Jeff Bezos

01Overview

02Reconcile the Estimate

Two-thirds of Bezos's fortune is one number anyone can check: how many Amazon shares he owns times the share price. His latest Form 4 that we verified shows 879,739,004 shares held directly after a sale on August 3, 2026¹. The second-biggest piece, Blue Origin, is where the estimates part ways. Bloomberg says it counts it at what he is estimated to have put in. Forbes does not publish its breakdown, but its figure is about $78 billion higher, far more than any difference in Amazon's price would explain, after outside investors bought in at a $130 billion valuation in July 2026². We count it at that funding round, less a discount for a private stake he cannot easily sell.

How the $355B Estimate Is Built

Solid: holdings counted from a filing value, a market price or a public record. Hatched: values we modeled or estimated, including values taken from disclosed ranges.

Scenarios: What Blue Origin and His Cash Are Worth

The Amazon shares are the same in all three. The difference is Blue Origin and the cash pile.

All three hold Amazon at 879,739,004 shares and $266.17, and add about $1.4 billion for homes, the yacht and the Post. Results are rounded to the nearest $5 billion.

Amazon share count from his Form 4 filed August 5, 2026 (SEC); price from the Nasdaq close on November 11, 2026; Blue Origin funding round as reported by TechCrunch (citing The New York Times), CNBC and Forbes in July 2026; property prices as reported; Bloomberg's figures for the yacht and the Post. Whose wealth this is: his own. His 2019 divorce settlement already moved a quarter of the couple's Amazon stock to MacKenzie Scott⁶.

Not observable: How much of Blue Origin he owns and what it is really worth, how much cash he holds after taxes, Blue Origin funding and giving, what his venture investments are worth, whether he has sold more of the 15 million shares in his current selling plan since August, and any debt. Blue Origin alone could move the figure by $50 billion either way.

03Published Estimates

Bloomberg values Blue Origin at what Bezos is estimated to have invested in it. Forbes does not publish its breakdown; its much higher figure suggests it gives the July 2026 funding round far more weight. We count the round less a 25% discount, which lands between the two.

04Assets and Liabilities

Amazon is valued at the market price. Blue Origin, cash and the smaller holdings are our estimates.

Homes are at the prices reported when he bought them; several have likely risen in value. The cash row is the least certain line after Blue Origin.

05Positions

06How the Fortune Was Built

07Profile

08The Amazon Stake

Bezos has been selling Amazon stock for most of the company's life as a public company, at first about a billion dollars' worth a year to pay for Blue Origin and later in much larger blocks: about $13.5 billion in 2024 and $5.7 billion from 25 million shares in 2025³. His 2019 divorce moved a quarter of the couple's shares to MacKenzie Scott⁶. All told he has sold about $49 billion of Amazon stock over his career, by one count of his filings³.

His latest selling plan was adopted on November 14, 2025 and disclosed in August 2026, for up to 15 million shares. His Form 4 for August 3, 2026 shows a sale of 1,209,649 shares at an average of $286.41, leaving him with 879,739,004 shares held directly¹. At $266.17, the close on November 11, 2026, those shares are worth $234B. Every $10 move in Amazon's stock changes his net worth by about $8.8 billion.

09Blue Origin

Bezos founded Blue Origin in 2000 and paid for it himself for most of its history; in 2017 he said he was selling about $1 billion of Amazon stock a year to fund it. In July 2026 it raised about $10 billion from outside investors for the first time, at a reported $130 billion valuation before the new money. Coatue was reported to be putting in about $4 billion and Bezos himself $2 billion².

He has never said how much of the company he owns. We assume about 90% after the round, and we count it at the round's price less 25%, because a private stake that cannot easily be sold is worth less than the price a new investor paid for preferred terms. That gives $94.5B. Bloomberg counts Blue Origin at roughly what he has put in, which goes a long way to explaining why its figure is so much lower than Forbes's⁷. Use the calculator above to try your own numbers.

10Giving It Away

In 2020 Bezos pledged $10 billion to the Bezos Earth Fund, to be given out by 2030. By October 2026 the fund had granted about $2.4 billion⁸, and Bloomberg reported in 2026 that it was off the pace to meet the pledge. He also started the Day One Families Fund for homelessness and early education in 2018, and has given $100 million awards to individuals. Money already handed to his foundation is not counted in his net worth.

11Homes, a Yacht and a Newspaper

Since moving to Miami in 2023, Bezos has bought three lots on Indian Creek Island for a reported $68 million, $79 million and $90 million. He also owns the Warner estate in Beverly Hills ($165 million in 2020), land in Maui (about $78 million, 2021), a former museum and the house next to it in Washington, D.C. (about $28 million) and units at 212 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan⁴. Together the reported prices come to about $627 million; we count them at that. His sailing yacht Koru is valued at about $500 million by Bloomberg, and The Washington Post, which he bought for $250 million in 2013, is counted at its purchase price⁵.

12Three Ways to Count the Same Fortune

All three start from the same Amazon shares; the gap between them is mostly how they value Blue Origin.

Amazon's share price moves all three every trading day; the Blue Origin choice is what separates them.

13Frequently Asked Questions

14Sources and Method