Jeff Bezos is an American technology entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. Jeff is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Amazon.com, an Internet merchant of books and later of a wide variety of products and services, most recently video streaming. So, the company is named after the Amazon which is the largest river in the world by discharge.

Amazon, Bezos' company, is now the largest Internet based retailer in the world. In 2015, it surpassed Walmart as the most valuable retailer in the U.S. by market capitalization (the 5th largest company overall in 2016).

Amazon was founded in 1994 by Bezos when worldwide internet use was in its infancy. Bezos was 30 years old at the time and a Princeton University graduate. Today, Bezos' personal wealth is estimated to be $71.3 billion, ranking him 3rd on the Forbes 2016 list of billionaires.

Bezos once noted that the Amazon was by far the "biggest" river in the world, and he planned to make his store the biggest. Is his plan working?

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