Jeff Bezos is an American entrepreneur who founded Amazon.com in 1994. He started Amazon as an online bookstore and grew it to become one of the largest online retailers in the world, selling a wide variety of products. Bezos stepped down as CEO of Amazon in 2021 but remains the executive chairman. He is also involved in other ventures like Blue Origin focused on space exploration. Bezos' leadership of Amazon made him one of the richest people in the world and helped drive the growth of e-commerce globally.

1. JEFF BEZOS
AN AMERICAN ENTREPRENUER

2. WHO IS JEFF BEZOS ?
➢JEFFERY PRESTON “JEFF” BEZOS is an American entrepreneur.
➢ He played a key role in the growth of e-commerce as the
founder and chief executive officer of amazon.com.
➢ Amazon.com is an online merchant of books and later of a wide
variety of products.
➢He is the fourth wealthiest person in the world according to both
Bloomberg’s billionaries index and forbes.
➢He was born in Albuquerque,New Mexico,on 12 January 1964.

3. Family background
Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen (Bezos) was born as the son Jacklyn (nee Gise) and
Theodore Jorgensen.
Jeff’s parents was divorced when he was two years old.
After divorced, his mother married Cuban immigrant Migule “Mike”Bezos in April
1968.
Shortly after the wedding, Mike adopted four year old “Jeff” whose surname was then
legally changed from Jorgensen to “Bezos”

4. Education
➢ The young Bezos attended River Oaks Elementary School in Houston from
fourth to sixth grade.
➢Bezos attended Miami Palmetto Senior High School
➢He completed his education from Princeton University and graduated with
a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and computer science .

5. Career
➢After graduating from Princeton University in 1986, Bezos worked on wall
Street in a variety of realated fileds from 1986 to early 1994.
➢ Bezos founded Amazon in late 1994 on road trip from New York City to
Seattle .
➢In 2000, Bezos founded the Aeroscope manufacturer & sub orbital
spaceflight services company “Blue Origin”.
➢ Bezos makes personal investments through his Venture capital vehicle,
Bezos Expeditions.
➢In September 2021, bezos cofounded Altos Labs dedicated to harnessing
cellular programming to develop longevity theapeutics

6. Amazon
➢ Jeff Bezos incorporated the company in July 1994, and the site went Online as amazon.com in 1995
➢ He initially set up his company in his garage.
➢ Bezos initially named his new company Cadabra but later changed the name to Amazon because the
name begins with letter A , which is at the beginning of the alphabet. So name starting with the letter A
would appear sooner when customers conducted online research.
➢ Amazon is major provider of cloud computing services.
➢ Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified,selling DVD’s, CD’s, MP3
downloads, software, video games ,electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jwellery and
many more things.
➢ From the “Earth’s biggest bookstore” it becomes “Earth’s biggest anything store”

7. ➢ In February 2021, Bezos step down as the CEO of the company and
become the Executive Chairman of the Amazon Board.

8. Some Headlines about jeff Bezos
➢In December 2013,bezos made headlines when he revealed a new experimental
initiative by Amazon called “Amazon Prime Air” using drones remote controlled
machines that can perform an array of human task to prov ide delivery services to
customers.
➢In 5 August 2013 he purchased the Washington Post for $250 million in cash.
➢In 2007, introduce Amazon Kindle a handled digital book that allowed users to
buy, download, read and store their book selctions.
➢ On 20 July, 2021, Bezos launched on the NS-16 mission with his half brother
Mark Bezos.

9. Recognition
➢ In 1999,Bezos received his first major award when Time named him Person of the Year.
➢ In 2008, he was selected by US News & World Report as one of America’s best leaders.
➢ Bezos was awarded an honorary dectorate in science and technology from carnegieMellon University in
2008.
➢ In 2011, the economist gave Bezos and Gregg Zehr an Innovation award for the Amazon kindle.
➢ In 2012,Bezos was named Buisness person of the year by Fortune.
➢ 2014-2018 ,he was ranked the best performing CEO in the world by Harvard Buisness Review.
➢ In 2016, Bezos received a $250,000 prize for winning the Heinlein Prize for Advances in Space
Commercialization, which he donated to the students for the exploration and development of space.
➢ He received Germany’s 2018 Axel Springer Award for Business Innovation and social responsibility.

10. Key behind the success of Amazon
➢“Customers is our first priority.”
➢“There are two kinds of companies those that work to charge more and those
that work to charge less.” We will be the second.
➢“if you do build a grate experience ,customers tell each other about that . word
of mouth is very powerful”
➢“we see our customers as invited guest to a party and we are the hosts . It’s our
job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little
bit better.
JEFF BEZOS

11. THANK YOU
Presentation By,
PRATIKSHA UDGIR.