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Jeffrey Preston Bezos (/ ˈ b eɪ z oʊ s / BAY-zohss; [2] né Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company.
In 1994, Bezos left his job as a vice president at D. E. Shaw & Co., a Wall Street firm, and moved to Seattle, Washington, where he began to work on a business plan [6] for what would become Amazon.com. On July 5, 1994, Bezos initially incorporated the company in Washington state with the name Cadabra, Inc. [7] After a few months, he changed ...
Amazon was founded on July 5, 1994, by Jeff Bezos after he relocated from New York City to Bellevue, Washington, near Seattle, to operate an online bookstore. Bezos chose the Seattle area for its abundance of technical talent from Microsoft and the University of Washington , as well as its smaller population for sales tax purposes and the ...
Jeff Bezos, Amazon. Age: 57 Net worth: $213.9 billion How he changed the way we live: Jeff Bezos founded Amazon, which announced sales of over $386 billion for 2020, up 38% over 2019 -- an ...
Founder and chairman of Amazon, founder of Blue Origin and owner of the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos is the third richest person in the world, according to Forbes.. The entrepreneur has found a way ...
Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos is no stranger to turning a profit.In fact, Amazon, the once small online bookstore turned trillion-dollar company, has been on a skyrocketing, money ...
Amazon logo The Amazon Spheres, part of the Amazon headquarters campus in Seattle. Amazon.com, Inc. is an American conglomerate headquartered in Seattle, Washington.Founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994, as an online bookstore, Amazon went public after an initial public offering on May 15, 1997, during the midst of the dot-com bubble. [1]
Founds Amazon.com. In 1994, Bezos and his wife, Mackenzie, moved to Seattle, where he founded Amazon.com with a $10,000 personal investment along with $84,000 in interest-free loans over the next ...