Jeffrey Preston Bezos is originally from Albuquerque, United States, where he was born on January 12, 1964. After completing his primary and secondary education, Bezos entered Princeton University to study Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. After graduating in 1986, Bezos gained professional experience in various fields, including working at a fiber optics company and even on Wall Street itself.
The creation of Amazon
It was not until the mid-1990s that, with some savings and pure creativity, he launched the online bookstore Cadabra.com. Without a doubt, Bezos was a visionary of what would later occur with the internet in the commercial realm, turning it into one of the most important buying and selling markets today. When the project gained importance and visibility, Bezos changed its name to Amazon and diversified its range of products and services.
In 2007, Bezos and his alter ego Amazon once again shook the world with the creation and commercialization of the Amazon Kindle, a device specifically designed for reading e-books—of course, the kind you could purchase through Amazon…
Other investments in journalism and space…
Recently, Bezos expanded his business horizons beyond the web and made a bold move into the media industry by purchasing the traditional newspaper The Washington Post for the sum of 250 thousand dollars. He promised to bring about a revolution with the newspaper similar to what he achieved with Amazon, through creativity and always prioritizing the customer—in this case, the reader.
Recently, the financial world was shaken by the sale of one million shares of his flagship company Amazon, which earned him the staggering sum of 757 million dollars.
But of course, as a good businessman, visionary, and shrewd investor, he is already investing that money in another of his major projects: his space company Blue Origin.
Just as he revolutionized the world of e-commerce with the famous Amazon, or recently with the investment and purchase of The Washington Post, Bezos now wants to revolutionize space, which is why he created this company that already has a number of achievements under its belt.
In one of the launches of his reusable rockets, he managed to land it successfully, that is, without any technical failure, after reaching a maximum altitude of about 103 kilometers.
Another idea Bezos has in mind through this company is to generate a business of suborbital flights aboard the spacecraft designed for this purpose, the New Shepard, which could begin operating as soon as next year, and in 2018 expand spaceflights to tourists eager to experience space.
The idea is to build aircraft similar to the one mentioned in order to offer this service, which is already being offered by some competitors and costs around 250 thousand dollars.
Without a doubt, the huge influx of money generated by the sale of Amazon shares will allow him to boost this business and many others he already has, and of course, not forget about philanthropy, to which he also dedicates millions.
Fortunately, these magnates dedicate time and thousands of their millions to helping those most in need, which is undoubtedly a commendable and notable attitude.
Currently, Bezos has the third-largest fortune in the world, amounting to an estimated net worth of around 66 billion dollars, surpassed only by Amancio Ortega and Bill Gates.