BILLION DOLLAR MAKEOVER

Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, has transformed from nerd to muscular billionaire

His new look includes £150 designer sunglasses, a £780 Ralph Lauren padded jacket and £275 trainers

At 53, he is worth £75bn – and could become the world’s richest man, overtaking Bill Gates, in days

He and wife MacKenzie have three sons and a daughter – who they adopted from China

They own a £20m lakehouse in Seattle and a 100-year-old former library in Washington DC worth £23m

A Star Trek nerd, Bezos considered calling Amazon MakeItSo.com in reference to the catchphrase of Captain Jean-Luc Picard

Bezos had a walk on part as a Starfleet official in the 2016 film Star Trek Beyond

Amazon was originally called ‘Cadabra’ but was changed when a lawyer said it sounded like cadaver

In 1999 Bezos invested £200,000 in Google. Today his shares are worth £3bn

At peak Amazon sells 600 items a second. It stocks 50m items and sells £125bn worth a year