World's richest man Jeff Bezos was once a cook at McDonald's

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, whose net worth reached $106 billion earlier this week, earlier worked as a cook at McDonald's. He launched Amazon in 1994 selling books from his garage in Seattle. Bezos, who turns 54 today, added $32.6 billion to his wealth in 2017, which is higher than the GDP of 93 countries according to figures from IMF.