Jeff Bezos — CEO and Founder of Amazon

Elevate Your Potential Magazine :: Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Inc. — the largest retailer on the World Wide Web.  Prior to becoming an e-commerce pioneer, he studied computer science and electrical engineering at Princeton University.  Bezos launched Amazon.com after his stint as a senior vice-president at a Wall Street investment firm.

As of 2015, Jeff Bezos’ net worth is $49.5 Billion (USD).  According to Bloomberg Business, Amazon.com Inc. surpassed Wal-Mart Stores Inc. as the world’s biggest retailer with a market value of $247.6 billion. That compares with Wal-Mart’s $230.5 billion market value.

 

Business Insider Interview: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos

 

 

 

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Jeff Bezos, Founder & CEO of Blue Origin: View 2 | NASA Kennedy
Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Blue Origin, speaks during an event at Space Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida for the announcement that Blue Origin will build rockets at Exploration Park at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and launch them from SLC-36 at the Cape. Looking on is Rick Scott, Florida governor.  Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

 

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RT @EntrepreneurQ: I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying — Jeff Bezos http:…

 

 

 

 

Jeff Bezos on Biography.com

•  To learn more about business pioneer Jeff Bezos, visit his profile at:  http://www.biography.com

 

Jeff Bezos’s Top 10 Rules For Success (Video)

He left a high paying job to bet on himself and start a .com business when everyone thought he was crazy. He built it to become the largest retailer in the world and prove his doubters wrong. He’s now worth over $30 billion and is one of the top 15 richest people in the world. He’s Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, and here are his Top 10 Rules for Success.  Visit Evan Carmichael online at:  http://www.evancarmichael.com
1. Have no regrets
2. Follow your heart not your head
3. Invest more in the product than marketing
4. Pick a good name
5. Stand for something
6. Focus on the customer
7. Focus on your passion
8 Build a culture
9. Premium products at non-premium prices
10. Take a risk

 

 

More resources:

Jeff Bezos – Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/profile/jeff-bezos/
It’s been a good stretch for Bezos. In July Amazon.com announced better- than-expected net income–$92 million–for the second quarter. That news boosted …

Why Jeff Bezos is Our Greatest Living CEO – Forbes

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Forbes–Why Bezos is Our Greatest Living CEO.  What keeps you from being the next Steve Jobs, or Bezos? Can you spot trends and provide trend-supporting solutions for customers? Or are you stymied because you’re spending too much time tryi …

Amazon.com

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com

Bezos incorporated the company (as Cadabra) in July 1994, and the site went online as amazon. com in 1995. The company was renamed …

 

Blue Origin

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue Origin

Blue Origin is a privately funded aerospace company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos . The company was awarded $3.7 million in …

10 Key Ingredients to Innovation from CEO of Amazon.com

Entrepreneur and e-commerce pioneer Bezos had an early love of computers and studied computer science and electrical engineering at Princeton University. After graduation, he worked on Wall Street, and in 1990 became the youngest senior vice president at the investment firm D.E. Shaw.

Four years later, he quit his lucrative job to open Amazon.com, a virtual bookstore that became one of the Internet’s biggest success stories.

 

 

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