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Who is Jeff Bezos?
| Birth | January 12, 1964, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA |
| Age | 57 years |
| Education | Princeton University (EEB, EECS) |
| Wife | MacKenzie Scott (married 1993; divorced 2019) |
| Children | 4 |
| Partners | Lauren Sánchez (2019-present) |
| Net worth | $202.5 billion |
| Occupation | CEO of Amazon and founder of Blue Origin |
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Jeffrey Preston Bezos: birth, family, education
Jeffrey Preston Bezos was born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen on January 12, 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Jacklyn (née Gise) and Ted Jorgensen. At the time of his birth, his mother was only 17 years old and a high school student, while his father owned a bicycle shop. In 1968, the couple separated and his mother married Cuban immigrant Miguel “Mike” Bezos. Mike adopted four-year-old Jorgensen and later changed his last name to Bezos.
The family moved to Texas, where Bezos attended River Oaks Elementary School in Houston from fourth to sixth grade. The family later moved to Miami, Florida, where Bezos attended Miami Palmetto High School. During the breakfast shift, Bezos worked as a McDonald’s short order cook. In the year 1986, he graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University and earned a Bachelor of Engineering (BSE) in electrical and computer engineering.
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Jeffrey Preston Bezos: career
Amazon
In 1986, he was offered a job at Intel, Bell Labs and Andersen Consulting, etc. At the end of 1993, Jeff left his job at DE Shaw and decided to establish an online bookstore. On July 5, 1994 he launched Cadabra from his garage, which was later moved to Amazon. His parents invested $300,000 in Amazon. At the end of 1998, Bezos expanded Amazon to other products, initially launched as an online bookstore. In 2000, Bezos borrowed $2 billion from banks. In 2002, Amazon faced financial difficulties and in the year 2003, it recovered from financial instability and made a profit of $400 million.
In 2007, Amazon launched the Amazon Kindle. In 2013, it secured a $600 million contract with the CIA on behalf of Amazon Web Services. In May 2016, Bezos sold more than one million shares he owned for $671 million, the largest sum Bezos has ever raised from the sale of his Amazon shares. The same year, in August, he sold another million of his shares for $756.7 million. In July 2017, Jeff momentarily became the richest person in the world. That same year, in November, his wealth exceeded $100 billion. On January 29, 2018, he appeared in Amazon’s Super Bowl commercial. On February 1, 2018, the company reported its highest-ever profit with quarterly profits of $2 billion. On March 6, 2018, Forbes named Jeff the richest person in the world with a net worth of $112 billion.
On July 5, 2021, he stepped down as CEO to use his energy on other passions.
blue origin
In September 2000, Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin, a human spaceflight startup. Until 2006, the company purchased a large tract of land in West Texas for a launch and testing facility. In 2011, the company’s unmanned vehicle prototype crashed during a short-haul test flight. In May 2013, Jeff Bezos met with Virgin Galactic Chairman Richard Branson to discuss commercial spaceflight opportunities and strategies.
In November 2015, the company launched the New Shepard space vehicle, which reached the planned test altitude and returned to the launch site in West Texas.
Blue Origin’s main goal is to preserve the Earth’s natural resources by making the human species multiplanetary. In July 2018, the company announced that Bezos had valued commercial space flight tickets at $200,000 to $300,000 per person.
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Washington Post
On August 5, 2013, Jeff Bezos purchased The Washington Post for $250 million in cash. In 2016, he reinvented the newspaper as a media and technology company by rebuilding its digital media, mobile platforms and analytics software. Bezos was initially accused of unfairly controlling the newspaper’s content, which was later dismissed by Bezos and the Washington Post editorial board. In 2016, for the first time since Bezos bought the paper, the paper was profitable after an increase in online readership.
First day background
The Bezos Day One Fund provides annual leadership awards to compassionate organizations and civic groups doing innovative work to provide shelter and hunger supports to address the immediate needs of young families. Day One Fund’s vision statement is “No child sleeps outside.”
Bezos Expeditions
Jeff Bezos makes personal investments through Bezos Expeditions. He is among the first shareholders of Google. Bezos invested $250,000 in 1998, resulting in 3.3 million Google shares, worth about $3.1 billion in 2017.
It also invested in the healthcare sector, including investments in Unity Biotechnology, GRAIL, Juno Therapeutics and Zocdoc.
Jeff Bezos also participates in philanthropic work through direct donations and non-profit projects funded by Bezos Expeditions.
Jeffrey Preston Bezos: personal life
Jeff Bezos met novelist MacKenzie Tuttle in 1992 while working for DE Shaw in Manhattan. The duo married a year later. In 1994, the couple moved to Seattle, Washington, where Bezos founded Amazon. Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Tuttle (now ex-wife) are parents of four children, three sons and one daughter adopted from China.
On January 9, 2019, the couple announced their intention to divorce after a long period of separation. Their divorce was finalized on April 4, 2019. After the divorce, Jeff Bezos owns 75% of Amazon shares and the couple’s voting rights.
Bezos won his first major award in 1999 when Time named him Person of the Year. He was chosen by US News & World Report in 2008 as one of the country’s top leaders. In 2008, Carnegie Mellon University awarded him an honorary doctorate in science and technology. Additionally, he has also received the James Smithson Medal and the Axel Springer Award.
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