Jeffrey Bezos is an American Internet billionaire, aerospace entrepreneur, media owner, and philanthropist. Best known for the wildly successful Amazon.com website, but he also owns the aerospace company Blue Origin and the Washington Post newspaper. Best selling books published by or about Jeff Bezos include “The Jeff Bezos Letters: 14 Principals to Grow your Business like Amazon“, “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon“, and “The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos“.
Mini Jeff Bezos biography: Born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America. on the 12th of January, 1964. Jeff Bezos was married to MacKenzie Tuttle until they divorced in 2019. They have four children together.
Jeff Bezos Biography
Jeff Bezos is the president, founder, and CEO of Amazon.com where he also acts as chairman of the board.
Jeffrey Preston Bezos was born on January 12, 1964 in Albuquerque, NM. He and his mother relocated to Houston, Texas, when Bezos was five to live with his new stepfather. Jeff Bezos attended River Oaks Elementary School in Houston until the sixth grade after which he attended Miami Palmetto Senior High School when the family moved to Miami, Florida. Bezos spent many summers of his childhood on his grandfather’s 25,000 acre ranch in Cotulla, Texas helping perform various duties necessary for upkeep.
He showed early mechanical aptitude and eventually turned his parents’ garage into his own personal laboratory. He eventually attended Princeton University where he joined the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity and graduated with a major in computer science and electrical engineering. He graduated with a grade point average of 4.2, higher than the “perfect score” of 4.0 due to his overwhelming number of “A-pluses” that earned him 4.3 points each.
Amazon.com
With his new degree, Bezos began working with computers on Wall Street. He helped create a computer network for Fitel for use in international trade and later worked for D.E. Shaw & Co. He founded Amazon.com in 1994 and was criticized by many in the industry who projected that his fledgling business would fail. Since Amazon’s original goal was to sell anything, starting with books, many believed that the rival website launched by Barnes and Noble in 1997 would quickly put him out of business. Bezos, however, remained eternally optimistic, even after Amazon shares dropped from $100 to $6 as a result of these criticisms.
Amazon.com flourished and quickly led the market for online retailers. Jeff Bezos has been known to work by numbers and spreadsheets and is well known for his ability to quantify data and statistics into his marketing and business goals. Amazon.com continued to be profitable and grew to sell a wide range of objects both new and used. Bezos has profited from his venture and made it onto Forbes list of the world’s wealthiest people for many years.
Bezos also helped develop Amazon Mechanical Turk, one of Amazon’s web services that maximize computer and human interaction. Bezos introduced the phrase “artificial artificial intelligence” to help explain the principal behind these services. Since humans perform certain tasks better than computers, individuals should continue to perform these activities and leave computers to tasks that are better suited to machines. Humans, for example, are better at recognizing gender in other people, making them better suited for this task. These are known as Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) and Amazon helps promote these tasks by hosting a crowd-surfing marketplace to help match “Requesters” to “Workers”.
Blue Origin Space Company
In 2004, Bezos started a new company centered on human spaceflight called Blue Origin. The concept was originally to create an “enduring human presence” in space through regular sub-orbital trips via specially designed aircrafts. The program eventually focused more on creating greater opportunities for anyone to experience sub-orbital flight. Blue Origin’s named its craft “New Shepherd”. The craft contains more on-board control than ground support, making it more like an airplane than a spacecraft. Blue Origin designed it to take off and land vertically rather than horizontally. They first flew a prototype on November 13, 2006.
Jeff Bezos Net Worth
Jeffrey Bezos was ranked the richest person in the world in 2018 according to several media publications. With an estimated net worth of $112 billion USD he knocked off Bill Gates of Microsoft and stock market investor Warren Buffet to claim the number one position.
The Amazon billionaire also became the first centi-billionaire in US dollars. Meaning he had a fortune of more than one hundred billion dollars.
Even after his 2019 divorce settlement with his wife MacKenzie Bezos he is still one of the wealthiest people in the world. She walked away with $36 billion in Amazon stock making her the third richest woman in the world. Jeff Bezos held on to the title of the richest person in the world and according to the Forbes business magazine the Amazon founder had a net worth of $113 billion in 2020.
Jeff Bezos Quotes
The only way that I can see to deploy this much financial resource is by converting my Amazon winnings into space travel. That is basically it. Blue Origin is expensive enough to be able to use that fortune. I am liquidating about $1 billion a year of Amazon stock to fund Blue Origin. And I plan to continue to do that for a long time. Jeff Bezos
I think the great thing about humans in general is we’re always improving things. And so if entrepreneurs and inventors follow their curiosity and they follow their passions, and they figure something out and they figure out how to make it. And they’re never satisfied. You need to harness that. Jeff Bezos
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