Jeff Bezos: the Amazon billionaire and Trump bete noire

From business started in garage to world's richest man and collision course with Trump

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As Jeff Bezos is fond of reminding people, the world's richest man started Amazon in his garage, personally driving packages of books to the post office for delivery.

Nearly a quarter of a century later, he sits atop a globe-straddling online retail colossus employing 600,000 people, which last year became only the second company to be valued at $1tn by Wall Street.