# Jeff Bezos

Founder, Amazon; Co-founder and Co-CEO, Prometheus. TIME100 AI 2026, Leaders. 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. ([cnbc.com](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/11/project-prometheus-bezos-bajaj-live-updates.html))

- Born: 1964-01-12, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos))
- Education: BSE, Engineering, Princeton University, 1986 ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos))
- Career: Prometheus (Co-founder and Co-CEO, 2025 to now); Blue Origin (Founder, 2000 to now); Amazon (Founder, President and CEO, 1994–2021) ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_(company)), [cnbc.com](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/11/project-prometheus-bezos-bajaj-live-updates.html), [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos))
- TIME profile: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/jeff-bezos/
- Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/most-influential-people-in-ai/jeff-bezos

- Was born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos))
- 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos))
- Flew to space in 2021 aboard his own company's rocket, Blue Origin's NS-16 mission. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos))
- 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_(company)))
- Prometheus launched with $6.2 billion in November 2025 and raised another $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation seven months later. ([cnbc.com](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/11/project-prometheus-bezos-bajaj-live-updates.html))
- Describes the goal of Prometheus as building "an artificial general engineer" for designing physical objects. ([cnbc.com](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/11/project-prometheus-bezos-bajaj-live-updates.html))