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Jeffrey Preston Bezos
Jeffrey Preston Bezos
chairman of the board of Amazon.com. Bezos, a Tau Beta Pi graduate of Princeton University, worked as a financial analyst for D. E. Shaw & Co. before founding Amazon in 1994.
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1 Early life and background 2 Career 3 Artificial artificial intelligence 4 Recognition 5 References 6 External links
[edit] Career
After graduating from Princeton, Bezos worked on Wall Street in the computer science field. Then he worked on building a network for international trade for a company known as Fitel. Then Bezos worked for Bankers Trust, becoming a vice-president. Later on he also worked in computer science for D. E. Shaw & Co. Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 after making a cross country drive from New York to Seattle, writing up the Amazon business plan on the way and setting up the original company in his garage.[4] His work with Amazon eventually led him to become one of the most prominent dot-com entrepreneurs. In 2004, he founded a human spaceflight startup company called Blue Origin. Bezos is known for his attention to business process details. As described by Cond Nast's Portfolio.com, he "is at once a happy-go-lucky mogul and a notorious micromanager. ... an executive who wants to know about everything from contract minutiae to how he is quoted in all Amazon press releases." [4]
[edit] Recognition
He was named Time magazine's Person of the Year in 1999.[6] In 2008, he was selected by U.S. News & World Report as one of America's Best Leaders.[7]