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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 world’s first $1.7 trillion online retailer has become a part of the daily lives of millions of people all over the world, especially now that a pandemic has left many house-bound.
Ronald Gerald Wayne (born May 17, 1934) is an American retired electronics industry business executive. He co-founded Apple Computer Company (now Apple Inc.) as a partnership with Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs on April 1, 1976, providing administrative oversight and documentation for the new venture.
Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon out of his Seattle garage in 1994, is leaving the city and moving to Miami to be near his parents and his space company Blue Origin.
Apple launched a buy now, pay later service called 'Apple Pay Later' for its Apple Wallet users in March 2023. The program allows its users to apply for loans between $50 and $1,000 to make online or in-app purchases and then repaying them through four installments spread over six weeks without any interest or fees. [172] [173]
In 1980, Apple went public to instant and significant financial profitability, making Jobs and Wozniak both millionaires. The Apple II's intended successor, the Apple III, released the same year, was a commercial failure and was discontinued in 1984. According to Wozniak, the Apple III "had 100 percent hardware failures", and that the primary ...
Andrew R. Jassy (born January 13, 1968) [5] is an American business executive who is the president and chief executive officer of Amazon.Before being appointed by Jeff Bezos and the Amazon board during the fourth quarter of 2020, [6] [7] Jassy had been the SVP and CEO of Amazon Web Services from 2003 to 2021.
Brad Stone (born c. 1971) is an American journalist and author. [1] He is the editor of Bloomberg Businessweek since January 2024. He is the author of the books The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (2013), Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire (2021), The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley are Changing the ...