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Born on January 12, 1964
Jeff Bezos was born on January 12, 1964 -
Bezos awarded silver knight award
The silver knight award is giving to only select students in florida -
Bezos graduates college
graduated from Princeton with highest honors and Phi Beta Kappa in 1986 -
Bezos works on wall street
After graduation Bezos works on wall street in the computer science field -
Bezos joins the New York investment bank D.E. Shaw & Co. in 1990
Jeff joins a investment bank and quickly becomes senior vice president -
Bezos wins creatve writing certificate and becomes english major
Bezos graduates from princeton again to become an english major and wins a creative writitng certificate -
Quits job to start online book store
Bezos quits his job on wall street to start a online bookstore (Amazon) -
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Net sales increase
net sales increased from $510,000 in 1995 to some $600 million in 1998 -
Amazon is launched
Bezos launches Amazon.com -
Near death experience
Bezos had finished taking a look at some property in west texas so he got in his helicopter. As hard as the piolt tried the helicopter wouls not take off it had a fulll tank of gas and a full cabin so the helicopter was heavey. all of a sudden the helicopter crashed -
Sales increase to 91 billion
sales increase to 19.1 billion in 2008. -
Bezos investes in Blue origin
Bezos had announced that he would invest a portion of his Amazon earnings to fund Blue Origin a Seattle based aerospace company that would offer suborbital flights in a redeveloped commercial spacecraft to paying customers
