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Bezos' English name is Jeff Bezos, so brother-in-law is the homonym of his English name Jeff.

Biography

Born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen in 1964.

In 1968, he changed his name to Jeffrey Bezos and his family moved to Houston.

In 1982, he graduated with honors from Palmetto High School in Miami.

In 1986, Jeff obtained a double bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University, a prestigious American university, and soon joined a newly established high-tech company in New York.

In 1988, Jeff moved to a New York banker's trust company to manage computer systems with assets worth $250 billion. Two years later, he became the youngest vice president in the history of the banker's trust company at the age of 25.

In 1990, he changed jobs again and started working at D.E. Shaw Investment Management. Two years later, in 1994, at the age of 28, Bezos became the youngest senior vice president of the company.

In 1994, Jeff founded the first online retail company in the United States, AMAZON.COM, with a start-up capital of US$300,000. Jeff named his company after the world's largest river, hoping that it could become the true "Amazon" in the publishing industry.

Cadabra online bookstore was established on July 16, 1995, and later Cadabra was renamed Amazon and reopened in July 1995. Amazon.com, founded by Jeff Bezos, appeared as an online bookstore and began selling the first batch of books online.

From 1998 to 2000, it raised $2.2 billion through bond issuance

In 2000, he was named Person of the Year by Time magazine

In 2007, the Kindle product was launched.

In August 2013, Bezos personally purchased The Washington Post for $250 million.

In January 2019, Jeff Bezos dropped a bombshell on Twitter, announcing that he and his novelist wife MacKenzie had ended their 25-year marriage and would continue to be friends!

Divorce statement

Amazon Introduction

In July 1995, Amazon officially began operations, starting with book sales. The operation was certainly not smooth sailing, and it lost more than $300,000 that year, but Bezos overcame all these setbacks. Similarly, it was also necessary to cultivate people's online shopping habits at the time.

In 1997, Amazon went public, raising $54 million. Amazon was listed on the NASDAQ with a market value of $429 million. It took Amazon only three years from its founding to its listing.

In 2006, Amazon began to provide cloud computing services.

In 2007, Amazon developed the first generation of e-reader Kindle.

Awards

In 1999, he was named Time magazine's Person of the Year.

In July 2017, Bezos received a new award, the Aldrin Space Innovation Award. This award was founded by Buzz Aldrin, an astronaut on the Apollo 11 moon landing mission. Bezos received the glass trophy at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

In December 2017, he was selected as one of the world's 50 most influential people in 2017 by Bloomberg Businessweek.

In April 2018, he was honored as the world's most influential person in 2018 by Time magazine.

In May 2018, Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, won the 2018 Axel Springer Award. (Note: This award is given to outstanding individuals who are particularly innovative, who create and change markets, influence culture, and also face up to their responsibilities to society.)

Wealth Ranking

In February 2014, Jeff Bezos, who was only 50 years old, ranked 7th on the 2014 World Rich List with 225 billion yuan.

In December 2015, foreign media conducted some statistics based on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and found that the personal assets of the world's top 400 richest people shrank by a total of US$19 billion in 2015, but Amazon CEO Bezos' net worth increased by about US$30 billion this year, making him the world's fourth richest person.

In July 2017, the world's richest man finally changed hands. Jeff Bezos surpassed Bill Gates with a fortune of $100 billion and topped the list for the first time.

As of January 8, 2018, Bezos' net worth reached $105.1 billion.

On February 28, 2018, Hurun Research Institute released the "2018 Hurun Global Rich List", and Jeff Bezos became the world's richest man for the first time with a fortune of 775 billion yuan.

In October 2018, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' personal net worth reached $160 billion, making him the first billionaire to have a net worth of over $150 billion in the 30 years that Forbes has been tracking the rich in the United States.

In March 2019, the U.S. Forbes magazine website released the 33rd annual global billionaire list, with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos retaining the top spot with a net worth of $131 billion.

Acting experience

In 2016, he made a cameo appearance in the movie Star Trek Beyond.

In May 2018, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos officially announced that he would take over the fourth season of "The Expanse". "The Expanse" is hailed as the best space opera in recent years. The cancellation of this excellent series prompted fans to launch a massive rescue campaign through social networks.

Blackmail

On February 7, 2019, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos published a blog post on the writing and reading platform Medium, detailing that he was being blackmailed by a party representing the gossip magazine "National Enquirer"

Jeff's Quotes

“Climb the first hill and you will be able to see the next hill from the top”

“A fantastic business generally has four attributes: first, it is in great demand; second, it can grow to a very large scale; third, it has a high return on capital; and fourth, it is time-resistant—that is, it can survive for many years. When you find such a business, you should hold on to it tightly.

charitable

In 2011, Jeff Bezos donated $15 million to their alma mater, Princeton University, to create the Bezos Center for Neural Circuit Dynamics, which develops new technologies for studying brain function.

In August 2011, Bezos donated $10 million to the Seattle Museum of History and Industry, the largest donation the museum has received in its 59-year history. The museum said at the time that it would use the funds to build an innovation center in the new venue, which aims not only to help visitors understand the importance of innovation through interactive experiences, but also to signal that "Seattle has become the birthplace of many great companies."

On October 12, 2013, the Bezos Innovation Center, funded by donations from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, was officially opened.

In 2017, Amazon asked Mary's Place to convert one of its unused properties — a former Travelodge hotel — into a temporary shelter.

In May 2017, Jeff Bezos donated $1 million to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the largest gift ever received by the media watchdog.

Bezos recently donated $35 million to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, in August 2017.

In January 2018, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie donated $33 million to charity, which will be used to provide college scholarships to 1,000 "Dreamers," young immigrant children who were brought to the United States illegally.

In August 2018, Bezos established the "Bezos Day One Fund" (tentative translation, English: the Bezos Day One Fund), pledging to use US$2 billion to help the homeless and create kindergartens in the United States.

In September 2018, he and his wife, MacKenzie, donated $10 million to a nonpartisan fund dedicated to getting veterans elected, his first major political donation.

In September 2018, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced the creation of a $2 billion philanthropic fund called the Bezos Day One Fund. This philanthropic project was co-founded by him and his wife MacKenzie Bezos to support homeless families and educational programs in underserved communities.

In November 2018, Jeff and his wife MacKenzie Bezos donated $97.5 million to 24 organizations providing homelessness services across the United States.

References

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