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.