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Jeff Bezos was born in 1964, New Mexico.
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Jeff Bezos graduated from Princeton University in 1986.
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Jeff Bezos became the youngest Vice President at D.E. Shaw's Investment Firm.
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Jeff Bezos quits his job at the investment firm to open an online bookstore called Amazon.
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Jeff officially opened Amazon.com in his garage with a few employees.
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Amazon's net sales increase from $510,000 in 1995 to $600 million by the end of 1998.
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Amazon outpaced competitors become the number one e-commerce leader.
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Jeff founded Blue Origin then later bought a launch site in Texas where they soon will introduce spacecraft.
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Amazon begins to sell CDs, clothes, electronics, and toys.
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Bezos released the Kindle. Three years later it surpassed the hard cover books.
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By 2008 Amazon has a net sale of $19.1 billion.
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In 2013 Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post for $250 million.
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Jeff hires hundreds of reporters, editors, and newspaper technology staff. By 2016 The Post has a ad revenue of more than $100 million.
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In 2019 NASA announced that Blue was one of 13 companies to collaborate to work on 19 technologies to send to the moon and Mars.
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In 2020 New Glenn was launched into space.
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Jeff steps down from CEO of Amazon on July 5, 2021