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At the time of Jeff's birth, his mother was a 17-year-old high-school student and his father was 19. [10] Ted was a Danish American unicyclist [11] born in Chicago to a family of Baptists. [12] After completing high school despite challenging conditions, Jacklyn attended night school, bringing her baby with her. [13]
Jacklyn Bezos gave birth to daughter Christina and then son Mark Bezos. [10] Twenty years after starting, Jacklyn graduated from Saint Elizabeth College at the age of 40. [2] In 1995, Jacklyn and Miguel loaned Jeff US$245,573 to start Amazon.com, [11] giving them both 6% equity. [12] Later they relocated to Florida. [5]
Gise gave birth to Jeff Bezos on January 12, 1964, [2] two weeks after Gise's 17th birthday. [9] They named the child Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen at birth. [1] [2] Jorgensen drank alcohol problematically, and struggled financially. [10] He supplemented his circus income by working at the Globe department store while studying at the University of ...
Bezos took an unusual approach to raising his four kids at times. He said in 2017 that he let his kids use "sharp knives" from the age of 4 and power tools at 7 or 8 years old.
In November 2023, Bezos announced the news via a throwback video on Instagram, showing him inside his Seattle garage where he founded Amazon, the multinational tech trillion-dollar company in 1994.
Jeff Bezos is leaving Seattle, where the billionaire founded Amazon out of a garage nearly three decades ago. In a Thursday night Instagram post, the 59-year-old Bezos announced plans to return to ...
In January 2019, Bezos and his wife MacKenzie Scott released a joint statement that they would be getting divorced after 25 years together. [29] [30] In February 2019, Bezos published a blog post alleging that National Enquirer publisher American Media, Inc. had attempted blackmail and extortion in connection with Bezos's affair with Sánchez. [31]
A resurfaced video making the rounds on X shows a pre-famous Jeff Bezos explaining in 1997 why he founded Amazon—namely, a “startling statistic” he came across that web usage was growing at ...