United StatesJeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1986 with degrees in electrical engineering and computer science. He worked on Wall Street from 1986 to early 1994, then founded Amazon in mid-1994, building it into the world's largest e-commerce and cloud-computing company. He founded Blue Origin in 2000 and funded it for years through his private investments, initially operating it with a very low profile. He flew to space aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard on its first crewed flight in 2021, and remains the company's owner and driving force as it develops the New Glenn orbital rocket and Blue Moon lunar lander.