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American entrepreneur Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon.com. In 2013, he purchased the "Washington Post."

E-commerce pioneer and entrepreneur Jeff Bezos was born January 12, 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Bezos was an early computer love, and Princeton University to study computer science and electronic engineering. After graduation, he worked on Wall Street, and in 1990 he became the investment firm DE Show the youngest senior vice president. Four years later, he left his lucrative job to open Amazon.com, a virtual bookstore, which has become one of the most successful Internet. In 2013, Bezos bought the Washington Post transaction in the amount of $ 25 billion.


Early life and career

Jeff Bezos was born January 12, 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico to a teenage mother, Jacklyn Giza Jorgensen and his biological father, Ted Jorgensen. The hotel Jørgensens married less than the previous year, when Bezos 4 years old, his mother remarried to a Cuban immigrant Mike Bezos.

As a child, Jeff Bezos showed an early interest in how things work, to his parents' garage in the laboratory and rigging at his family's electric stuff. He moved to Miami with his family as a teenager, he developed a love of computers and high school valedictorian of his graduating. He was in high school, he started his first business, a dream institutes, educational summer camps fourth, fifth and sixth grade.

Bezos pursuit at Princeton University, where he graduated with honors in 1986 obtained a degree in computer science and electrical engineering, computer his interest. After graduation, he found that some of Wall Street firms, including public telecommunications, banking and trust and investment company German exhibition of work. There he met his wife, Mackenzie, and became the youngest vice president in 1990.

Although his financial career is very profitable, Bezos decided to e-commerce development in a world of adventure move. He resigned in 1994 to work, he moved to Seattle, and by opening the potential for the Internet online bookstore market untapped.

Innovative E-commerce

Bezos in his garage, where there are several employees together, he began developing software, created his young company office. They have expanded their activities in the two bedroom house, equipped with three solar Microstation and final test website development. Invite 300 friends to the base after the test, Bezos opened Amazon.com, named after the South American river winding, July 16, 1995.

The company's initial success was a meteor. In the absence of news and propaganda, Amazon.com sold throughout the United States, and within 30 days of the 45 foreign books. Two months later, sales reached $ 20,000 a week grew faster than Bezos and his business team expected to be fast.

Amazon.com 1997 listing, which led many market analysts questioned whether the company can maintain its own traditions, the retailer launched its own e-commerce site. Two years later, the introduction of not only preserved, but also ahead of the competition and become a leader in e-commerce.

Bezos continued to diversify sales of CD and tape Amazon transactions in 1998, and later the clothing, electronics, toys and more through major retail partnership. While many in the early 1990s collapse of the Internet bubble, the Amazon and the booming sales, which in 2011 increased from $ 510,000 in 1995 to over one billion $ 17

In 2006, Amazon.com launched a video service on demand; first is called Amazon Unbox to TiVo, he was eventually renamed the Amazon Instant Video. The company launched a digital book reader Kindle, Pocket PC 2007, which allows users to purchase, download, read, and store their selections of the book. In the same year, Bezos announced that its Blue Origin, a Seattle aerospace company that develops technology to provide space travel pay customer investment.

Bezos added to the tablet market with Kindle Fire of Amazon opened in 2011. The following month, he announced the new Kindle Fire HD, the company's next-generation tablet designed to run for their money on Apple's iPad. "We have not established in a certain price best tablet. We have established the best at any cost tablet," Bezos said, according to ABC News.



Customers who bought "Washington Post"

Bezos around the world August 5, 2013 headlines, when he bought the Washington Post and the Washington Post and the parent company for $ 2.5 million of other publications linked. The deal ended a four-year reign for many generations Post Graham family, which includes Donald Graham, chairman and chief executive officer of the company, after the release of his niece Catherine Weymouth.

"Fasting can achieve profitability in the company's stake in the survival and for the foreseeable future," Graham said, trying to explain the deal. "But we want to do more to survive. I'm not saying it can guarantee success, but it gives us a better chance of success."

In a statement released to employees August 5, Bezos wrote: "The postage value should not be changed ... there is, of course, change in the next few years in this position is important, nothing with or without a new online features almost no change occurs all the members of the news business news: .. shorten cycle destroy long-term reliable source of revenue, and allow a new type of competition, some of which cost little or no interview has no map, and draw the way forward will be difficult, we need to innovate, which means we need to test our touchstone readers know that they care about the government, local leaders, opening a restaurant, reconnaissance troops, businesses, charities, governor , sports, and work from there. I am very happy and optimistic mood scope of the invention. "

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In early December 2013, when he opened Bezos called «Amazon Air" using drones remotely controlled machine that can perform many manual tasks and new experiments Amazon initiative headlines: to provide delivery services in accordance with shellfish Southworth these UAVs can carry items weighing up to five lbs, and can move to within a distance of 10 miles from the distribution center. he also said that the Prime Minister, the air only after four or five years to become a reality.

Bezos was responsible for several major mistakes Amazon, when the company launched a mobile fire in 2014; criticized for being too trick, the next year it was discontinued. However, Bezos on Amazon winning development studio with original content by. After several new show premiered in 2013, Amazon has hit it big in 2014 with the critically acclaimed jungle transparent and Mozart. By 2015, the company produced and released Spike Lee Chi RAQ as its first original feature film.

In 2016, Bezos stood in front of the camera to play a cameo beyond Star Trek aliens. Star Trek fan since childhood, Bezos brought a Starfleet official list of film credits in the IMDB.

William Henry Gates was born October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington. As the main Microsoft founder Bill Gates is one of the most influential and wealthiest people on the planet. According to recent estimates, his wealth put him on the $ 56 billion, which is equivalent to the combined GDP of a number of African countries. In recent years, he retired from full-time at Microsoft, and instead focused on the work with his charitable foundation "Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation"

Bill Gates at Microsoft




Bill Gates founded Microsoft GatesBill in 1976 when he formed a contract with the mitts (Micro-Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) for the development of the base operating system for its new microcomputers. In the early days of Bill Gates will consider each line of code. He was also involved in several aspects of Microsoft's business, such as packing and shipping orders.

The big breakthrough for Microsoft came in 1980, when IBM approached them for the new base operating system for its new computers. In the early 1980s, IBM became the leading PC manufacturer. Nevertheless, more and more, there developed many IBM PC clones; (PC, developed by other companies that are compatible with IBM 's). Microsoft worked hard to sell its operating system for these other companies. Therefore, Microsoft managed to get a dominant position in the software industry, as well as the personal computer market has started to grow. From the beginning of his reign, no other company has come close to displacing Microsoft as the dominant supplier of software for computer-controlled operating.

Bill Gates - Windows


In 1990, Microsoft released the first version of Windows. It was a breakthrough in the operating software, as it replaced the text-based interface with a graphical interface. He soon became a bestseller and was able to capture a large market share of operating systems. In 1995, Windows 95 was released, setting new standards and capabilities for operating systems. This version of Windows, was the basis for all future versions of Windows 2000 to the latest XP and Vista.

Throughout his time in office, Bill Gates was interested in Microsoft's business diversification. For example from the Microsoft Internet Explorer was the dominant web browser, although this is mainly because it comes pre-installed on most new computers, and has seen its share of the market slip in recent years.

One area where Microsoft has never been successful in the field of search engines. MSN Live Search has struggled to get more than 5% market share. Therefore, Microsoft was small compared with Google. However, the Microsoft success in turning various aspects of the software market has led, in some cases, anti-trust. In 1998, the United States against Microsoft, Microsoft was very close split into three smaller firms. However, the Microsoft has been able to address in order to survive as a company.

Philanthropy - Bill Gates


Bill Gates married Melinda French (married in 1992). They have three children, Jennifer (1996), Rory (1999) and Phoebe (2002). With his wife, Gates formed the Bill & Melinda. Bill Gates said that much of the inspiration came from the example of David Rockefeller. Like Rockefeller, Gates seeks to focus on global issues ignored by the government; He also expressed interest in improving the public school in the United States standards. He has appeared with Oprah Winfrey, to help in achieving this goal. As for charitable, philanthropic Gates Foundation has also received support from the investor Warren Buffett, who has given $ 17 billion, through the Gate.

Since 2008, Gates worked full-time on his philanthropic interests. According to estimates, Gates and his wife Melinda have given $ 28 billion through a charitable foundation - including $ 8 billion to improve health worldwide.

Gates said that he had no use for money, and leave only a small percentage of his wealth to his children. In an interview with Daily Telegraph, Gates said:

"I, of course, well taken care of in terms of food and clothing," he says, redundantly. "Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. Its usefulness is entirely in building the organization and receive resources of the poorest in the world."
Its main areas of interest were philanthropy improve health, in particular, helps to reduce diseases such as polio, that affect young children. He is also to pay more attention to environmental issues. In 2015, he gave $ 1 billion in clean energy project because he sees support for new "green" technologies as a way to help cope with global warming.