Bezos founded Amazon from his garage in Bellevue, Washington, in 1994. He attributes his new look partly to working out with a celebrity personal trainer and changing his diet.
See how different Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and other tech CEOs looked when they first started their companies
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Mark Zuckerberg
Dell is another member of the college dropouts-turned-tech founders club.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin
The photo at left shows Musk in 1999, around the time the “PayPal mafia” was formed.
Musk has said he doesn’t care for exercise and “almost never” works out, though he’s credited fasting and the weight loss drug Wegovy with his appearance today.
Bill Gates
Twitter was founded in 2006. Cofounder Dorsey has been seen with a full beard pretty regularly since departing as CEO and focusing his efforts more on cryptocurrency at Block, formerly Square.
Richard Branson
Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma disappeared from public view in 2020 after criticizing China’s financial regulation system. He resurfaced in Thailand in 2022 and has been teaching as a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo.
Evan Spiegel
Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph cofounded Netflix in 1997 as a DVD-by-mail service provider before it would become the streaming giant it is today. Hastings gave up the CEO title in January 2023, though he still serves as board chairman.