Jeffrey Preston Bezos

By-Harsh Chaaran
 Who is he?

He is the founder of

the popular shopping
portal Amazon.com
History
Jeffrey Preston Bezos was born on January 12th
1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
He attended Miami Palmetto Senior High School.
While in high school, Bezos fell in love with
computers.
After high school he enrolled to Princeton
University to study physics, and graduated with a
degree in computer science and electrical
engineering.
Career profile
First job- FITEL a high-tech start-up company in
New York building a network to conduct
international trade.
Two years later bezos started working for
Bankers Trust Company in New York, where he
became the company's youngest vice president in
1990.
Later that year Bezos went to work for D.E. Shaw
& Co from 1990 to 1994
The generation of an idea…….
In 1994 Bezos observed that Internet usage was
increasing by 2300 percent a year. He saw an
opportunity for a new era of commerce, and
immediately began considering the possibilities.

Books were the product, for which no mail order

catalogue existed, so he attended the American
Booksellers' Convention to learn everything he
could about the book business.
From caterpillar to butterfly
They set up the business in a two-bedroom house,
running three Sun microstations on tables he'd
made out of doors from Home Depot.
When the test site was up and running, Bezos asked
300 people to test it. The code worked across many
different computer platforms and on July 16, 1995,
he opened the website site to the world.
With word of mouth spreading in just 30 days with
no advertising, Amazon.com had sold books in all 50
states and 45 foreign countries.
The result……
By September 1995, the site had reached sales of
$20,000 a week. Bezos and his team continued to
improve the site and introduced new features
such as one-click shopping, customer reviews, and
e-mail order verification
Thank you