New Delhi, Aug. 15 -- Jackie Bezos, the mother of billionaire and entrepreneur Jeff Bezos, passed away at her home in Miami on Thursday, aged 78. According to the Bezos Family Foundation website, Jackie had been battling Lewy Body Dementia since 2020 - a progressive brain disorder that affects thinking, movement, behaviour, and mood.

While Jackie Bezos' support for her son Jeff before his Amazon journey is well known, what's perhaps less known is how well the initial investment she made in the company in 1995 paid off.

Jackie and Mike Bezos - Jeff's stepfather - invested $245,573 in Amazon despite having little knowledge about e-commerce or how the internet worked. At the time of the investment, Amazon was only an online bookstore run f...