No. 25 Jeff Bezos 400,000 acres (up 110,000 acres) One of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs grew up spending summers on his grandfather’s 25,000-acre ranch outside of Cotulla, Texas. Decades later, the founder of Amazon started his own private aerospace…
The Lone Star State’s 10 Largest Landowners You’ll not find any land flippers or speculators on the following pages. These landowners are in it for the long haul. Improvements are monitored for years, for decades, and for generations. Let us…
Amazon.com founder moves even closer to offering aspiring astronauts the trip of a lifetime. A Far West Texas ranch has gone from running steers to racing to the forefront in the next chapter in manned space flight. As of April…
No. 26 Jeff Bezos 290,000 acres In mid-September 2015, Florida Gov. Rick Scott announced that Bezos’s Blue Origin had selected Cape Canaveral as a hub for manufacturing and launching its Orbital Launch Vehicle. Blue Origin was established by Amazon founder…
Amazon.com founder Bezos pushes envelope with New Shepard. The nation’s 26th largest landowner, Jeff Bezos, made history on his 290,000-acre Corn Ranch in late November. Best known as the founder of Amazon.com, Bezos is also the driving force behind Blue…
No. 25 Jeff Bezos 290,000 acres It seems that Amazon’s founder and CEO (pictured above) is ready to take on his next challenge: media boss. In 2013, Bezos paid $250 million to purchase The Washington Post from the Graham family.…
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, whose 290,000 acres ranks No. 27 on the 2010 Land Report 100, was inspired by the wide open West Texas skies he remembered from boyhood summers on his grandfather’s ranch. About seven years ago, he began…
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