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Jeff Bezos

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Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994. Amazon's mission is to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Amazon offers low prices and fast delivery on millions of items, provides thousands of movies and TV shows through Prime Video, designs and builds the bestselling Kindle, Fire and Echo devices and Alexa voice recognition service, and empowers companies and governments in over 190 countries around the world with the leading cloud computing infrastructure through Amazon Web Services. Bezos is also the founder of aerospace company Blue Origin, which is working to lower the cost and increase the safety of spaceflight, and he is owner of the Washington Post. Bezos has launched two philanthropic organizations. The Bezos Earth Fund helps fund nonprofits preserving and protecting the natural world, and The Bezos Day One Fund provides grants to nonprofits to help homeless families and is creating a network of preschools in low-income communities. Bezos graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University in 1986, and was named TIME Magazine's Person of the Year in 1999.
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Founder and executive chairman of Amazon.com.
Forbes magazine named Bezos "the richest man in modern history" when his net worth increased to $150 billion.
Last name was changed from Jorgensen to Bezos at age four when his mother remarried to Miguel "Mike" Bezos.
His company Amazon became the second American company (after Apple) to reach one trillion dollars in value ($1,000,000,000,000).
Suffers from an eye condition called "Ptosis" (aka Blepharoptosis), a drooping or falling of the upper eyelid, sometimes called 'lazy eye'.

What consumerism really is, at its worst, is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.
The common question that gets asked in business is 'Why?'. That's a good question, but an equally valid question is 'Why not?'.
I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
There are two kinds of companies: those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

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