Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos (born January 12, 1964, Albuquerque,

New Mexico, U.S.) American entrepreneur who
played a key role in the growth of e-commerce as
the founder and chief executive officer of
Amazon.com, Inc., an online merchant of books
and later of a wide variety of products. Bezos had
an early love of computers and studied computer
science and electrical engineering at Princeton
University.
 Early Life and Education
Jeff Bezos’s mother was Jacklyn Gise
Jorgensen, and his biological father was Ted
Jorgensen. The Jorgensens were married less
than a year. When Bezos was 4 years old, his
mother remarried Mike Bezos.
He moved to Miami with his family as a
teenager, where he developed a love for
computers and graduated valedictorian of his
high school. It was during high school that he
started his first business, the Dream Institute.
After high school, Bezos attended Princeton
University. He graduated summa cum laude in
1986 with a degree in computer science and
electrical engineering.
 Amazon.com
Amazon quickly became the leader in e-commerce. Open 24 hours a day, the site was user-
friendly, encouraging browsers to post their own reviews of books and offering discounts,
personalized recommendations, and searches for out-of-print books. In June 1998 it began
selling CDs, and later that year it added videos.
Amazon diversified even further in 2006 by introducing Amazon Web Services (AWS), a cloud-
computing service.
Amazon registered record profits.
 Personal life
Bezos met MacKenzie Scott when they
both worked at D.E. Shaw: he as a
senior vice president and she as an
administrative assistant. Bezos and Scott
have four children together: three sons
and a daughter adopted from China.
Scott was an integral part of the
founding and success of Amazon,
helping create Amazon’s first business
plan and serving as the company’s first
accountant.