
- PrometheusCo-founder and Co-CEO2025 to now
- Blue OriginFounder2000 to now
- AmazonFounder, President and CEO1994–2021
Education
- BSE, Engineering, Princeton University, 1986
