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Jeff Bezos was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico to a teenage mother.
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Jeff Bezos graduated with a computer science and an electrical engineering degree from Princeton University.
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Jeff Bezos met his wife, MacKenzie Bezos at work in 1990
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Jeff and Mackenzie married in 1993.
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Jeff Bezos left his job in 1994 to open an online bookstore.
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Jeff Bezos invited 300 people to beta test the official Amazon website and launched it on July 16th, 1995
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At this time Amazon has 11 employees and moves into it's second HQ, a warehouse. They also update their logo.
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Amazon offers it's first stock offering for $18 per share
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Amazon is now more valuable than Drugstore.com, Pets.com, and Overstock.com
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In 1999, Time featured Jeff Bezos as "Person of the Year"
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In 2000, Amazon updates it's logo again, and they offer free shipping for orders over 100 dollars.
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Amazon launches it's program in 2003 called Search Inside the Book that allows people to search for keywords.
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Amazon Prime, Amazon's membership program gets released.
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Jeff Bezos buys Washington post for $250 million U.S. dollars
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Amazon continues to grow with over 100 million Amazon Prime members
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Jeff Bezos now has four children, three boys and one girl adopted from China.
