Jeff Bezos - Biography, Amazon, & Facts
                     Jeff Bezos - 
Biography, Amazon, 
& Facts
Who is Jeff Bezos?
Jeff Bezos is an American entrepreneur who played a key role 
in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and chief 
executive officer of Amazon.com, an online retailer. In 2020 
he had a net worth of more than $180 billion.
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Birth
Jeff Bezos was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on January 
12, 1964. He was raised largely in Houston, Texas, and moved 
to Miami, Florida, as a teenager.
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Marriage
Jeff Bezos met novelist MacKenzie Tuttle in 1992 while 
working for D. E. Shaw in Manhattan. The duo married a year 
later. In 1994, the couple moved to Seattle, Washington, 
where Bezos founded Amazon. 
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Early life 
While still in high school, Bezos developed the Dream 
Institute, a centre that promoted creative thinking in young 
students. 
After graduating (1986) summa cum laude from Princeton 
University with degrees in electrical engineering and 
computer science, he undertook a series of jobs before joining 
the New York investment bank D.E. Shaw & Co. in 1990. 
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Career
In 1986, he was offered a job at  Intel, Bell Labs, and 
Andersen Consulting, etc. In late 1993, Jeff left his job at D.E. 
Shaw and decided to establish an online bookstore. On July 5, 
1994, he launched Cadabra from his garage which was later 
changed to Amazon.
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How did Jeff Bezos start 
Amazon?
Jeff Bezos quit his job at an investment bank in 1994 and 
moved to Seattle, Washington, to open a virtual bookstore. 
Working out of his garage with a handful of employees, Bezos 
began developing the software for the site, which he called 
Amazon.com. It sold its first book in 1995.
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Amazon Expansion
By the end of the year 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 distress and in the year 2003, he 
rebounded from financial instability and gained a profit of 
$400 million. 
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Amazon Kindle
In 2007, Amazon launched Amazon Kindle. In 2013, he 
secured a $600 million contract with 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 sum Bezos ever raised 
from selling his Amazon stock. 
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Blue Origin 
In September 2000, Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin which is a 
human spaceflight startup company. Until 2006, the company 
purchased a large tract of land in West Texas for a launch and 
test facility. 
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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 media and technology company by 
reconstructing its digital media, mobile platforms, and 
analytics software.
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Thank you
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