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Bezos was born in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and Miami. He graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with degrees in electrical engineering and computer science. He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields from 1986 to early 1994. Bezos founded Amazon in mid-1994 on a road trip from New York City to Seattle.
MacKenzie Scott (born MacKenzie Scott Tuttle, formerly Bezos; April 7, 1970) [1] [2] is an American novelist, philanthropist, co-founder of Amazon and ex-wife of Jeff Bezos.As of December 2024, she has a net worth of US$42.1 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index; owning a 4% stake in Amazon.
In January 2019, Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie Scott, released a joint statement that they would be getting divorced, after 25 years together. [31] [32] In February 2019, Bezos published a statement alleging that National Enquirer publisher American Media, Inc. had attempted blackmail and extortion, in connection with Bezos's affair with ...
Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. With Amazon’s expansion into retail beyond books, the world began to take notice. On Dec. 27, 1999, Bezos graced the cover of Time magazine as “Person of ...
Back in the 90s, Jeff Bezos went on record as hoping his employees would wake up on the wrong side of the bed—for the greater good, or for the customer at the very least.
From biographies to business guides, here are 20 books Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, ... including this Walter Isaacson book on Albert Einstein as well as Isaacon's biography of Benjamin Franklin.
Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon in his Bellevue, Washington garage in 1994. Amazon is an American multinational technology company which focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, and digital streaming. It has been referred to as "one of the most influential economic and cultural forces in the world", [1] and is one of the world's most valuable ...
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon is a 2013 bestselling book written by journalist Brad Stone.It documents the rise of Amazon.com in the 1990s, its near demise during the dot-com bust, and its subsequent revival with the inventions of Amazon Prime, the Kindle and Amazon Web Services.