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Who is Jeff Bezos?
| Born | January 12, 1964, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA |
| Year old | 57 years |
| Education | Princeton University (BSE, EECS) |
| Wife | MacKenzie Scott (married 1993; divorced 2019) |
| Children | 4 |
| Partner | Lauren Sánchez (2019–present) |
| Net value | 202.5 billion USD |
| Job | Executive Chairman 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. When he was born, his mother was only 17 years old, a high school student, and his father was a bicycle shop owner. In 1968, the couple separated and his mother married Cuban immigrant Miguel “Mike” Bezos. Mike adopted four-year-old Jorgensen and the surname was later changed to Bezos.
The family moved to Texas, where Bezos attended River Oaks Elementary School in Houston from 4th to 6th grade. The family then moved to Miami, Florida, where Bezos attended Miami Palmetto High School. During the breakfast shift, Bezos worked as a fast food chef at McDonald’s. In 1986, he graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University and earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) in electrical engineering and computer science.
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Jeffrey Preston Bezos: Career
Amazon
In 1986, he was offered a job at Intel, Bell Labs, Andersen Consulting, etc. At the end of 1993, Jeff left his job at DE Shaw and decided to start an online bookstore. On July 5, 1994, he launched Cadabra from his garage and later changed the name to Amazon. His parents invested $300,000 in Amazon. By the end of 1998, Bezos expanded Amazon to other products, initially launching as an online bookstore. In 2000, Bezos borrowed $2 billion from the bank. In 2002, Amazon faced financial difficulties and by 2003, he recovered from the financial turmoil and made a profit of $400 million.
In 2007, Amazon launched the Amazon Kindle. In 2013, he secured a $600 million contract with the CIA on behalf of Amazon Web Services. In May 2016, Bezos sold more than a million shares of his holdings for $671 million, the largest amount Bezos has ever raised from selling his Amazon stock. That same year, in August, he sold another million of his shares for $756.7 million. In July 2017, Jeff quickly became the richest person in the world. That same year, in November, his fortune surpassed $100 billion. On January 29, 2018, he appeared in Amazon’s Super Bowl commercial. On February 1, 2018, the company reported its highest profit ever with quarterly earnings of $2 billion. On March 6, 2018, Jeff was designated by Forbes as the richest person in the world with a net worth of $112 billion.
On July 5, 2021, he stepped down as CEO to devote his energies to other passions.
Blue origin
In September 2000, Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin, a human spaceflight startup. By 2006, the company had purchased a large plot of land in West Texas for a launch and testing facility. In 2011, the company’s driverless prototype crashed during a short-haul test flight. In May 2013, Jeff Bezos met with Virgin Galactic’s chairman, Richard Branson, to discuss commercial spaceflight strategies and opportunities.
In November 2015, the company launched the New Shepard spacecraft, reaching its planned test altitude and returning to the launch site in West Texas.
Blue Origin’s main purpose is to preserve Earth’s natural resources by making humanity multiplanetary. In July 2018, the company announced that Bezos had priced commercial spaceflight tickets at $200,000 to $300,000 per person.
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The 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 technology and media company by restructuring its digital media, mobile platforms and analytics software. Initially, Bezos was accused of unfairly controlling the newspaper’s content, which Bezos and The Washington Post editorial board later denied. In 2016, for the first time since Bezos bought the newspaper, it turned a profit after online readership soared.
Day One Fund
The Bezos Day One Foundation awards annual leadership awards to philanthropic organizations and civic groups doing emergency work to provide shelter and hunger relief to address the immediate needs of young families. The Day One Foundation’s vision statement is ‘No Children Sleep Outside’.
Bezos’s expedition
Jeff Bezos makes personal investments through Bezos Expeditions. He was one of Google’s first shareholders. Bezos invested $250,000 in 1998, yielding 3.3 million Google shares, worth about $3.1 billion in 2017.
He also invests in the healthcare sector, including investments in Unity Biotechnology, GRAIL, Juno Therapeutics and Zocdoc.
Jeff Bezos is also involved in charity work through direct donations and non-profit projects sponsored 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 the parents of 4 children, 3 boys and 1 girl 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 held 75% of Amazon’s 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 selected 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. In addition, he received the James Smithson Medal and the Axel Springer Award.
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