India, Aug. 15 -- Jackie Bezos, mother of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, has died at the age of 78. A fierce supporter of her son's e-commerce venture and a philanthropist with a big heart, she passed away at her Miami home on August 14, after a long battle with "Lewy body dementia", according to the Bezos Family Foundation website. Besides investing a sizeable sum on her son's nascent business venture when it was still a tiny startup, Jackie's net worth goes beyond commercial undertakings, and her story is one of resilience, and compassion.

In 1995, Jackie Bezos and her husband Miguel "Mike" Bezos made the decision to back Jeff's budding e-commerce startup by investing a whopping $245,573, despite warnings from the Amazon finder about the poten...