Jeff Bezos through the years

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, demonstrates a cordless power drill and reciprocating saw as he wears a western-style hard hat at a New York news conference, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 1999.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos holds a mixer in the Chicago Tribune test kitchen in 2000, when Amazon was beginning to sell houseware goods.

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, holds a large, stuffed Pikachu Pokemon doll as he listens to comments at a New York news conference, Tuesday Nov. 9, 1999.

Jeff Bezos, CEO and founder of Amazon.com, left, addresses the media as John Eyler, CEO of Toys R Us Inc., looks on during a news conference Thursday, August 10, 2000, in New York.

Diana Brooks, left, president and CEO of Sotheby’s, and Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Inc., address a news conference at Sotheby’s in New York, Wednesday June 16, 1999. Internet superstore Amazon.com invested about $45 million for a 1.7 percent stake in Sotheby’s.

Microsoft CEO Bill Gates presents a T-shirt as a retirement gift to “Clippy,” a person dressed as the Microsoft Office Assistant, as Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos looks on at the Office XP launch, May 31, 2001, in New York.

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, left, meets with Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp. chairman and chief software architect, at a New York news conference to launch Microsoft’s new software, Office XP, Thursday, May 31, 2001.

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, is shown during an interview at the online retail company’s offices in Seattle on May 2, 2001.

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, left, jokes with customers while at the The Billy Goat in Chicago in December 2001. At the grill are Billy Goat employees Spiros Sarivicile, front, and Ramon Gobinic.

Tennis star Anna Kournikova, left, and Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos pose for photographers during an announcement for a sports bra Kournikova designed Friday, Aug. 22, 2003, in Grand Central Terminal, New York.

In a 2005 file photo Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos holds a copy of “Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies” by Douglas Hofstadter — the first book sold on-line by Amazon.com.

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, introduces the Kindle at a news conference on Monday, Nov. 19, 2007 in New York.

hoto dated May 6, 2009 shows online retail giant Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos unveiling the Kindle DX in New York.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos holds the new Amazon tablet called the Kindle Fire on September 28, 2011 in New York City.

FILE - In this June 16, 2014 file photo, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos walks on stage for the launch of the new Amazon Fire Phone, in Seattle. Amazon.com reports quarterly financial results on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) ** Usable by LA, DC, CGT and CCT Only **  (Ted S. Warren / AP)

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, left, and Florida Gov. Rick Scott arrive for a news conference unveiling the new Blue Origin rocket at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015. Bezos announced a $200 million investment to build the rockets and capsules in the state and lau

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos speaks during a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump and technology industry leaders at Trump Tower in New York, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016.

This file photo taken on June 19, 2017 shows President Donald Trump and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella as they listen to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos during an American Technology Council roundtable at the White House.

Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer of Amazon, arrives for the third day of the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, July 13, 2017 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Every July, some of the world’s most wealthy and powerful businesspeople from the media, finance, technology and political spheres converge at the Sun Valley Resort for the exclusive weeklong conference.