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His adopted father asked his mother to a date
Miguel Bezos asked Jackie Gise to go on a date with him and they watched "The Sound of Music." -
Jeff becomes a "Trekkie"
From the time he programmed a Teletype machine and discovered a Star Trek game. He watched the series and got interested in space exploration. -
The Apollo 11 landed on the Moon
Jeff watched the Apollo 11 landing on the moon through his family's black and white tv. The landing and his grandfather, Pop Gise fueled his ambitions for space exploration. -
Jeff was taught a lesson in compassion
Jeff was in the back seat of the car and listened to an antismoking public service announcement on the radio. He calculated his grandmother years from her smoking habit and his grandmother cried because she was fighting cancer. His grandfather said to Jeff, "Jeff, one day you’ll understand that it’s harder to be kind than clever." That event would later relate to his 2010 commencement speech at Princeton. -
Jeff took his siblings to watch movies
His parents trusted him to take them to movies but they would be too embarrassed to go with him because of his laugh. Link text -
Jeff gave his valedictory speech
He often quotes Star Trek and talked about his ambitions of space exploration. "his dream of saving humanity by
creating permanent human colonies in orbiting space stations while turning the planet into an enormous nature preserve" (117). The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
