Jeff Bezos Research Paper

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Jeff Bezos was born on January 12, 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to a teenage mother, Jacklyn Gise Jorgensen, and his biological father, Ted Jorgensen. Bezos's parents were married less than a year, and when Bezos was four years old his mother married his step-father Mike Bezos, a Cuban immigrant (Bezos, 2013). Right from childhood when he was twelve, he was already competitive and focus on providing good stuff on cheaper price as Tim (Bezos) made a science project which he had already seen in the store but introduced his teacher (Ray) as his project was cheaper than store price (Stone, 2013).
Jeffrey's grandfather was a regional director of the Atomic Energy Commission in Albuquerque. He retired early to the family ranch, where Jeffrey spent most of the summers of his youth, working with his grandfather at the enormously varied tasks essential to the operation (Bezos, 2013). This might be a reason, that Bezos was intelligent and brilliant. Even at an early age, he showed a keen interest in machines and tools by dismantling his crib with screwdriver. In his teenage, family moved to Miami, Florida where Bezos in his high school fell in love with computers. He entered Princeton University with the intentions to study physics but later on he decided to be graduated with a degree in computer science and electrical engineering(Bezos, 2013).
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Fortune magazine named Bezos its 2012 "Businessperson of the Year." And in 2013, Jeff Bezos purchased the newspaper division of The Washington Post Company for $250 million. Bezos made this purchase as privately held company, rather than on behalf of Amazon but his announcement to retain the existing management just for respect of Graham family shows that he is not only a businessman but also a kind hearted