Name - Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen (Jeff Bezos)
Famous - The founder of amazon.com – an online retail giant
Born - January, 12 1964 Albuquerque, New Mexico,USA.
Education
1986 - Jeff Bezos graduated summa cum laude (highest academic honor) and phi beta kappa (academic honor society) from Princeton University with two Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
- While at Princeton Jeff Bezos was also elected to tau beta pi. (An Engineering honor society
- Jeff Bezos served as the President of the Princeton chapter of the students for the exploration of development of space.
- Jeff Bezos worked on Wall Street for 8 years after graduating from Princeton University
1994 - Jeff Bezos found amazon.com in Seattle
June, 1995 - Jeff Bezos company amazon.com started as a book seller (cadabra) and by the next year
1996 it was on the front page of the wall street journal
June, 1995 - Jeff Bezos received a request from the yahoo.com founder Jerry Yang asking if Jeff Bezos was ok if Jerry Yang will place amazon on yahoo.com website.
1998 - Jeff Bezos was among the first investors in Google. Investing $250,000 in 1998
2000 - Jeff Bezos founded blue origin, a human spaceflight startup company that aims to help anybody to go into space
August 5, 2013 - Jeff Bezos announced his purchase of the Washington post for $250 million in cash
Awards & recognitions
1999 – Jeff Bezos was named by the time magazine as the person of the year
2008 - Jeff Bezos was selected by the US news & world reports as one of americas best leader
2008 – Jeff Bezos was awarded an honorary doctorate in science and technology from Carnegie Mellon University
2011 – The economists gave Jeff Bezos and Gregg Zehr an innovation award for the amazon kindle
2012 - Jeff Bezos was named the business person of the year by fortune
May 2014 – Jeff Bezos was named the world worst by international trade union confederation (Ituc) at their world congress.
2015 - Jeff Bezos was among the largest land holders in Texas.
- Jeff Bezos is a member of the Bilderberg group and attended the 2011 Bilderberg conference in st moritz, Switzerland and in 2013 in Watford in England
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