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Jeff Bezos has one brother, Mark Bezos and one sister, Christina Bezos. Mark Bezos is a volunteer firefighter and nonprofit executive. Jeff's biological father was a famous unicyclist who did not know he existed until not too long ago. This was because his biological mother had him when she was 17 years old. He was raised with his brother and his sister by his mother and her second husband.
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Jeff Bezos was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was born to Ted Jorgensen, Jacklyn Bezos, Miguel Bezos. He was raised by his mother and her husband who thought he was his biological father. His real biological father wad Ted Jorgensen.
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Jeff Bezos was adopted by Miquel Bezos and changed his name from Jeffery Preston Jorgenson to Jeffery Bezos. Then his family moves from Albuquerque, New Mexico to Houston, Texas.
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Jeff graduates as valedictorian of Miami Palmento Senior High School.
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Jeff then graduated from Princeton University with degrees in computer science and electrical engineering.
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Jeff then joined Wall Street's quantitative hedge fund D. E. Shaw & Co.
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Jeff then leaves D. E. Shaw and incorporates Cadabra (original name for Amazon) in Washington State.
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Jeff and the first employee of Amazon, Shel Kaphan send out links to the Amazon.com beta website.
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Amazon goes public, raies $54 million, at a valuation of $438 million.
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The Amazon company raises $2.2 billion in debt.
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Jeff Bezos is named Time Magazine Man of the Year.
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Jeff Bezos incorporates Blue Origin, his private space research company devoted to lowering the cost of access to space.
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Jeff Bezos and Amazon introduces the Kindle. Which is the pioneering electronic reading device.
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Jeff bEzos and Amazon purchases the Washington Post Newspaper for $250 million.
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The only CEO who is respected enough to even get into the running at this point to be the next Steve Jobs is Jeff Bezos.
