Bezos retained his interest in The Washington Post and Blue Origin, as well as voting control of the shares received by his ex-wife. [159][160], Day 1: start upDay 2: stasisDay 3: irrelevanceDay 4: "excruciating, painful decline"Day 5: death, Bezos has stated "it is always Day 1" to describe his growth mindset. What was Jeff Bezos GPA in college? [101], In 2015, Bezos announced that a new orbital launch vehicle was under development and would make its first flight in the late-2010s. What kind of responsibility goes along with the kind of success youve had? Founder and Executive Chairman, Oracle Corporation. [57] In 2002, Bezos led Amazon to launch Amazon Web Services, which compiled data from weather channels and website traffic. After completing high school despite challenging . [55] Although Amazon was originally an online bookstore, Bezos had always planned to expand to other products. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and electrical engineering. [3][4] He is the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company. [141][142][143], Bezos was seen by some as needlessly quantitative and data-driven. During his time at the University of Florida, Bezos participated in the Student Science Training Program. What does the American Dream mean to you? You end up wanting to do more of it and more of it and more of it. [35] In his graduation speech, Bezos told the audience he dreamed of the day when mankind would colonize space. Disney was a different sort of thing. [191] He was first included on the Forbes World's Billionaires list in 1999 with a registered net worth of $10.1billion, which placed his on the 19th position in the world and 10th in the USA. Every single person in the company, because we had to work with our hands so close to the customers, making sure those orders went out, really set up a culture that served us well, and that is our goal, to be Earths most customer-centric company. When he married Jeffreys mother, the family moved to Houston, where Mike Bezos became an engineer for Exxon. ", and "Why are you ruining my life?". The font size was adjustable for further ease in reading, and, unlike earlier electronic reading devices, the Kindle incorporated wireless Internet connectivity, enabling the reader to purchase, download and read complete books and other documents anywhere, anytime. We were packing these things, everybody in the company, and I had this brainstorm as I said to the person next to me, This packing is killing me! He decided to give it all up and drive to Seattle with his wife, in a used car, to start a business in their garage. Did you have heroes or role models when you were growing up? Day 1 Families Fund grants, the amounts of which vary in monetary terms, will be sent to 40 organizations across the country. Thats the kind of thing that in the short-term can confuse you, but if you think about the long-term then you can really make good life decisions that you wont regret later. With a grade point average of 2.50 and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree (B.S. [169][170] Bezos maintains the email address jeff@amazon.com[171] as an outlet for customers to reach out to him and the company. Jeff Bezos: Theres a little bit of that in me, I think. Bezos started to wear tailored clothing; he weight trained, pursued a regimented diet and began to freely spend his money. [283][284], In March 2018, Bezos met in Seattle with Mohammad bin Salman, the crown prince and de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, to discuss investment opportunities for Saudi Vision 2030. I never wanted to be Bones. 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After graduation, Jeff Bezos found employment on Wall Street, where computer science was increasingly in demand to study market trends. Jeff Bezos: Well, I gave up trying to be a great physicist and Ill tell you, that was very difficult for me. Did you grow up there? He described this life philosophy by stating: "When I'm 80, am I going to regret leaving Wall Street? [268] Bezos donated $100,000 towards a movement against a Washington state income tax in 2010 for "top earners". Jeff Bezos: The wake-up call was finding this startling statistic that web usage in the spring of 1994 was growing at 2,300 percent a year. How do you get something like Amazon.com started? [34], Bezos attended the Student Science Training Program at the University of Florida. [b], His wealth, in 201718 terms, equaled that of 2.7million Americans. Jeff Bezos: Do something youre very passionate about, and dont try to chase what is kind of the hot passion of the day. AWS CEO Andy Jassy succeeded Bezos as the CEO and president of Amazon. Bezos: $1,681,840 annually. I said, Cadabra, as in abra cadabra. And he said, Cadaver? I knew then that was not going to be a good name. [39] To push Amazon forward, Bezos developed the mantra "Get Big Fast", establishing the company's need to scale its operations to produce market dominance. So, stress comes from ignoring things that you shouldnt be ignoring, I think, in large part. My calculus teacher in high school, Mr. Bohr, he had a big influence on me, Ms. Del Champs, who taught chemistry in high school, Ms. Ruehl, who taught physics. Jeff's stepfather is Miguel "Mike" Bezos. Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder and CEO of Amazon, is one of the most famous advocates of using SAT scores in the hiring process. Will you please get your parts list straight before we go? And, were a team of thousands of employees all counting on each other. I just remember there was a point in this where I realized Im never going to be a great physicist. (16-18 year olds in junior or senior year of high school . 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When you do that, you walk away from your annual bonus. You succeeded. Jeffrey Preston Bezos (/bezos/ BAY-zohss;[2] n Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American entrepreneur, media proprietor, investor, and commercial astronaut. What was Jeff Bezos GPA? The letter demanded "Fair wages; fair benefits for retirement, family leave and health care; and a fair amount of job security. Most regrets, by the way, are acts of omission and not commission. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was a smart and enterprising kid, as Brad Stone writes in his 2013 book "The Everything Store.". Those were sort of my two biographical heroes. [7] The company has recruited prominent scientists such as Juan Carlos Izpisa Belmonte (known for work on rejuvenation through reprogramming), Steve Horvath (known for work in epigenetic aging clocks), and Shinya Yamanaka (the Nobel Prize-winning inventor of cellular reprogramming in mammalian cells). On October 10, 2017, he made an estimated $6.24billion in 5 minutes, slightly less than the annual gross domestic product of Kyrgyzstan. Jeff Bezos: I went to my boss and said to him, You know, Im going to go do this crazy thing and Im going to start this company selling books online. This was something that I had already been talking to him about in a sort of more general context, but then he said, Lets go on a walk. And, we went on a two-hour walk in Central Park in New York City, and the conclusion of that was this: he said, You know, this actually sounds like a really good idea to me, but it sounds like it would be a better idea for somebody who didnt already have a good job. He convinced me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision. Also, he was an active member of Quadrangle Clun at Princeton . Jeff Bezos: Oh, tons of teachers! We always had lots of supporters and we always had lots of skeptics, and thats still the same today. So writing the business plan, the initial hiring, getting the company incorporated, all these are simple, almost pedestrian tasks, but thats how you start, one step at a time. As exciting as that prospect may be, Jeff Bezos has had more terrestrial innovations on his mind as well. [119], Bezos makes personal investments through his venture capital vehicle, Bezos Expeditions. I remember there was a time I may have these statistics slightly wrong a few years ago there was a heat wave in the South that killed three percent of chickens, and I think egg prices doubled because there were three percent fewer chickens. [135], Journalist Nellie Bowles of The New York Times has described the public persona and personality of Bezos as that of "a brilliant but mysterious and coldblooded corporate titan". Jeffrey P. Bezos was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. My math teacher in fourth or fifth grade, Mrs. McInerney, she had a big influence on me. [313], Bezos Academy is a group of tuition-free preschools for students from low-income families, which was created by Bezos, and which operate in a manner similar to the Montessori method. [14] Jorgensen was a Danish American unicyclist[15] born in Chicago to a family of Baptists. [285] In March 2019, Bezos's security consultant accused the Saudi government of hacking Bezos's phone. [165] Bezos does not schedule early morning meetings and enforces a two-pizza rulea preference that meetings are small enough for two pizzas to feed everyone in the boardroom. Suddenly youre talking about a lot of money, a lot of investors, a lot of responsibility, and things dont always go smoothly. Notably, journalist Brad Stone wrote a book that described Bezos as a demanding boss as well as hyper-competitive,[137][144] and opined that Bezos perhaps "bet the biggest on the Internet" than anyone else. With the introduction of the Kindle, Amazon quickly captured 95 percent of the U.S. market for books in electronic form e-books. Forensic analysis of Bezos's mobile phone conducted by advisory firm FTI Consulting, concluded it "highly probable" that the hack was achieved using a malicious file hidden in a video sent in a WhatsApp message to Bezos from the personal account of the crown prince on May 1, 2018. The success of Amazon has allowed Bezos to explore his lifelong interest in space travel. Things went fairly well until I got to quantum mechanics and there were about 30 people in the class by that point and it was so hard for me. On July 1, Bloomberg announced that Amazon stock set a record high at . You know, one of the things that its very hard to believe when youre 22 or 23 years old is that you dont already know everything. I would encourage anybody to try to spend time not only with their parents but with their grandparents. [87][88][89] On February 2, 2021, Bezos sent an email[90] to all Amazon employees, telling them the transition would give him "the time and energy [he] need[s] to focus on the Day 1 Fund, the Bezos Earth Fund, Blue Origin, The Washington Post, and [his] other passions. How much did Jeff Bezos make in 2020? What is the role of risk taking? [110], On July 20, 2021, he launched on the NS-16 mission with his half-brother Mark Bezos, Wally Funk, and Oliver Daemen. 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When Jeffrey Preston Bezos graduated from Miami Palmetto Senior High in 1982, he had big plans to change the world. He asked me on the cell phone what name would you like the company incorporated under. "[163] During the 1990s and early 2000s at Amazon, he was characterized as trying to quantify all aspects of running the company, often listing employees on spreadsheets and basing executive decisions on data. [266], According to public campaign finance records, Bezos supported the electoral campaigns of Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, two Democratic U.S. senators from Washington. In typically methodical fashion, Bezos reviewed the top 20 mail order businesses, and asked himself which could be conducted more efficiently over the Internet than by traditional means. ", "Amazon is celebrating its 25th birthday. During the period between 1986 and early 1994, he worked on Wall Street in several related fields. I have a 14-month old son, and its very easy for me to if I think about myself when Im 80, I know I want to watch that little guy grow up, and so its I dont want to be 80 and think, Shoot! [276] Controversy over this was raised when General James Mattis accepted a headquarters tour invitation from Bezos and co-ordinated the deal through Sally Donnelly, a lobbyist who previously worked for Amazon. [164] Journalist Walt Mossberg dubbed the idea that someone who cannot tolerate criticism or critique shouldn't do anything new or interesting "The Bezos Principle". The company would be called Amazon, for the seemingly endless South American river with its numberless branches. Jeff Bezos was convinced that this global network, primarily the domain of academics and government scientists, could become a vibrant new venue for commerce, with the right product and the right plan. At the time of the sale, Bezos expressed respect and admiration for the Graham familys stewardship of the Post and announced his intention to retain the existing management. Here's how the e-commerce giant got its name", "Jeff Bezos convinced 22 investors to back his new company Amazon in 1994. In all, he graduated with a 4.0 GPA. What was it about computer science? Who Will Win? Undergraduate students with a 3.0 or higher GPA were eligible to join this fraternity. [105] To execute this program, Blue Origin built six of the vehicles to support all phases of testing and operations: no-passenger test flights, flights with test passengers, and commercial-passenger weekly operations. By August 2020, his personal stake in the company gave Jeff Bezos an estimated net worth of more than $200 billion, making him by far the wealthiest individual in history. When the Internets stock market bubble burst, Amazon re-structured, and while other dot.com start-ups evaporated, Amazon was posting profits. Venture capitalists were totally uninterested. [233], In June 2019, Bezos purchased three adjoining apartments overlooking Madison Square Park in Manhattan, including a penthouse, for a combined total of US$80million, making this one of the most expensive real estate purchases within New York City in 2019. If I ever get the chance Id like to go investigate the moon and Mars and tool around our solar system a little bit. Bell Story: Companies starting out . And we had a teletype that was connected by an old acoustic modem. [308][309][310] In April 2020, early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Bezos donated $100 million to food banks through Feeding America. [99] In May 2013, Bezos met with Richard Branson, chairman of Virgin Galactic, to discuss commercial spaceflight opportunities and strategies. I think we actually saw this. By the time I was in my high school years, I wanted to be a physicist and then by the time I got to college I wanted to be a computer programmer. Its just that the level of visibility is so much higher. I remember in fourth grade we had this wonderful contest which was the people in the class, whoever there was some prize I cant even remember what it was whoever could read the most Newbery Award winners in a year and I read through I didnt end up winning. [48][53][54] He warned many early investors that there was a 70% chance that Amazon would fail or go bankrupt. I had some family role models. My grandfather did sort of all of his own veterinary care on the cattle. [277] In November 2019, when the contract was awarded to Microsoft instead, Amazon filed a lawsuit with allegations that the bidding process was biased. That is actually something I should have mentioned. Maybe for some people it would be. These were angel investors. I was five and six years older than them. [26] Lawrence retired early to his family's ranch near Cotulla, Texas, where Jeff would spend many summers in his youth. That $250,000 investment resulted in 3.3million shares of Google stock, worth about $3.1billion in 2017. Jeff Bezos: I think I already answered it, because I think the American Dream is about liberty. [288][289] Saudi Arabia has denied the claim. Getty. The things I got into trouble on were like I lost my library privileges one time which was really inconvenient for me for laughing too loudly in the library. [117] In January 2016, Bezos set out to reinvent the newspaper as a media and technology company by reconstructing its digital media, mobile platforms, and analytics software. Over the course of their 25-year marriage, Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos raised four children and maintained homes in Medina, Washington and in Beverly Hills, Manhattan, Washington, D.C., and Van Horn, Texas. [290], Bezos donated to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center several times between 2009 and 2017. They would always take pity on me and sort of open up and let us ship things late. For several years, as much as a third of the shares in the company were held by members of the Bezos family. They began dating and were married in 1993. Stress doesnt come from hard work, for example. You know the business plan wont survive its first encounters with reality. What were your intentions when you left Princeton? When the company went public in 1997, skeptics wondered if an Internet-based start-up bookseller could maintain its position once traditional retail heavyweights like Barnes and Noble or Borders entered the Internet picture. [251][252] All survived; Bezos sustained only minor injuries and was discharged from a local hospital the same day. [256][257][258] Subsequently, National Enquirer revealed that Bezos had an affair with media personality Lauren Snchez; the affair with Sanchez had lasted for months. Jeff Bezos: On a personal level, very interested in exploration of space. Two years later, the market value of shares in Amazon was greater than that of its two biggest retail competitors combined, and Borders was striking a deal for Amazon to handle its Internet traffic. [240], Bezos is known for creating an adversarial environment at Amazon, as well as insulting and verbally abusing his employees. We werent betting on the Internet, his mother has said. Will I regret missing the beginning of the Internet? It was too embarrassing. Jeff Bezos: I was a very nerdy and good student. He transitioned into the banking industry when he became a product manager at Bankers Trust from 1988 to 1990. With a net worth of US$125 billion as of April 2023, Bezos is the third-wealthiest person in the world and was the wealthiest from 2017 to 2021, according to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes.[5][6]. Jeff Bezos is known for asking job candidates what their SAT score was, in order to determine whether or not they are qualified for a job. Its great. Jeff Bezos: If you are a lottery winner, as I am, then one of the things that you get a chance to do at some point in your life is to be a philanthropist and so, I didnt grow up hoping, Boy! [293] That same month, Janet Camarena, director of transparency initiatives at Foundation Center, was quoted by CNBC as having questions about Bezos's new Day 1 Fund, including the fund's structure and how exactly it will be funded. Bezos and his team continued improving the site, introducing such unheard-of features as one-click shopping, customer reviews, and e-mail order verification. [166] When interviewing candidates for jobs at Amazon, he has stated he considers three inquiries: can he admire the person, can the person raise the common standard, and under what circumstances could the person become exemplary. If you do bad things, if you go murder somebody, that would be bad and that would be an act of commission that you would regret. a 2.65 GPA [93] The 18-year-old Bezos stated that he wanted to preserve Earth from overuse through resource depletion. [210], On March 6, 2018, Bezos was designated the wealthiest person in the world, with a registered net worth of $112billion. In January 2019, the couple announced plans to divorce. Jeffreys maternal ancestors were early settlers in Texas, and over the generations had acquired a 25,000-acre ranch at Cotulla. [84] On October 2, 2018, Bezos announced a company-wide wage increase, which Sanders applauded. He graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He received Germany's 2018 Axel Springer Award for Business Innovation and Social Responsibility. And we did a lot of analysis on that to pick that category as the first best category for e-commerce online, but there were no guarantees that that was a good category. Alumnus of the Phi Beta Kappa organization at Princeton, Bezos was a Phi Beta Kappa member. [133][134], In September 2021, Bezos co-founded Altos Labs with Mail.ru founder Yuri Milner. "[254] Bezos's family corporation Zefram LLC is named after Zefram Cochrane, a character from Star Trek. You know, I left this Wall Street firm in the middle of the year. He was an Immigrant who came into the U.S. from Cuba in 1968. Bezos once worked in a McDonald's for a short time during his high-school days. The family later moved to Miami, Florida, during Bezos High School days. [166] Instead of using presentation slides, Bezos requires high-level employees to present information with six-page narratives. He has also supported Democrats U.S. representative John Conyers, as well as Patrick Leahy and Republican Spencer Abraham, U.S. senators serving on committees dealing with Internet-related issues. Fortune magazine named Bezos its 2012 Businessperson of the Year.. What we need is packing tables.. In 1986, Jeff graduated with honours from Princeton University with a 4.2 GPA. Its highly unusual, and that started me about thinking, What kind of business plan might make sense in the context of that growth?. He was also a real pioneer and an inventor, doing new things. Im working for this person? We were doing our day jobs, which might have been computer programming all the different things that ten people will do in a tiny start-up company. At Princeton, Bezos had a GPA of 4.2, but even before his Princeton days he was a high achiever. I remember the very first occupation I wanted to be when, I think, I was about six years old was an archeologist. Yet Amazon flowed on like its mighty namesake, still expanding, but also showing profits, while other promising start-ups faded from the scene. I was doing well in terms of the grades I was getting, but for me it was laborious, hard work. Was Jeff Bezos a smart student? He was betting his own savings and his parents and friends on a totally untried notion: that people would buy books through a little-known network of computers called the Internet. [198][200], After a rumor broke out that Amazon was developing a smartphone, Bezos's net worth rose to $30.5billion in 2014.
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