2. Who is Jeff Bezos?
Jeffrey Preston "Jeff" Bezos is an American
entrepreneur.
He played a key role in the growth of
e-commerce as the founder and chief executive
officer of Amazon.com.
Amazon.com is an online merchant of books and
later of a wide variety of products.
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3. Early Life
Bezos was born on January 12, 1964
Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen in New
Mexico, to Jacklyn Gise Jorgensen and
Ted Jorgensen.
As a child, he spent summers at his
grandfather's ranch in southern
Texas, "laying pipe, vaccinating cattle and
fixing windmills."
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4. Education
The young Bezos attended River Oaks
Elementary School in Houston from fourth to
sixth grade.
Bezos attended Miami Palmetto Senior High
School.
He attended Princeton University and
graduated with a Bachelor of Science in
electrical engineering and computer science.
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5. Career
After graduating from Princeton University
in 1986, Bezos worked on Wall Street in the
computer science field.
Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994.
He initially set up the company in his
garage.
In 2000, Bezos founded Blue Origin, a
human spaceflight startup company, which
has an early interest in developing space
hotels, amusement parks and colonies for 2
million or 3 million people orbiting the
Earth.
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6. Amazon
Jeff Bezos incorporated the company in
July 1994, and the site went online as
amazon.com in 1995.
Amazon is a major provider of cloud
computing services.
Amazon.com started as an online
bookstore, but soon diversified, selling
DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads,
software, video games, electronics,
apparel, furniture, food, toys, and
jewelry.
"Earth's biggest bookstore" to "Earth's
biggest anything store,"
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7. Success
“There are two kinds of companies, those
that work to try to charge more and those
that work to charge less. We will be the
second.”
“If you do build a great
experience, customers tell each other about
that. Word of mouth is very powerful.”
Amazon eventually made him one of the
most prominent dot-com entrepreneurs and
a billionaire.
He owns 20% of Amazon's stock and
forgoes stock options.
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8. Recognition
He was named Time magazine’s Person of
the Year in 1999.
In 2008, he was selected by U.S. News &
World Report as one of America's best
leaders.
Bezos was awarded an honorary doctorate in
Science and Technology from Carnegie
Mellon University in 2008.
In 2011, The Economist gave Bezos an
Innovation Award for the Amazon Kindle.
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9. Conclusion
Jeff Bezos is a great visionary, libertarian.
"We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts.
It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer
experience a little bit better."
-Jeff Bezos
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