He has a truly terrifying vision of space colonization. Jeff Bezos accepts award, eats iguana at Explorers Club gala /3WiX5AkezJ- Bloomberg March 12, 2018 He was in attendance to accept the Buzz Aldrin Space Exploration Award. But there is so much more to the rich tapestry of Jeff Bezos’s mind, and we at Intelligencer are here to tell you all about it.īezos was snapped taking a nibble of the large herbivorous lizard at the Explorers Club Annual Dinner in 2018. Or maybe you find yourself singing the Bo Burnham song every time a Prime van careens down your block. If you’re a real intellectual, you might know him best as the owner of the Washington Post. This has many people wondering: Who exactly is Jeffrey Preston Bezos? You might be familiar with his work at Amazon: He’s the company’s founder and, as of July 5, its former CEO. In July, Bezos plans to blast off on a rocket built by his space exploration company, Blue Origin. The billionaire space race is heating up, and Jeff Bezos aims to be first across the finish line.