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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.
The company, originally named Cadabra, was founded in the converted garage of Bezos's house for symbolic reasons and was renamed to Amazon in November 1994. [24] The Amazon website launched for public sales on July 16, 1995, and initially sourced its books directly from wholesalers and publishers.
Company: Amazon founded. [97] 1995 July 16 Launch Amazon launches its online bookstore. 1997: May 15: Company: Amazon IPOs at $18.00/share, raising $54 million. [97] 1998: April 27: Acquisitions: Amazon acquires the Internet Movie Database, a comprehensive repository for movie information on the Internet. [98] 1998: August 5: Company Direction
First job: Ad executive, 1960. Salary then: $6,541 per year. That salary today: $69,278 per year. CNN founder-turned-philanthropist Ted Turner had dreams of joining the Navy, but fate had another ...
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 ...
Elon Musk has been working on the Optimus humanoid robot for years. At Tesla's Robotaxi event last month, the robots poured drinks and played rock-paper-scissors with guests ( though they were ...
Elon Reeve Musk (/ ˈ iː l ɒ n m ʌ s k /; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman known for his key roles in the space company SpaceX and the automotive company Tesla, Inc. He is also known for his ownership of X Corp. (the company that operates the social media platform X, formerly Twitter), and his role in the founding of the Boring Company, xAI, Neuralink, and OpenAI.
Musk joined Tesla as a venture capital backer and co-founder in 2003. Tesla ’s first car was the roadster, and the company spent several years dominating the EV market, although it has recently ...