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Jeff Bezos is born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. -
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Bezos' grandparents let him pretend to work on their ranch when he was little. He spent all his summers on the ranch from ages four to sixteen. -
While in his high school days, Bezos develops the Dream Institution, a education center that promoted creative thinking in young students. -
Bezos graduates summa cum laude from Princeton University with degrees in computer science and electrical engineering. -
Bezos works as the firm's youngest senior vice president in the New York investment bank D.E Shaw & Co. -
Bezos quits his job at D.E Shaw & Co. and moves to Seattle, Washington and opened a virtual bookstore. -
Bezos names his site after the South American river and sells it's first book ever. -
Amazon begins to selling CD's and videos. -
Bezos adds auctions to Amazon and begins to invest in other virtual stores. -
Amazon now offers a vast array of products like apparel, hardware, and consumer electronics. -
Amazon Web-Services, a cloud computing service that would eventually become the largest such service in the world, was added to Amazon. -
Late 2007, a new device called that read digital books with wireless internet connectivity called Kindle would be introduced. -
Amazon began creating television shows and movies with its Amazon Studios Division. -
From being worth $19.1 billion in 2008, Amazon is now worth $233 billion. -
Bezos' marriage to Mackenzie Tuttle would end with them divorcing.