You most likely know of or have heard of Jeff Bezos. After all, he’s the man behind Amazon.com, the largest e-retailer in the world. When you get right to it, he is the man who has revolutionized
Fell in love with a colleague
Mackenzie (Tuttle) Bezos was his colleague at D.E. Shaw. They got married in 1993 and after a year, they moved to Seattle to start Amazon.com.
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Jeff and MacKenzie have three sons including one daughter. Their daughter is adopted from China.
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Jeff Bezos quit his position as a senior vice president at D.E. Shaw to start Amazon.com.
He rented a house and worked from his garage with his first employee, Shel Kaphan.
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Before he settled on Amazon.com, the company was also known as Cadabra or Relentless.com.
Amazon.com was named after the South American river. And the logo bears an arrow from A to Z, indicating that customers can buy anything from A to Z on the site.
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Jeff Bezos believes in the “Two Pizza Rule”: if a team cannot be fed with two pizzas, it’s too large. To him, independent thought should prevail over groupthink.
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His frugality showed early on when he founded Amazon.com from his garage, as he turned a wooden door into a table.
Up to this day, the tables in the Amazon office use the same door-desk model.
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When one of his employees, Jennifer Cast asked for donation of about $100,000 for a same-sex marriage cause in Washington, Jeff and his wife donated $2.5 million instead.
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He is a highly competitive man who would not give up hounding competitors with cutthroat discounts just to put them out of business.
His competitior, Quidsi, responsible for Diapers.com, was acquired after Bezos made relentless attacks with heavy discounts and offers to match Diapers.com
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Not a fan of complacency, Jeff Bezos also does not tolerate with incompetency in his company.
Some direct insults he used against his employees were, “Are you lazy or just incompetent?” or “ We need to apply some human intelligence to this problem.”
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In 2003, Jeff Bezos had a helicopter accident that gave him minor head lacerations.
During the accident, instead of the life flashing before his life bit, he thought that it would be a silly way to die. He has now sworn off helicopters.
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Jeff Bezos made headlines in 2013 when he bought the Washington Post for $250 million.
He wrote in the Post about his intention to keep things the same there but mentioned that future changes were inevitable.
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Ever since he was a child, he was immensely interested in aerospace. In 2000, he started a space company, Blue Origin, LCC with the vision to bring down the cost of space travel so everyone can go into the space.
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His latest project, “Amazon Prime Air” uses drones to deliver their products and services to customers. However, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has not yet approved the project as the rules and regulations does not allow the use of drones for commercial purposes. Despite that, Jeff Bezos is hopeful to make it a reality within the next few years.
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