Mark Bezos
Half-brother of Jeff Bezos who flew on Blue Origin NS-16.
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Marcus Jim Bezos, born around 1967, is an American space tourist and former advertising executive. He is the half-brother of Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, with whom he flew to the edge of space as part of the Blue Origin NS-16 mission on July 20, 2021.
Career
Mark Bezos, born around 1967, is a former advertising executive and space tourist. He is the half-brother of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. After graduating from Texas Christian University in 1992, he worked at ad agencies Saatchi & Saatchi and DDB.
He founded his own agency, Bezos–Nathonson, in 1999, which was acquired by EastWest Creative in 2005. From 2006 to 2016, he served as communications director at the Robin Hood Foundation, earning between $140,000 and $240,000 annually. He started a private equity firm in 2019. As of July 2021, he sits on the board of the Bezos Family Foundation.
A $10,000 Amazon stock purchase in 1996 was valued at roughly $640 million by 2018. He is married with four children, lives in Scarsdale, New York, and volunteers as a firefighter. On July 20, 2021, he flew to space on Blue Origin’s NS-16 mission alongside his brother.
Did You Know?
- He finished high school in Norway at the International School of Stavanger.
- The Blue Origin NS-16 flight lasted over 10 minutes and reached a peak altitude of 66.5 miles.
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- Wikipedia: Mark Bezos (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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