Founder and CEO of īezos opened, named after the meandering South American river, on July 16, 1995, after asking 300 friends to beta test his site. He quit his job in 1994, moved to Seattle and targeted the untapped potential of the Internet market by opening an online bookstore. While his career in finance was extremely lucrative, Bezos chose to make a risky move into the nascent world of e-commerce. Career in FinanceĪfter graduating from Princeton, Bezos found work at several firms on Wall Street, including Fitel, Bankers Trust and the investment firm D.E. It was during high school that he started his first business, the Dream Institute, an educational summer camp for fourth, fifth and sixth graders. He moved to Miami with his family as a teenager, where he developed a love for computers and graduated valedictorian of his high school. When Bezos was 4 years old, his mother remarried Mike Bezos, a Cuban immigrant.īezos graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1986 with a degree in computer science and electrical engineering.īezos showed an early interest in how things work, turning his parents' garage into a laboratory and rigging electrical contraptions around his house as a child. The Jorgensens were married less than a year. Early Life and Educationīezos was born on January 12, 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to a teenage mother, Jacklyn Gise Jorgensen, and his biological father, Ted Jorgensen. In February 2021, Amazon announced that Bezos will step down as CEO in the third quarter of the year. In 2013, Bezos purchased The Washington Post, and in 2017 Amazon acquired Whole Foods. Four years later, Bezos quit his lucrative job to open, an online bookstore that became one of the Internet's biggest success stories.

After graduation, he worked on Wall Street, and in 1990 he became the youngest senior vice president at the investment firm D.E. Born in 1964 in New Mexico, Bezos had an early love of computers and studied computer science and electrical engineering at Princeton University. His successful business ventures have made him one of the richest people in the world. Entrepreneur and e-commerce pioneer Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of the e-commerce company Amazon, owner of The Washington Post and founder of the space exploration company Blue Origin.

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