It was during high school that he started his first business, the Dream Institute, an educational summer camp for fourth, fifth and sixth graders.Īfter high school, Bezos attended Princeton University. He moved to Miami with his family as a teenager, where he developed a love for computers and graduated valedictorian of his high school. When Bezos was 4 years old, his mother remarried Mike Bezos, a Cuban immigrant.īezos showed an early interest in how things work, turning his parents’ garage into a laboratory and rigging electrical contraptions around his house as a child. The Jorgensens were married less than a year. Jeffrey Preston Bezos, known as Jeff Bezos, was born on January 12, 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to a teenage mother, Jacklyn Gise Jorgensen, and his biological father, Ted Jorgensen. Quick FactsĪSTROLOGICAL SIGN: Capricorn Early Life and Education His successful business ventures have made him one of the richest people in the world his estimated net worth is $137.9 billion as of May 2023. He started Blue Origin in 2000, then in 2013, Bezos purchased The Washington Post.
Four years later, Bezos quit his lucrative job to open, an online bookstore that became one of the internet’s biggest success stories. After graduation, he worked on Wall Street, and in 1990, he became the youngest senior vice president at the investment firm D.E. Born in 1964 in New Mexico, Bezos had an early love of computers and studied computer science and electrical engineering at Princeton University.
Personal Life: Ex-Wife, Fiancée, and KidsĮntrepreneur and e-commerce pioneer Jeff Bezos is the founder and executive chair of the e-commerce company Amazon, owner of The Washington Post, and founder of the space exploration company Blue Origin.Philanthropy: Bezos Day One Fund and Earth Fund.Amazon: Start and Success Through the Years.
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