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1. Jeff Bezos
Bezos at the ENCORE awards in 2011
Born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen
January 12, 1964
Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.
ResidenceSeattle, Washington, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materPrinceton University
OccupationTechnology and retail entrepreneur and
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jeff Bezos (/ˈbeɪzoʊs/;
[3]
born Jeffrey Preston
Jorgensen; January 12, 1964) is an American
engineer, technology and retail entrepreneur,
investor and philanthropist
[4]
who is best known
as the founder, chairman, and chief executive
officer of Amazon.com, which is the world's
largest online shopping retailer.
[5]
The company
began as an Internet merchant of books and
expanded to a wide variety of products and
services, most recently video streaming and audio
streaming. Amazon.com is currently the world's
largest Internet sales company on the World Wide
Web.
[6]
Bezos’s other diversified business interests
include aerospace and newspapers. He is the
founder and manufacturer of Blue Origin
(founded in 2000) with test flights to space
beginning in 2015, and plans for commercial
suborbitalhuman spaceflight beginning in
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2. investor
Known forFounding and leading Amazon.com
and Blue Origin
Managing Bezos Expeditions
Net worthUS$78.4 billion (March 2017)
Spouse(s)MacKenzie Bezos (m. 1993)
[1]
Children4
[2]
2018.
[7]
In 2013, Bezos purchased The
Washington Post newspaper.
[8]
A number of
other business investments are managed through
Bezos Expeditions.
With an estimated net worth of US$78.4 billion
as of March 2017,
[9]
Bezos is currently the third-
richest person in the world just behind Bill Gates
and Amancio Ortega in first and second places,
and just ahead of Warren Buffet in fourth place.
[10][11]
His rise to this position occurred after Amazon registered a 67% jump in share price.
[12]
Contents
1Early life and education
2Business career
2.1Amazon.com
2.2Blue Origin
2.3The Washington Post
2.4Google
2.5Bezos Expeditions
3Philanthropy
4Recognition
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3. 5Criticism
6Personal life
7References
8Further reading
9External links
Early life and education
Bezos was born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen to Jacklyn (née Gise) and Ted Jorgensen in Albuquerque,
New Mexico.
[13]
His maternal ancestors were settlers who lived in Texas, and over the generations
acquired a 25,000-acre (101 km
2
or 39 miles
2
) ranch near Cotulla. As of March 2015, Bezos was
among the largest landholders in Texas.
[14]
Bezos’s maternal grandfather was a regional director of
the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in Albuquerque. He retired early to the ranch, where Bezos
spent many summers as a youth, working with him.
[15]
At an early age, he displayed mechanical
aptitude—as a toddler, he even dismantled his crib with a screwdriver.
[16]
Bezos’s mother Jacklyn was a teenager at the time of his birth. Her marriage to Jorgensen lasted a
little more than a year. In April 1968 (when Jeff was 4) she married her second husband, Miguel
Bezos, a Cuban who immigrated to the United States alone when he was 15 years old. His family
was originally from Valladolid (Spain). Miguel Bezos worked his way through the University of
Albuquerque, married Jacklyn, and legally adopted his stepson Jeff, who changed his surname from
Jorgensen to Bezos. After the wedding the family moved to Houston (Texas) and Miguel worked as
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4. an engineer for Exxon. The young Jeff attended River Oaks Elementary School in Houston from
fourth to sixth grade. As a child, he spent summers working on his grandfather's ranch in southern
Texas.
[17]
Bezos often displayed scientific interests and technological proficiency; he once rigged an electric
alarm to keep his younger siblings out of his room.
[18]
The family moved to Miami, Florida, where
he attended Miami Palmetto High School. While in high school, he attended the Student Science
Training Program at the University of Florida, receiving a Silver Knight Award in 1982.
[19]
He was
high school valedictorian
[20]
and was a National Merit Scholar.
[21]
Bezos graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University with bachelor of
science degrees in electrical engineering and computer science.
[22]
While at Princeton, he was also
elected to Tau Beta Pi. He served as the president of the Princeton chapter of the Students for the
Exploration and Development of Space.
[23]
In 2016 Bezos played a Starfleet official in the movie Star Trek Beyond, later joining the cast and
crew at a San Diego Comic-Con screening.
[24]
Business career
After graduating from Princeton in 1986, Bezos worked on Wall Street in the computer science
field.
[25]
Then he worked on building a network for international trade for a company known as
Fitel.
[26]
He next worked at Bankers Trust.
[27]
Later on he also worked on Internet-enabled business
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5. opportunities at the hedge fund company D. E. Shaw & Co.
[28]
Amazon.com
Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 after making a cross-country drive from New York to Seattle,
writing up the Amazon business plan on the way. He initially set up the company in his garage.
[29]
He had left his well-paying job at a New York City hedge fund after learning "about the rapid
growth in Internet use," which coincided with a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling that exempted mail
order companies from collecting sales taxes in states where they lack a physical presence."
[17]
Bezos is known for his attention to business details. As described by Portfolio.com, he "is at once a
happy-go-lucky mogul and a notorious micromanager. ... an executive who wants to know about
everything from contract minutiae to how he is quoted in all Amazon press releases."
[29]
On August 15, 2015, The New York Times wrote an article entitled "Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big
Ideas in a Bruising Workplace" about Amazon's business practices. Bezos responded to his
employees with a Sunday memo
[30]
claiming it did not represent the company he leads and
challenged its depiction as "a soulless, dystopian workplace where no fun is had and no laughter
heard",
[31]
and to contact him directly if true.
In May 2016, Bezos sold slightly more than one million shares of his holdings in the company for
$671 million, making it the largest amount of money he had ever raised in a sale of his Amazon
holdings.
[32]
On August 4, 2016, he sold 1,000,000 of his shares at a value of $756.7 million. As of
September 21, 2016, Bezos owned 80.9 million shares of Amazon stock, being 16.9% of all shares
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6. outstanding, with a market value of $69.3 billion.
[33]
Blue Origin
In 2000, Bezos founded Blue Origin, a human spaceflight startup company,
[34]
partially as a result
of his fascination with space travel,
[35]
including an early interest in developing "space hotels,
amusement parks, colonies and small cities for 2 million or 3 million people orbiting the Earth."
[20]
The company was kept secret for a few years; it became publicly known only in 2006 when
purchasing a sizable aggregation of land in west Texas for a launch and test facility.
[36]
In a 2011
interview, Bezos indicated that he founded the space company to help enable "anybody to go into
space" and stated that the company was committed to decreasing the cost and increasing the safety
of spaceflight.
[37]
Blue Origin is "one of several start-ups aiming to open up space travel to paying
customers. Like Amazon, the company is secretive, but [in September 2011] revealed that it had lost
an unmanned prototype vehicle during a short-hop test flight. Although this was a setback, the
announcement of the loss revealed for the first time just how far Blue Origin's team had
advanced."
[35]
Bezos said that the crash was 'not the outcome that any of us wanted, but we're
signed up for this to be hard.'"
[35]
A profile published in 2013 described a 1982 Miami Herald
interview he gave after he was named high school class valedictorian. The 18-year-old Bezos "said
he wanted to build space hotels, amusement parks and colonies for 2 million or 3 million people
who would be in orbit. 'The whole idea is to preserve the earth' he told the newspaper .... The goal
was to be able to evacuate humans. The planet would become a park."
[38]
In 2013, Bezos reportedly discussed commercial spaceflight opportunities and strategies with
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7. Richard Branson, multibillionaire founder of Virgin Group and chairman of Virgin Galactic.
[39]
In 2015, Bezos further discussed the motivation for his spaceflight-related business when he
announced a new orbital launch vehicle under development for late-2010s first flight. He indicated
that his ambitions in space are not location dependent—Mars, Lunar, asteroidal, etc.—"we want to
go everywhere, [requiring significantly lower launch costs.] Our number-one opponent is gravity. ...
The vision for Blue is pretty simple. We want to see millions of people living and working in space.
That's going to take a long time. I think it's a worthwhile goal."
[40]
In 2016, Bezos opened up the
Blue rocket design and manufacturing facility to journalists for the first time, and gave extensive
interviews that included an articulation of his vision for space, and for Blue Origin. Bezos sees
space as being "chock full of resources" and foresees a "Great Inversion" where there will emerge
"space commercialization that stretches out for hundreds of years, leading to an era when millions
of people would be living and working in space." He sees both energy and heavy manufacturing
occurring in space, having the effect of reduced pollution on Earth, in effect reducing the probability
that something "bad happens to the Earth."
[7]
Bezos has said that he is trying to change the
fundamental cost structure of accessing space.
[41]
On November 23, 2015, Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle successfully flew to space,
reaching its planned test altitude of 329,839 feet (100.5 kilometers) before executing a historic
vertical landing back at the launch site in West Texas.
[42]
Blue Origin is currently in an extensive
flight test program of New Shepard which expects to begin carrying "test passengers" in 2017 and
initiate commercial flights in 2018.
[7]
Blue is currently building six of the vehicles to support all
phases of testing and operations: no-passenger test flights, flights with test passengers, and
commercial-passenger weekly operations.
[43]
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8. In June 2016, Bezos reiterated his long term goal to see nearly all heavy-industry manufacturing
factories in space as part of a wide-ranging, but rare, interview.
[44]
In September 2016, he added
that he hoped to colonize the solar system.
[45]
Recently, Bezos also revealed that he was selling
about $1 billion in Amazon stock a year to finance his Blue Origin rocket company.
[46]
The Washington Post
On August 5, 2013, Bezos announced his purchase of The Washington Post for $250 million in
cash. Amazon.com was not to be involved.
[47]
"This is uncharted terrain," he told the newspaper,
"and it will require experimentation."
[47]
Shortly after the announcement of intent to purchase, The
Washington Post published a long-form profile of Bezos on August 10, 2013.
[38]
The sale closed on
October 1, 2013, and Bezos's Nash Holdings LLC took control.
[48]
In March 2014, Bezos made his first significant change at The Washington Post and lifted the online
paywall for subscribers of a number of U.S. local newspapers including The Dallas Morning News,
the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
[49]
Bezos revealed in 2016 that he
conducted no due diligence when accepting the first offer from former Washington Post owner
Donald E. Graham.
[50]
Google
Bezos was one of the first investors in Google, investing $250,000 in 1998. That $250,000
investment resulted in 3.3 million shares of Google stock worth about $2.9 billion today.
[51][52]
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9. Bezos Expeditions
Companies that have been funded at least in part by Bezos Expeditions include (this list is
incomplete):
[53][54]
Airbnb – sharing economy
Aviary – software (photo
editing)
Basecamp – software
(project management)
Behance – self-promotion
network
Blue Origin – space travel
Business Insider –
publishing
Crowdrise – for-profit
charitable giving platform
Domo – software (business
intelligence)
D-Wave Systems –
quantum computing
Everfi
[55]
– technology for
education
Finsphere
[56]
– software
(authentication)
General Assembly –
technology education
General Fusion –
sustainable energy (nuclear
fusion)
Glassybaby – supports
cancer patients
Juno Therapeutics – cancer
biopharmaceuticals
Kongregate – online games
Linden Lab – online games
(Second Life)
Lookout – technology
(mobile security)
MakerBot Industries – 3D
printers
MFG.com – manufacturer
direct marketplace
Nextdoor – localized social
networking
Pelago – online games
Powerset – natural-
language search engine
Pro.com – home services
marketplace
Qliance – health care
Rescale – cloud computing
simulations
Rethink Robotics
[57]
–
manufacturing robots
Sapphire Energy –
sustainable energy (crude
oil from algae)
Skytap – cloud computing
Stack Exchange –
technology publishing
TeachStreet – search
engine to find teachers
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10. Twitter – social networking
Uber – sharing economy
Vessel – subscription video
service
Vicarious – artificial
intelligence
Workday – software for
business
ZocDoc – software
(healthcare appointments)
Philanthropy
In July 2012, Bezos and his wife personally donated $2.5 million to support a same-sex marriage
referendum in Washington, which successfully passed.
[58]
Nonprofit projects funded by Bezos Expeditions include
First full-scale prototype Clock of the Long Now, designed to last 10,000 years.
[14][59][60]
–
$42 million
Bezos Center for Innovation at the Seattle Museum of History and Industry – $10 million
[61]
Recovery of two Saturn V first-stage Rocketdyne F-1 engines from the floor of the Atlantic
Ocean.
[62]
They were positively identified as belonging to the Apollo 11 mission's S-1C stage
in July 2013.
[63]
Bezos Center for Neural Circuit Dynamics at Princeton Neuroscience Institute – $15 million
[64]
Bezos Family Foundation, an educational charity
[65]
The foundation gave $10 million in 2009 and $20 million in 2010 to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center.
[66]
Bezos also donated $800,000 to Worldreader, founded by a former Amazon
employee.
[67]
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11. Recognition
He was named Time magazine's Person of the Year in 1999.
[68]
In 2008 he was selected by U.S.
News & World Report as one of America's best leaders.
[69]
Bezos was awarded an honorary
doctorate in Science and Technology from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008. In 2011, The
Economist gave Bezos and Gregg Zehr an Innovation Award for the Amazon Kindle.
[70]
In 2012, Bezos was named Businessperson of The Year by Fortune.
[71]
He is also a member of the
Bilderberg Group and attended the 2011 Bilderberg conference in St. Moritz, Switzerland,
[72]
and
the 2013 conference in Watford, Hertfordshire, England. He was a member of the Executive
Committee of The Business Council for 2011 and 2012.
[73]
According to Forbes, Bezos is listed in October 2016 as the third wealthiest person in the world,
with an estimated net worth of US$72 billion.
[74]
In 2014, he was ranked the best CEO in the world
by Harvard Business Review.
[75]
He has also figured in Fortune's list of Fifty great leaders of the world for three straight years,
topping the list in 2015.
In September 2016, Bezos was awarded the Heinlein Prize for Advances in Space
Commercialization which earned him $250,000. The prize money was donated to the Students for
the Exploration and Development of Space by Bezos.
[76]
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12. Criticism
Bezos was named World's Worst Boss by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), at
their World Congress, in May 2014. In making the award, Sharan Burrow, general secretary of the
ITUC, said "Jeff Bezos represents the inhumanity of employers who are promoting the American
corporate model..."
[77]
An article in the New York Times described working for Bezos and in the
offices of Amazon as a grueling and inhumane experience with many employees regularly being
terminated or quitting.
[78]
Under Bezos’s direction, Amazon has been criticized as "stingy" in its corporate giving practices.
[67][79]
Journalist Shawn McCoy contrasted the philanthropic practices of Amazon and Bezos with the
comparatively more generous Microsoft (also based near Seattle) and fellow billionaire Bill
Gates.
[80]
Some found Bezos more akin to Steve Jobs, who was skeptical of philanthropy and made
few donations.
[81][82]
Personal life
Bezos and his wife MacKenzie have four children.
[38][83]
Ted Jorgensen, his biological father, tried
in vain before his death in 2015 to contact Bezos and be acknowledged as his father.
[84]
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Inside the Mind of Jeff Bezos – Fastcompany.com (August 2004) (http://www.fastcompany.com
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Internet billionaires face off in renewed Texas space race (http://www.brownsvilleherald.com
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