Top 5 Serial Entrepreneurs In The World

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1. Jeff Bezos

Net worth (in 2021): $190.8 billion

Country: United States

Topping our list of the top 15 serial entrepreneurs in the world is Jeff Bezos. The richest man in the world founded the largest e-commerce company Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) in 1994 in his garage in Seattle. Through the years Amazon has grown to become a giant, acquiring Whole Foods in 2017 for $13.7 billion, establishing 17 physical bookstores, several Amazon Go grocery locations in New York, Seattle, and San Francisco. Bezos also has large holdings in more traditional investments, such as real estate. His 165,000-acre Corn Ranch in Texas was developed as a base of operations for his aerospace company, Blue Origin, and serves as a test site for the New Shepard suborbital manned vertical landing rocket. In the media and communications industry, Bezos has invested in Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) and the popular Business News Insider website. Jeff Bezos also acquired The Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million. In the travel sector, Bezos decided to invest $112 million and $35 million respectively in Airbnb’s (NASDAQ: ABNB) B-Series financing and Uber’s (NYSE: UBER) transport services. One of his notable investments also includes Workday Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), a company that provides human resource services in the cloud. 

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