How Jeff Bezos became the world's Richest person, life story of the Co-Fonder of Amazon.
How Jeff Bezos became the world's Richest person, life story of the Co-Fonder of Amazon.
He is the founder of amazon.com. He was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States on January 12 1964. His biological father's name was Ted Jorgensen and mother's name was Jacklyn Gise Jorgensen. His mother divorced his father and married to Miguel Bezos.
| After marriage, Miguel bezos legally adopted Jeff. the family then moved to Houston, Texas. Bezos attended river oaks Elementary School in Houston from fourth to sixth grade. Then he attended Miami Palmetto Senior High School. He also attended the students science training program at the University of Florida. And received the Silver Knight award in 1982. |
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| Jeff bezos success career |
He graduated as high school valedictorian in 1982, he entered Princeton University, where he studied computers. in june 1984, he took a summer job as programmer in Norway, and the following year, he approved an IBM program in California. He served as the president of Princeton students for the exploration and development of space. In 1986, he graduated summa cum laude, with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
| In 1990, he joined David Elliot Shaw and company in New York. He became the youngest vice president there. his career in finance was extremely lucrative, but he decided to quit after four years. |
| In 1995, he founded amazon.com An online bookstore. In 1997, the company went public. |
In 1998, it started offering CDs and videos and in 2002, it also included clothes to its portfolio. In 2003, Amazon formed A9, a commercial search engine focusing on E- commerce websites. He also launched an online sporting goods store that offered up to 3000 Different brands.
In 2004, he founded Blue Origin, and aerospace company that is developing technologies to offer space travel to customers, kept a secret until land was purchased to build a launch and test facility.
The year 2007. Saw Amazon introduced a handheld electronic reading device, the kindle.
In 2010 Amazon signed a deal with the wylie agency who gave Amazon the digital rights to works of authors. Competing with Apple iPad, these servers introduced Kindle Fire, a color touch screen mini tablet computer.
He launched Amazon Studios apart from Amazon local, living social and Amazon Web Services. Amazon plans to present the television programs through an online video service.
On August 5 2013, bezos announced his purchase of the Washington Post for $250 million in cash. In December 2013, bezos revealed an experimental initiative called Amazon Prime Air that uses drones capable of carrying weight up to five pounds and traveling 10 miles to provide delivery services to customers. This innovator funded an expedition that recovered two powerful Saturn V first stage f1 rocket engines from the Atlantic Ocean identified as belonging to the Apollo 11 mission's s -1C stage in July 2013.
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| In 2012, he donated to Amazon's political action committee which has given $56,000, and $74,500 to Democrats and Republicans. After the 2016 presidential election, bezos was invited to join Donald Trump's Defense Innovation Board but he declined the offer. During March 9 2018 bezos earned$230,000 every 60 seconds. |
| Jeff Bezos married McKenzie Tuttle in 1993. They have four children. Visa was was awarded an honorary doctorate in science and technology from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008. |
| The following year, he was named Business Person of the Year by Fortune. |
Harvard Business Review ranked him the second best CEO in the world.
If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail, said Jeff Bezos.
