Jeffrey Preston Bezos
Jeff Bezos 2005
Born	January 12, 1964 (1964-01-12) (age 44) Albuquerque, New Mexico
Occupation	Chairman and CEO of Amazon.com
Net worth	▲US$8. Events 475 - Basiliscus becomes Byzantine Emperor, with a coronation ceremony in the Hebdomon palace in Constantinople Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. A chief executive officer ( CEO) or chief executive is typically the highest-ranking corporate officer ( executive) or administrator Amazoncom Inc ( is an American electronic commerce ( E-commerce) company in Seattle Washington. 2 billion (2008)

Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is the founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Amazon.com. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 475 - Basiliscus becomes Byzantine Emperor, with a coronation ceremony in the Hebdomon palace in Constantinople Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. Amazoncom Inc ( is an American electronic commerce ( E-commerce) company in Seattle Washington. Bezos, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University, worked as a financial analyst for D. E. Shaw & Co. before founding Amazon in 1994. The Phi Beta Kappa Society is an academic Honor society with the mission of "fostering and recognizing excellence" in the Undergraduate Liberal arts Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. A quantitative analyst is a person who works in finance using numerical or quantitative techniques D E Shaw & Co is a New York -based Hedge fund, Private equity and technology development firm whose activities center on various aspects of the intersection Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) He was named Time magazine's Person of the Year in 1999. Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is a weekly American Newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and Person of the Year (formerly Man of the Year) is an annual issue of the United States Newsmagazine Time that features and profiles ^[1]

Contents 1 Biography 2 Career 3 Artificial artificial intelligence 4 Estimated wealth 5 References 6 External links

Biography

Bezos' maternal ancestors were settlers in Texas, and over the generations had acquired a 25,000 acre (101 km² or 39 miles²) ranch in Cotulla. Texas ( is a state geographically located in the South Central United States and is also known as the Lone Star State. A ranch is an area of landscape including various structures given primarily to the practice of ranching the practice of raising grazing livestock such as Cattle Cotulla is a city in La Salle County, Texas, United States. The population was 3614 at the 2000 census Bezos's maternal grandfather was a regional director of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in Albuquerque. The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC was an agency of the United States government established after World War II by Congress to foster and control He retired early to the ranch, where Bezos spent most summers of his youth, working with his grandfather at the enormously varied tasks essential to the operation. At an early age, he displayed a striking mechanical aptitude. When a toddler, he tried dismantling his crib with a screwdriver. ^[2]

Bezos was born when his mother, Jackie Bezos, was still in her teens. Her marriage to his father lasted little more than a year. She remarried when Bezos was five. Bezos's stepfather, Miguel Bezos, was born in Cuba; he migrated to the United States alone at age 15 and worked his way through the University of Albuquerque. The Republic of Cuba (ˈkjuːbə or) consists of the island of Cuba (the largest and second-most populous island of the Greater Antilles) Isla de la The University of Albuquerque was a Catholic University in Albuquerque New Mexico, which closed in 1986 When he married Bezos's mother, the family moved to Houston, Texas, and Miguel Bezos became an engineer for Exxon. Exxon is a brand of fuel sold by ExxonMobil. History Exxon formally replaced the Esso, Enco, Bezos attended River Oaks Elementary in Houston from the 4th to 6th grades. History River Oaks Elementary opened in 1928 As the school grew more classrooms were added onto the school

Bezos showed intense and varied scientific interests at an early age. He rigged an electric alarm to keep his younger siblings out of his room and maintain his secrecy. He converted his parents' garage into a laboratory for his science projects. The family moved to Miami, Florida, where Bezos attended Miami Palmetto Senior High School. This article is about the high school in Pinecrest Florida For other high schools with the same name see Palmetto High School (disambiguation. ^[3] While in high school, he attended the Student Science Training Program at the University of Florida. The University of Florida ( Florida or UF) is a public land-grant, sea-grant, space-grant major Research He entered Princeton University, planning to study physics, but soon returned to his love of computers and graduated with a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. Physics (Greek Physis - φύσις in everyday terms is the Science of Matter and its motion. Computer science (or computing science) is the study and the Science of the theoretical foundations of Information and Computation and their Electrical engineering, sometimes referred to as electrical and electronic engineering, is a field of Engineering that deals with the study and application of Bezos was awarded an honorary doctorate in Science and Technology from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008. Carnegie Mellon University (also known as CMU) is a private Research University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United

Career

After graduating from Princeton, Bezos worked on Wall Street in the computer science field. Wall Street is a street in lower Manhattan, New York City, United States. Computer science (or computing science) is the study and the Science of the theoretical foundations of Information and Computation and their Then he worked on building a network for international trade for a company known as Fitel. International trade is exchange of Capital, Goods, and Services across International borders or Territories. Later on Bezos also worked in computer science for D. E. Shaw & Co.. D E Shaw & Co is a New York -based Hedge fund, Private equity and technology development firm whose activities center on various aspects of the intersection

Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 after making a cross country drive from New York to Seattle, writing up the Amazon business plan on the way and setting up the original company in his garage ^[4], his work with Amazon eventually led him to become one of the most prominent dot-com entrepreneurs. Amazoncom Inc ( is an American electronic commerce ( E-commerce) company in Seattle Washington. Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) An entrepreneur is a person who has possession over a company enterprise, or Venture, and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome In 2004, he founded a human spaceflight startup company called Blue Origin. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " A human spaceflight is a Spaceflight with a human crew, and possibly passengers A startup company or start-up is a Company with a limited operating history Blue Origin is a privately-funded Aerospace company set up by Amazon

Bezos is known for his attention to business process details, and is also said to have a very distinctive honk-like laugh. ^[5]

Artificial artificial intelligence

Artificial artificial intelligence (AAI) is a term coined by Jeff Bezos. Certain computational tasks, such as identifying whether a person in a photograph is male or female, are tasks that humans still do better and faster than computers. If perfect artificial intelligence systems existed, computer programs could complete those tasks. The idea of artificial artificial intelligence is to outsource those parts of a computer program to humans. ^[6] AAI is the underlying principle behind Amazon Mechanical Turk. The Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk is one of the suite of Amazon Web Services, a Crowdsourcing marketplace that enables computer programs to co-ordinate the use of

Estimated wealth

Bezos' wealth is primarily derived from his holding of Amazon. com stock; in 1998 he held 41 percent of Amazon. com stock but by the end of 2006 he held just over 100 million shares of common stock, representing 24. 26 percent of all Amazon. com shares. Bezos receives a modest salary of US$81,840 (with benefits of US$1. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been 1 million), which has remained unchanged since 1998. ^[7]

• 1999 – US$10. 1 billion, no. 19
• 2000 – US$6. 0 billion, no. 23
• 2001 – US$2. 0 billion, no. 234
• 2002 – US$1. 5 billion, no. 293
• 2003 – US$2. 5 billion, no. 147
• 2004 – US$5. 1 billion, no. 82
• 2005 – US$4. 8 billion, no. 41
• 2006 – US$4. 3 billion, no. 147
• 2007 – US$4. 4 billion, no. 188
• 2008 – US$8. 2 billion, no. 110

References

External links

• Condé Nast Portfolio Executive Profile - Portfolio.com (August 2007)
• Inside the Mind of Jeff Bezos - Fastcompany.com (August 2004)
• Well-capitalized Seattle start-up seeks Unix developers (August 1994)

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