“When we build our own colonies, we can do them in near-Earth vicinity, because people are going to want to come back to Earth. Very few people - for a long time, anyway - are going to want to abandon Earth altogether.”

American businessman

Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American businessman known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon. He is associated with one of the world’s largest e-commerce and cloud computing companies. He is widely identified with Amazon’s rise and with major influence in business and technology. The available facts also note that he was among the world’s wealthiest people from 2017 to 2021, and that his net worth was estimated at about US$284 billion in 2026.