Jeff Bezos

Entrepreneur and e-commerce pioneer Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon, the e-commerce company. He is also the owner of The Washington Post and the space exploration company Blue Origin. Jeff Bezos was born on January 12, 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico and since childhood, he has taken a liking to computers that paved the way for the person he has become.

Jeff Bezos Basic Information

Name	Jeff Preston Bezos
Category	Entrepreneur
Nationality	American
Alma Mater	Princeton University
Occupation	Businessman, Investor, Computer Engineer
Net Worth	US $160 billion
Birth Place	Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S
Age	56

 

Jeff Bezos Family and Personal Details

Parents	Jacklyn Gise Jorgensen                                               Ted Jorgensen
Spouse (s)	MacKenzie Tuttle (m. 1993, div. 2019)
Children	4
Religion	N/A

 

Jeff Bezos Company Profile

Name	Amazon
Industry	E-commerce, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, consumer electronics, digital distribution, self-driving cars
Founded in	July 5, 1994
Headquarter	Seattle, U.S
Areas served	Worldwide
Website	www.amazon.com

 

Some lesser known facts about Jeff Bezos

• Jeff Bezos started his first business – the Dream Institute, when he was in high school, which was an educational summer camp for school kids.
• In 1990, he became D.E. Shaw’s youngest vice president and despite his successful career in finance, he decided to take risks and foray into e-commerce which was at a nascent stage back then.
• Amazon was first launched in 1995 as a website that only sold books.
• Though Amazon is a huge success today, Bezos had numerous failures along the way. Some of these include fire phone, amazon local, amazon wallet, music importer, etc. However, the entrepreneur says that his other experiments that have succeeded such as amazon prime, amazon kindle and other have paid for the failures.