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Jeffrey Preston Bezos ( BAY-zohss; né Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman, media proprietor and investor. He is the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company. He is the second wealthiest person in the world, with a net worth of about US$205 billion as of April 5, 2024. He was also the wealthiest from 2017 to 2021, according to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes. Bezos was born in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and Miami. He graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with degrees in electrical engineering and computer science. He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields from 1986 to early 1994. Bezos founded Amazon in mid 1994 on a road trip from New York City to Seattle. The company began as an online bookstore and has since expanded to a variety of other e-commerce products and services, including video and audio streaming, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. It is the world's largest online sales company, the largest Internet company by revenue, and the largest provider of virtual assistants and cloud infrastructure services through its Amazon Web Services branch. Bezos founded the aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company Blue Origin in 2000. Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle reached space in 2015 and afterwards successfully landed back on Earth; he flew into space on Blue Origin NS-16 in 2021. He also purchased the major American newspaper The Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million and manages many other investments through his venture capital firm, Bezos Expeditions. In September 2021, Bezos co-founded Altos Labs with Mail.ru founder Yuri Milner. The first centibillionaire on the Forbes Real Time Billionaires Index and the second ever to have eclipsed the feat since Bill Gates in 1999, Bezos was named the "richest man in modern history" after his net worth increased to $150 billion in July 2018. In August 2020, according to Forbes, he had a net worth exceeding $200 billion. On July 5, 2021, Bezos stepped down as the CEO and president of Amazon and took over the role of executive chairman. Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy succeeded Bezos as the CEO and president of Amazon. In October 2023, he was ranked second on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans, with a net worth of $161 billion. Early life and education Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen was born on January 12, 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as the son of Jacklyn (née Gise) and Ted Jorgensen. At the time of Jeff's birth, his mother was a 17-year-old high-school student and his father was 19 years old. Jorgensen was a Danish American unicyclist born in Chicago to a family of Baptists. After completing high school despite challenging conditions, Jacklyn attended night school, bringing her baby with her. Jeff attended a Montessori school in Albuquerque when he was 2 years old. Ted Jorgensen drank and struggled financially. Jacklyn left her husband to live with her parents, filing for divorce in June 1965 when Jeff was 17 months old. After his parents divorced, his mother married Cuban immigrant Miguel "Mike" Bezos in April 1968. Shortly after the wedding, Mike adopted four-year-old Jeff, whose surname was then legally changed from Jorgensen to Bezos. Gise, her husband and her son left the area and asked Jorgensen to discontinue contact, to which he agreed. After Mike had received his degree from the University of New Mexico, the family moved to Houston, Texas, so that he could begin working as an engineer for Exxon. Jeff attended River Oaks Elementary School in Houston from fourth to sixth grade. Jeff's maternal grandfather was Lawrence Preston Gise, a regional director of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in Albuquerque. Lawrence retired early to his family's ranch near Cotulla, Texas, where Jeff would spend many summers in his youth. Jeff would later purchase this ranch and expand it from 25,000 acres (10,117 ha) to 300,000 acres (121,406 ha). Jeff displayed scientific interests and technological proficiency and once rigged an electric alarm to keep his younger siblings out of his room. The family moved to Miami, Florida, where Jeff attended Miami Palmetto High School. While Jeff was in high school, he worked at McDonald's as a short-order line cook during the breakfast shift. Bezos attended the Student Science Training Program at the University of Florida. He was high school valedictorian, a National Merit Scholar, and a Silver Knight Award winner in 1982. In his graduation speech, Bezos told the audience he dreamed of the day when mankind would colonize space. A local newspaper quoted his intention "to get all people off the earth and see it turned into a huge national park". After graduating from high school in 1982, Bezos attended Princeton University. He initially majored in physics but later switched to electrical engineering and computer science. Bezos was a member of the Quadrangle Club, one of Princeton's 11 eating clubs. In addition, he was the president of the Princeton chapter of the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS). He had a 4.2 GPA and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi. Bezos graduated from Princeton in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE), summa cum laude. Business career Early career After Bezos graduated from college in 1986, he was offered jobs at Intel, Bell Labs, and Andersen Consulting, among others. He first worked at Fitel, a fintech telecommunications start-up, where he was tasked with building a network for international trade. Bezos was promoted to head of development and director of customer service thereafter. He transitioned into the banking industry when he became a product manager at Bankers Trust from 1988 to 1990. He then joined D. E. Shaw & Co, a newly created hedge fund with a strong emphasis on mathematical modelling from 1990 until 1994. Bezos became D. E. Shaw's fourth senior vice-president by age 30. Amazon In spring 1994, Bezos read that web usage was growing at a rate of 2300% a year and eventually decided to establish an online bookstore. He and his then-wife, MacKenzie Scott, left their jobs at D. E. Shaw and founded Amazon in a rented garage in Bellevue, Washington on July 5, 1994, after writing its business plan on a cross-country drive from New York City to Seattle. With Bezos at the helm and Scott taking an integral role in its operation—writing checks, keeping track of the books, and negotiating the company's first freight contracts—the foundation was laid for this garage-run operation to grow exponentially. Prior to settling in Seattle, Bezos had investigated setting up his company at an Indian reservation near San Francisco in order to avoid paying taxes. Bezos initially named his new company Cadabra but later changed the name to Amazon after the Amazon River in South America, in part because the name beg.... Discover the Jeff Bezos popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Jeff Bezos books.
Best Seller Jeff Bezos Books of 2024
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Burn Book
Kara SwisherInstant New York Times BestsellerFrom awardwinning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change t...
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The Self-Discipline Handbook
Natalie WiseLearn why boundaries are not bad, why humility is hard, how to milk your momentum, how passion powers progress, why persistence is a virtue and patience is not optional. Learn how ...
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The Upstarts
Brad StoneA look deep inside the new Silicon Valley, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Everything Store. Ten years ago, the idea of getting into a stranger's car, or a walkin...
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The Mission of a Lifetime
Basil HeroAwardwinning former investigative reporter Basil Hero chronicles the life lessons humanity can learn from the twelve remaining Apollo astronauts who went to the Moon. In rare indep...
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Amazon Unbound
Brad StoneThis New York Times bestseller is a “masterful” (The Washington Post), “juicy tour of the company [Jeff] Bezos built” (The New York Times Book Review), revealing the most important...
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The Space Barons
Christian DavenportThe historic quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space led by two rivals and their vast fortunes, egos, and visions of space as the next entrepreneurial fro...
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Bold
Peter H. Diamandis & Steven Kotler“A visionary roadmap for people who believe they can change the worldand invaluable advice about bringing together the partners and technologies to help them do it.” President Bill...
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Davos Man
Peter S. GoodmanA San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller An NPR Best Book of the YearThe New York Times’s Global Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billion...
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Jeff Bezos Decoded - Take A Deep Dive Into The Mind Of The Billionaire Business Titan
Success DecodedJEFF BEZOS DECODEDBILLIONAIRE BUSINESS TITANWRITTEN BY: SUCCESS DECODED(Not written by Tai Lopez)Learn about themes like:DISRUPTIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIPPREPARE YOUR STARTUP FOR STARDOM...
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The Insider
Piers MorganThe Insider dominated the media on publication in March 2005 and instantly became a No.1 bestseller. Not only did it fill thousands of column inches with its revelations about prom...
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Binge Times
Dade Hayes & Dawn ChmielewskiThe first comprehensive account of the biggest wakeup call in the history of the entertainment business: the pivot to streaming. Go inside a disparate group of media and tech compa...
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Four
Scott GallowayAmazon, Apple, Facebook y Google son las cuatro empresas más influyentes del mundo.Casi todo el mundo cree saber cómo lo han logrado.Y casi todo el mundo se equivoca.Conoce su ADN ...
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Jeff Bezos
Kalyani Mookherji<p><b>Jeff Bezos</b> by <b>Kalyani Mookherji</b> is a biographical work that delves into the life and achievements of Jeff Bezos, the American entrepr...
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Capitalist Punishment
Vivek RamaswamyA Wall Street cartel has quietly seized control of the American economy, and they are forcing governments and businesses to bow down to their political agendausing your money to do...
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Jeff Bezos
Chris McNabWhat was the key to Jeff Bezos's success? This biography takes a deepdive into his career and the decisions he made to become the world's most successful business magnate. Entrepre...
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The Third Door
Alex Banayan#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The largerthanlife journey of an 18yearold college freshman who set out from his dorm room to track down Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, and dozens more of the ...
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Invent and Wander
Jeff BezosIn Jeff Bezos's own words, the core principles and philosophy that have guided him in creating, building, and leading Amazon and Blue Origin.In this collection of Jeff Bezos's writ...
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Collision of Power
Martin Baron“A closely observed, gripping chronicle of politics and journalism during a decade of turmoil.” The New York Times Book ReviewPolitics. Money. Media. Tech. …It’s all here in Collis...
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Crea y divaga
Jeff Bezos«Cuando me preguntan quién, a día de hoy, está a la altura de genios innovadores como Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein o Steve Jobs, no tengo ninguna duda: Jeff Bezos, CEO de Ama...
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Bezonomics
Brian DumaineAn “illuminating, lucid, and finely detailed” (The Washington Post) look at Amazon’s worlddominating business model, the current competitors either imitating or trying to outfox Am...
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The Six
Loren Grush“Vivid.” The Guardian “Engrossing.” Booklist “Suspenseful, meticulously observed, enlightening.” Margot Lee Shetterly, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Figures In t...
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Be Fearless
Jean CaseBe Fearless is researchedbased call to action for those seeking to live extraordinary lives and bring about transformational change.LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BESTSELLE...
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Fight Like Hell
Kim KellyA 2022 New Yorker Best Book of the Year A 2022 Esquire Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A 2022 BuzzFeed Book You’ll Love A 2022 LitHub Favorite Book of the Year“Kelly unearths the ...
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Merchants of Culture
John B. Thompson"All you need to know about the industry at a time of momentous change." Drake McFeely, chairman and president, W.W. Norton & Company For nearly five centuries, the world of bo...
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Messy
Tim Harford“Utterly fascinating. Tim Harford shows that if you want to be creative and resilient, you need a little more disorder in your world.” Adam Grant, New York Timesbestselling author ...
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How to Lead
David M. RubensteinThe New York Times Bestseller #1 Wall Street Journal BestsellerThe essential leadership playbook. Learn the principles and guiding philosophies of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Ruth Bade...
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The Everything War
Dana MattioliMost Anticipated by Foreign Policy Globe and Mail Publishers Weekly Next Big Idea Club Must Read April Books“Will stand as a classic.” – Christophe...
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Jeff Bezos
Helena HuntOver five hundred quotations from the man Warren Buffett called “the most remarkable businessperson of our age.”Jeff Bezos started Amazon in 1994 as an online bookstore based out o...
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The Everything Store
Brad Stone"An immersive playbyplay of the company's ascent.... It's hard to imagine a better retelling of the Amazon origin story." Laura Bennett, New Republic Amazon.com's visionary founde...
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Jackpot
Michael MechanicA senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabitand the insidious ways this realm harms us all.H...
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The Four
Scott GallowayNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLERAmazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks t...
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The Fashion Conspiracy
Nicholas ColeridgeFrom the catwalks of Paris to the sweatshops of South Korea; from Seventh Avenue glitz to Tokyo newwave… The sophisticated brokings of the fashion conspiracy have generated a power...
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The Players Ball
David Kushner“An engrossing microcosm of the internet’s Wild West years” (Kirkus Reviews), awardwinning journalist David Kushner tells the incredible battle between the founder of Match.com and...
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When the Heavens Went on Sale
Ashlee VanceAn Instant New York Times Bestseller A momentous look at the private companies building a revolutionary new economy in space, from the New York Times bestselling author o...
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Fulfillment
Alec MacGillisA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"A grounded and expansive examination of the American economic divide . . . It takes a skillful journalist to weave data and anecdotes t...
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The Effective Executive
Peter F. DruckerA handsome, commemorative edition of Peter F. Drucker’s timeless classic work on leadership and management, with a foreword by Jim Collins.What makes an effective executive?For dec...
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Jeff Bezos
Laureano TurienzoDE JEFFREY PRESTON JORGENSEN A JEFF BEZOS . Historias, curiosidades y anécdotas que definen y nos muestran la evolución de un personaje totalmente poliédrico. Jeff Bezos es el padr...
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The New Rules of Divorce
Jacqueline Newman“You can waste vast amounts of money by hiring the wrong lawyer while engaging in a high conflict divorce. Newman shows people the playbook and provides real tactics for breaking u...
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Make No Small Plans
Elliott Bisnow, Brett Leve, Jeff Rosenthal & Jeremy SchwartzFrom the founders of the acclaimed Summit event series and community comes the story of their unconventional journey to business success and the hard lessons they learned along the...
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Your Next Five Moves
Patrick Bet-DavidFrom the creator of Valuetainment, the #1 YouTube channel for entrepreneurs, and “one of the most exciting thinkers” (Ray Dalio, author of Principles) in business today, comes a pr...
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Rethinking Competitive Advantage
Ram CharanHow do you gain an edge in the digital world order? “Another book for the ages from a master! . . . Particularly insightful is his emphasis on how the endtoend individual cons...
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Boldly Go
William Shatner & Joshua BrandonThe beloved star of Star Trek, recent space traveler, and living legend William Shatner reflects on the interconnectivity of all things, our fragile bond with nature, and the joy t...
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The Dynasty
Jeff BenedictNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Now a 10part docuseries on Apple TV+ From the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Tiger Woods comes the definitive inside story of the New England ...
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Lights Out
Thomas Gryta & Ted MannA WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER "If you’re in any kind of leadership rolewhether at a company, a nonprofit, or somewhere elsethere’s a lot you can learn here."Bill Gates, Gates No...
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Winner Sells All
Jason Del ReyA riveting investigation of the noholdsbarred battle between Amazon and Walmart to become the king of commerce.For years, Walmart and Amazon operated in separate spheresone a massi...