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Jeffery Bezos was born
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. -
Moved to Houston, Texas.
When Jeffery's mother remarried to Mike Bezos, their family moved to Houston for work. -
Best teacher in the World wss born (BORSA)
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Jeff Bezos got accepted to Princeton University
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. -
Graduated from Princeton
Jeff Bezos gradtuated from Princeton University on May 22, 1986 with a Computer Science degree -
Worked on Wall Street
After graduating from post secondary school, Jeff found a job on Wall Street because computer science was in demand. There, he studued market trends. -
Joined D. E. Shaw
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. -
Becomes Vice President
Became the youngest vice president at D.E Shaw. -
Gets married to Mackenzie Tuttle
Jeff met his wife at the firm he was working at (D.E Shaw) and got married soon after. -
Jeff Quit His Job
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. -
Birth of Amazon
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. -
Amazon early net sales
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. -
Amazon Updating
Amazon began updating their website and expanding it to a broader spectrum of customers. They began selling CDs and videos in 1998. -
Net Sales
After only four years open to the public, Amazon reached net sales of $600 million. -
Amazon Auctions
The feature of people being able to auction on products was added. -
Jeff Bezos, Person of The Year
Jeff Bezos became Time Magazine`s Person of The Year. -
Blue Origin was founded
Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services compay set up by amazon.com -
Amazon Clothes
Once again, Amazon.com was updated and were able to sell clothes to the public. -
Released the Kindle
Amazon released the Kindle in 2007. and `The Economist` gave Bezos and Gregg Zehr and Innovation Award for the Amazon Kindle. -
One of America`s Best Leaders
In 2008, Jeff Bezos was selected by U.S. News & World Report as one of America`s best leaders. -
Recent Amazon Net Sales
After 14 years of Amazon going public, the net sales were throught the roof, at $19.1 billion. -
Businessperson of The Year
In 2012, Bezos was named Businessperson of The Year bu `Fortune`. -
Bought Washington Post
Jeff purchased The Washington Post and other publications affiliated with its parent company, The Washington Post Co., for $250 million.
