10 Phenomenally successful Jeff Bezos Investment

Jeff Bezos is currently the richest person with net worth of over $131 Billions. He remains CEO of Amazon.com  and still owns 16% stake of the company. In 2018, Amazon made $230 billion in revenue and recorded $10 billion net profit . Addition to that Jeff Bezos has made investment in several startups and business in  last few years.

Apart from Amazon,  Jeff Bezos has diversified his investment in other companies and startups.

Over the past few years, Jeff Bezos has invested  into several new companies and startups that turned out to be phenomenally successful. Some of these startups even reached unicorn status.

Here are the list of successful business  investment by Jeff Bezos.

1. EverFi:

EverFi is an educational tech startup which has been selling online course. The startup provides teachers and students with digital courses in life skills such as financial literacy, health and wellness, and STEM and career readiness.

In April 2017, Bezos invested $190 million from his personal cash flow during a Series D funding round for EverFi.

2. NextDoor

NextDoor is a free, invite-only app that connect with people who live in your community about neighborhood safety, job postings, lost pets and local politics.

Bezos Expeditions, the investment firm of Jeff Bezos has invested during Series B funding in 2013. Nextdoor has raised more than $285 million thus far.

3. Airbnb

Airbnb is an online marketplace and hospitality service which arrange or offer lodging, primarily home stays, or tourism experiences and many more.

Bezos invested  $112 million in 2011, according to a Visual Capitalist report.  With over 150 million acitve users, Airbnb is valued at over $31 Billion plus.

4. Uber

Uber offers various services like  ride service hailing, food delivery, and a bicycle-sharing system. Bezos was one of the early investor of Uber.

Reportedly, Bezos  invested about $37 million in the American ride-hailing service provider Uber in 2011. Uber was valued at over  $72 billion as of August 2018.

5. The Washington Post:

Bezos bought one of the oldest and most popular newspaper company “The washington Post” in 2013.

Bezos’s paid  $250 million for  the paper and its other print properties . The Washington Post was owned by the Graham family for 80 years.

6. IMDb:

IMDb (Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television programs, home videos and video games, etc.

Jeff Bezos bought IMDb for  approximately $55 million in 1998.

 

7. Alexa:

Alexa Internet is an American web traffic analysis company. The company was  acquired by Amazon in 1999.

Alexa provides web traffic data, global rankings, and other information on 30 million websites.  As of 2018, its website is visited by over 3 million people every month.

8. Blue Origin:

Blue Origin is an aerospace company  launched in 2000.The rocket compay working on space tourism. Blue Origin has been  developing rockets for satellite launches and space exploration, similar to Elon Musk’s SpaceX.  According to Bezos , Blue Origin is trying to build low-cost infrastructure that can reduce the expenses of space travel.

Bezos had spent about a billion dollars a year on developing Blue Origin. Jeff Bezos has already stated  to invest more than $1 bn in Blue Origin in 2019.

9. Zappos:

Zappos.com is an online shoe and clothing retailer. Amazon acquired Zappos on July ,2009 in a deal valued at approximately $1.2 billion.

10. Twitch :

Twitch is a live streaming video platform. Twitch originally focused almost entirely on video games but has since expanded to  music, talk shows, and the occasional TV series.

Amazon bought the popular game-streaming service Twitch for $970 million in August 2014.

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