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Jeffrey P. Bezos was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His mother was a teenager at the time of his birth, and was with his dad until Jeff was a year old, and then they divorced.
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When Jeffery's mother remarried to Mike Bezos, their family moved to Houston for work.
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Jeff went to Princeton to study physics, but returned to his love of computers and studied computers sciences, and graduated with a degree in that.
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Jeff Bezos gradtuated from Princeton University on May 22, 1986 with a Computer Science degree
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After graduating from post secondary school, Jeff found a job on Wall Street because computer science was in demand. There, he studued market trends.
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In 1990, Jeff joined D.E Shaw, a firm specializing in the application of computer science to the stock market. This firm is in New York.
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Became the youngest vice president at D.E Shaw.
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Jeff met his wife at the firm he was working at (D.E Shaw) and got married soon after.
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Jeff voluntarily quit his job at the firm to move to Seattle with his wife, as he started to come up with the idea of his website.
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Prior to this, he came up with a test website to try on his friends, and when it was a hit with them, he put the website up for the public.
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In 30 days, with no press, Amazon had sold books in all 50 states and 45 foreign countries. By September, it had sales of $20,000 a week. In December 1995, Amazon net sales were at $510,000.
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Amazon began updating their website and expanding it to a broader spectrum of customers. They began selling CDs and videos in 1998.
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After only four years open to the public, Amazon reached net sales of $600 million.
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The feature of people being able to auction on products was added.
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Jeff Bezos became Time Magazine`s Person of The Year.
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Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services compay set up by amazon.com
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Once again, Amazon.com was updated and were able to sell clothes to the public.
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Amazon released the Kindle in 2007. and `The Economist` gave Bezos and Gregg Zehr and Innovation Award for the Amazon Kindle.
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In 2008, Jeff Bezos was selected by U.S. News & World Report as one of America`s best leaders.
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After 14 years of Amazon going public, the net sales were throught the roof, at $19.1 billion.
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In 2012, Bezos was named Businessperson of The Year bu `Fortune`.
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Jeff purchased The Washington Post and other publications affiliated with its parent company, The Washington Post Co., for $250 million.
