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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.
Amazon announced that e-book sales for its Kindle reader outnumbered sales of hardcover books for the first time ever. [115] 2011: January: Acquisitions, International: Amazon acquires Lovefilm, a DVD rental service known as the Netflix of Europe. [116] 2011: February 16: Competition: Borders Group, outcompeted by Amazon, applies for Chapter 11 ...
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos described Kaphan as "the most important person ever in the history of Amazon.com," [1] and Brad Stone wrote in his book about Amazon, The Everything Store, that "Kaphan was an introverted hacker with an idealistic streak and little intuitive leadership ability."
Miguel Ángel "Mike" [1] Bezos Pérez (born () September 29, 1945) is a Cuban-American billionaire and philanthropist who provided the initial investment to launch Amazon.com. He is a co-founder of the Bezos Family Foundation. He is the adoptive father of Jeff Bezos, the father of Mark Bezos and the husband of Jackie Bezos.
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] Jacklyn and her husband are co-founders of, [13] and major donors to, the Bezos Family Foundation. [14] Through the foundation, they donated $710.5 million to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. [15]
Amazon websites are country-specific (for example, amazon.com for the US and amazon.co.uk for UK) though some offer international shipping. [51] Visits to amazon.com grew from 615 million annual visitors in 2008, [52] to more than 2 billion per month in 2022. [citation needed] The e-commerce platform is the 12th most visited website in the ...
Limp is known to be trusted by Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon as well as Blue Origin. [3] Limp decided to join Blue Origin as CEO after Bezos proposed it to him. Although Limp's initial feeling was that he didn't know a lot about rockets, Bezos convinced Limp over a couple of months.
Its founders, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, were the companies first and second CEOs. Andy Grove, who was brought in shortly after the company’s founding, took over as CEO in 1987.