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                                                                Jeff Bezos

        Born: 12 January 1964 {age 57 years}, Albuquerque,New Mexico, US

              Spouse: Mackenzie Scott [1993- 2019].

              Net Worth: 20,370 crores USD [2021].

              Height: 1.71m 

              Partner: Lauren Sanchez

              Children: Three son's and a Daughter [adopted from China].

              Relations: Ted Jorgensen, Miguel Bezos[Father], Jacklyn Bezos[Mother]

                                     Christina Bezos[Sister], Mark Bezos[Brother].

              Education: Princeton University [1982- 1986], Miami Palmetto Senior                                         High School [1982].

Jeff Bezos Introduction

        Jeff Bezos is full of surprises. When he was interviewed on the television news show 60 Minutes in December 2013, he proved it. He told the news team he had a secret. He claimed they would never guess what it was. He told them if they could guess it, they must be very lucky. With that kind of luck, he said, he would give them half his money and send them to a casino. Bezos, the founder of the shopping website Amazon.com, has an estimated net worth of more then $25 billion.

                    He was confident they couldn't guess his secret. Bezos was right. The news team had no idea what the secret could be.At the end of the interview, Bezos took them into a room in Amazon Lab126. This research and development department in Cupertino, California, is where his company studies new ideas.

            Inside the news team saw Bezos's visionary plan for the future of package delivery. There were several small flying robots, known as drones. Each had eight helicopter- like rotors, spinning blades that propel it into the air. the robots were black and yellow with long, spidery legs.

Early Life

                            

Jeff was born on January 12, 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His mother, Jacquelyn Gise, was married for only a short time to his biological father, Ted Jorgensen. Bezos has no memory of him.

                    Instead Bezos thinks of Miguel Bezos as his father. Miguel, also known as Mike, married Jacquelyn in 1968 whan Jeff was four years old. Mike legally adopted Jeff at that time. Two years later, his sister, Christina, and brother, Mark, were born.Jeff's parents recognized his creativity when he was three years old. One day Jacquelyn found him playing with a screwdriver. He was trying to turn his crib into a bed.

When Jeff was four, the Bezos family moved to Houston, Texas. Jeff spent summers with his mother's parents on a ranch in Cotulla, Texas.Jeff's grandfather, Lawrence preston Gise, nurtured Jeff's ingenuity.

A Talented Student

Jeff liked school, and he excelled at it. His teachers noticed he was very bright. He was placed in the advanced student program at Houston's River Oaks Elementary. In 1974, when jeff was in fourth grade, his school got a computer. Computers were new to most people, and the teachers didn't know how to use them. Jeff stayed after school and figured out how to make the school's computer work. this experience sparked jeff's interest in computers.

Jeff Bezos Amazon Explodes

                                

Amazon's success changed the way books were sold. Bezos had pioneered a new path. Many established booksellers followed him. Two months after Amazon.com launched, it was selling $20,000 worth of books each week. In its first year, the company spent more money than it made. this left Amazon with a $303,000 loss. Bezos needed more money to stay in business.

                He approached investor called venture capitalists and asked for money. Venture capitalists invest money in small businesses they think may grow. In December 1995, venture capitalists invested $981,000 in Amazon.

From the beginning, Bezos was much more concerned about growth than profit. Even when the company earned money, Bezos reinvested it back into the business. His theory was that waiting longer for a return would give him an edge because other businesses are rarely so patient. In November 1997, Amazon opened its First fulfillment center in New Castle, Delaware.

Jeff Discovers the Internet

                                

David Shaw ended up being the one who set Bezos off on the path that led to opportunity. In 1994, he asked Bezos to look at this new thing becoming all the buzz, something called the Internet. It was a piece of technology that seemed to be coming togather with elements that just might create opportunities for a company that used computer networks to conduct stock trades.

                Until recently, research labs, and government institutions to exchang information. one key step toward change was taken in 1990, when Tim Berners- Lee created the first Internet Browser, called Wourld Wide Web. Another came in 1991, when the Internet was opened up to commercial use for the first time.It took several more years before these changes caught on and spread to popular awareness.

Quotes From Jeff Bezos

"Your brand is what other people say about you when you're not in the room'.,

"You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate".,

"I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying".,

"A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny because shiny doesn't last".,

" if you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail".,

"We want to make money when people use our devices, not when they buy our devices".