Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American internet entrepreneur, industrialist, media proprietor, and investor. He is the founder and CEO of the multi-national technology company Amazon. Bezos graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science. He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields from 1986 to early 1994. Bezos founded the aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company Blue Origin in 2000. Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle reached space in 2015, and afterwards successfully landed back on Earth.
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Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American internet entrepreneur, industrialist, media proprietor, and investor. He is the founder and CEO of the multi-national technology company Amazon. Bezos graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science. He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields from 1986 to early 1994. Bezos founded the aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company Blue Origin in 2000. Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle reached space in 2015, and afterwards successfully landed back on Earth. He also purchased the major American newspaper The Washington Post in 2013 for USD 250 million, and manages many other investments through his Bezos Expeditions venture capital firm. In August 2020, according to Forbes, he became the first person in history to have a net worth exceeding USD 200 billion, and as of January 2021, was reported to be the second-richest person in the world, after Elon Musk. Bezos announced that he would step down as the CEO of Amazon sometime in the third quarter of 2021, and transition into the role of executive chairman. The company is currently the world’s largest online sales company, the largest Internet company by revenue, and the largest provider of virtual assistants and cloud infrastructure services through its Amazon Web Services branch. Bezos was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico on January 12, 1964, the son of Jacklyn and Ted Jørgensen. His maternal grandmother was Mattie Louise Gise, through whom he is a cousin of country singer George Strait.
He was high school valedictorian, a National Merit Scholar, and a Silver Knight Award winner in 1982. In his graduation speech Bezos told the audience at Princeton that he dreamed of the day when mankind would colonize space. In 1986, he was offered jobs at Intel, Bell Labs, and Andersen Consulting, among others. He graduated with a 4.2 GPA and a Bachelor of Science in electrical Engineering and computerScience. He has a son, Jeff Bezos, who is a successful venture capitalist and co-founder of Blue Origin, a company that plans to begin commercial suborbital human spaceflight in the near future. Bezos is married to fellow Princeton graduate and former Wall Street trader, Cevallos, and has a daughter, MacIntosh, who has a PhD in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles. He lives in Seattle with his wife and two children. He and his wife have three children, Amazon.com, Blue Origin and Blue Origin. The couple have three grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Bezos and his family live in Washington, D.C. and Houston, Texas, and he has two step-grandchildren. The Bezos family has three step-great-children. Bezos has a great-great nephew and a step-son. The family lives in Miami, Florida, where Bezos attended Miami Palmetto High School in nearby Pinecrest, Florida. He spent many summers in his youth on his family’s ranch near Cotulla, Texas.
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