Amazon Bezos Biography
His father was called Theodore Jorgensen, and the name of his mother is Jacqueline Giz. When the future billionaire was born, his father and mother were 19 and 17 years old, respectively. At birth, the boy received the name Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen. Since Jeff's parents got married at a very young age, their marriage turned out to be fragile, and a few years later, Theodore and Jacqueline divorced.
In April, when Jeff was only four years old, his mother married Miguel Bezos, an emigrant from Cuba. The man adopted Jeff, because of which the latter received a new surname. In the year, he graduated with honors from Princeton University of the United States, having mastered the profession of an electrical engineer and information technology specialist. Since Jeff studied perfectly, by the time he graduated from the university, he without any problems decided on the further life path.
But over time, his career became more successful. We will analyze the main stages. His entrepreneur founded at the end of the year, while traveling from New York to Seattle. In July next year, the Amazon website appeared. Later, other products appeared on the portal, as well as different services. At the same time, the initial investment amounted to thousands of dollars. Since the competition in this area at that time was not as large as today, the site quickly gained popularity.
Just four years after its launch, the American magazine The Time assigned Jeff Bezos the title of man of the year. Amazon is currently leading in the global e -commerce market. On the site you can buy books, videos and audiobooks, computer programs, games, electronics, toys, clothes, furniture, food. The owner of the Blue Origin aerospace company Jeff Bezos, who, from a young age, was fond of science fiction on a space theme, decided to try himself in the aerospace business.
So the entrepreneur founded Blue Origin with headquarters in Kent Washington Kent. Three years later, the company began to work on the prototype of the Charon spacecraft. In November, at the launch pad in Texas, the company experienced its first real Goddard missile. But for a rather long time Blue Origin was more like a Bezos hobby than a serious source of its financial revenues.
Only in March, the company had the first commercial client in the person of the Eutelsat satellite television provider. According to the contract concluded between the companies, for five years, one of the customer companions had to be brought to the orbit of the New Glenn launch vehicle. The next day, the company entered into a contract for the orbit of satellites of the OneWeb Corporation, and in the year NASA chose a Bezos project for the development and creation of prototypes of devices for the landing of astronauts on the moon.
However, then Jeff Bezos married, and he lived in marriage for 25 years. Wife in the year, a businessman met the bachelor of Princeton University Mackenzie Tatl. The girl worked as an assistant to the writer Tony Morrison. In parallel, Mackenzie got a job at Bezos. In the year, the couple played a wedding. Tattle helped her husband build a business, and in September of the year Bezos noted the summer of marriage.
But already in the winter of next year, the couple divorced, and Mackenzie took the name of her grandfather. After the divorce, Bezos began to meet with the former TV presenter Lauren Sanchez. In the year, the couple engaged. Children in the family of Jeff and Mackenzie Bezos were born three sons. In addition, the couple adopted the fourth child, a girl from China. By this time, the businessman had already owned a capital of $ 10.1 billion.
After a year, the entrepreneur began to get rich with a rapid pace, and by the year Jeff Bezos took the first line of the rating of Forbes multimilliarder with capital in billion dollars. In July, the state of the entrepreneur Jeff Bezos, Forbes magazine estimated at 5 billion dollars. At the beginning of the year, Jeff Bezos was in second place in the list of the richest people of the planet with a fortune in billion dollars, losing only to the owner of Space Ilon Mask.
The company on January 16 for the first time launched the New Glenn heavy missile from the Cape Kanveral cosmodrome in Florida. After that, Bezos congratulated another American billionaire - Ilon Musk on a successful start. At the ceremony next to Bezos and his bride stood billionaire Mark Zuckerberg. With his help, he is going to invest $ 10 billion in projects to mitigate the consequences of climate change to the bottom of the ocean on the way into space Bezos paid for the work of extracting the fragments of the Apollo 11 rocket from the Atlantic Ocean.
In the year, on this spaceship, people for the first time landed on the surface of the moon are actively involved in sports from all sports of Bezos prefers tennis and golf likes to read books by Jeff Bezos from childhood likes to spend free time reading books. He prefers science fiction and historical literature 11 List of sources 1. Halkias M. The Dallas Morning News. Brandt R. Jeff Bezos of Amazon: Birth of a Salesman.
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