Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, the world's largest online shopping retailer.
Amazon.com . It is the largest Internet-based retailer in the world by total sales and market capitalization . Jeff Bezos ( [ ˈbeɪzoʊs ] born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen ; January 12 , 1964 ) is an American technology and retail entrepreneur , investor , and philanthropist who is best known as the founder , chairman , and chief executive officer of Amazon.com , which is the world 's largest online shopping retailer . Amazon.com is currently the world 's largest Internet sales company on the World Wide Web , as well as being the world 's largest provider of cloud infrastructure services , through its Amazon Web Services arm .