Jeff Bezos- Biography
Jeff Bezos is an American entrepreneur and the founder of the e-commerce behemoth Amazon.com. He was adopted by Miguel Bezos, a Cuban immigrant when his mother married him. He was born to Jacklyn Gise and Ted Jorgensen. Bezos spent his summers as a boy on his grandfather’s Texas ranch building pipes, vaccinating cattle, and repairing windmills. He attended Miami Palmetto Senior High School before graduating with honors from Princeton University with a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He worked on Wall Street with Fitel, Bankers Trust, and D. E. Shaw & Co, New York. He became D. E. Shaw & Co.’s youngest Vice President.
Despite his achievements, he opted to leave the finance industry. He established Amazon.com, an online bookstore, and eventually added features including one-click buying, user reviews, and e-mail order verification. Jeff expanded it to include clothing, CDs, toys, jewelry, watches, gadgets, and shoes, among other things. He is continually upgrading his website and adding new features for his customers. His childhood ambition of space travel inspired the creation of Blue Origin, an aerospace business that is researching technology to provide clients with access to space travel. Bezos is one of the world’s wealthiest persons, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with an estimated net worth of $28 billion.
Jeff Bezos- Birth, Age, Ethnicity, Siblings, Education
Jeff Bezos was born on January 12, 1964, in Seattle, Washington, to Jacklyn Gise and Ted Jorgensen. His mother’s grandparents were Texas settlers who had amassed a 25,000-acre ranch in Cotulla through the years. When Bezos’ mother married his father, she was a teenager. She married Miguel Bezos, a Cuban immigrant who studied at the University of Albuquerque when her marriage with Ted Jorgensen ended.
Miguel Bezos legally adopted Jeff after their marriage. After that, the family relocated to Houston, Texas, where Miguel worked as an engineer for Exxon. Jeff was a fourth and sixth-grader at River Oaks Elementary School in Houston. The Bezos family relocated to Miami, Florida. He was a student at Miami Palmetto Senior High School. He also attended the University of Florida’s Student Science Training Program, where he got the Silver Knight Award in 1982. While still in high school, he founded the Dream Institute, an educational summer program for fourth, fifth, and sixth graders. He was the valedictorian of his high school.
He enrolled at Princeton University in 1982 to study computers. At Princeton, he was elected to the honor societies Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi.
