Not many people know this storyâ¦. But in 1998, Bezos invested $250,000 of his own money in Google, when the company was just getting started out of a garage. When Google went public, that $250,000 investment translated into 3.3 million shares of Google stock. If Bezos still has those shares, today they're worth more than $5.6 billion. Now Bezos is betting big on a new trend. This time he's planning to invest $10 billion. When you click here and get the details, you could end up being right along his side.