Jeff Bezos
Online retail founder and businessman
Jeff Bezos is an American businessman who founded a major online retailer and the spaceflight company Blue Origin. He is the author of Invent and Wander.
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American Born 1964 in Albuquerque, United States
About Jeff Bezos
Jeffrey Preston Bezos was born in Albuquerque on January 12, 1964, and was raised in Houston and Miami. He graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with an engineering degree, then worked on Wall Street until early 1994. He founded his online retail company in mid-1994, starting out as a bookstore on the internet. The business later grew into many other products and services, including cloud computing. In July 2021 he stepped down as CEO and became executive chairman. Bezos also founded Blue Origin in 2000 and flew into space on its NS-16 flight in 2021. He bought The Washington Post in 2013. Invent and Wander is the book of his in our catalog.