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Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos 2005
Personal information
Birth dateJanuary 12, 1964(age 47)
Place of birthAlbuquerque, New Mexico
Alma materPrinceton University (B.S.)
OccupationChairman and CEO of Amazon.com
Net worth(+)US$12.6 billion (2010)
AwardsTime Person of the Year 1999 Washington Ceo Person of The Year at the same time

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Jeffrey Preston "Jeff" Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is the founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Amazon.com. Bezos, a Tau Beta Pi graduate of Princeton University, worked as a financial analyst for D. E. Shaw & Co. before founding Amazon in 1994.

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8.17 min. | 4.81 user rating		 Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos gave the Baccalaureate address to Princeton University's Class of 2010. Bezos graduated from Princeton in 1986 with a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. He was introduced by Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilghman. Bezos spoke to the Class of 2010 about the difference between choices and gifts. Cleverness, Bezos pointed out, is a gift, while being kind to others is a choice. One's character, he suggested, is reflected not in the gifts one is endowed with at birth but rather by the choices one makes over the course of a lifetime. Full transcript here: www.princeton.edu
18.73 min. | 4.88 user rating		 www.geek.com Amazon's Kindle 2 doing text-to-speech. Demo by Jeff Bezos.
1.85 min. | 3.10 user rating		 I often share with friends and coworkers that Jeff Bezos Regret Minimization Framework had a great influence on my life and how I make important decisions. After several years of looking, I was able to locate the actual video I watched that had such an influence on my life.
2.65 min. | 4.83 user rating		 www.ted.com The dot-com boom and bust is often compared to the Gold Rush. But Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos says its more like the early days of the electric industry.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http
19.17 min. | 4.58 user rating
Jeff Bezos is the founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of amazon.com
0.38 min. | 4.52 user rating		 Blue Origin, the company formed by Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos, has developed a vertical ascent and descent rocket. This video is of a Nov. 13th 2006 test launch of a prototype named Goddard. Blue Origin plans on developing a small reusable launch vehicle similar to the one shown in order to provide low cost access to suborbital flights greater than 100km (accepted as the boundary of space by the international community) to paying costumers.
0.82 min. | 4.80 user rating		 A conversation with Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos about The Kindle.
2.23 min. | 3.95 user rating		 Amazon may have started out simply, selling books online, but these days it peddles everything from pickled carrots to two-carat diamond rings. The Internet's biggest retailer says it logged the best holiday season in its history despite the rough economy. CEO Jeff Bezos credits the $4 billion the company spent on R&D over the past decade.
2.33 min. | 5.0 user rating		 Kingdome Demolition, March 26, 2000, 8:30 am PT, Seattle, WA, as viewed from the Amazon.com Headquarters building, with Jeff Bezos shouting.
0.67 min. | 4.66 user rating

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Cummins' Solso named in 5 best CEOs of decade - The Republic Tweet this news
The Republic--MarketWatch, published by Dow Jones & Co., named Solso with -Jeff Bezos-, of Amazon.com; Howard Schultz, of Starbucks; Eric Schmidt, of Google; and Steve Jobs ... - Date : Thu, 09 Dec 2010 04:12:20 GMT+00:00
Hutch Snaps Up $5.6M at Holiday Gala - Seattle Post Intelligencer Tweet this news
Seattle Post Intelligencer---...- donations at the last two galas, which it needed in order to receive a full $10 million matching donation from the family of Amazon founder -Jeff Bezos-. ... - Date : Thu, 09 Dec 2010 01:32:37 GMT+00:00
Free and Abundant Information - Benzinga Tweet this news
Benzinga--Two great minds of our time, -Jeff Bezos- and renowned investor Wilbur Ross, recently discussed information in two separate interviews. ... - Date : Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:55:59 GMT+00:00
PETA wants animal-fighting books removed - UPI.com Tweet this news
UPI.com--13 (UPI) -- A US animal-rights group has written Amazon.com chief -Jeff Bezos-, urging him to remove books on dog and cockfighting from the online store. ... - Date : Sat, 13 Nov 2010 18:31:28 GMT+00:00
Slate Takes on Amazon's Unfair Advantage - Columbia Journalism Review (blog) Tweet this news
Columbia Journalism Review (blog)---Jeff Bezos-, Amazon's founder, moved from New York to Seattle to start the company. “We could have started Amazon.com anywhere,” he told Fast Company in 1996 ... - Date : Wed, 08 Dec 2010 07:07:43 GMT+00:00

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People
Jeff Bezos, Tony Hsieh, Brian Krueger, Brian McBride, Tom Szkutak, Brian Valentine, Werner Vogels, Gregg Zehr
Former: Rick Dalzell, Ram Shriram
Products and services
WebsitesA9.com, AbeBooks, Alexa (Ranking, Toolbar, Web Services), Amapedia, Amazon China, Askville, CDNOW, Digital Photography Review, Endless.com, Fresh, IMDb (Box Office Mojo), Marketplace, Payments, PlanetAll, Shelfari, Zappos.com, Woot.com
Web ServicesAAWS, CloudFront, EC2, FPS, Mechanical Turk, S3, SimpleDB, RDS, SQS, VPC
DigitalAudible.com, Kindle, Lexcycle, Mobipocket, MP3, Reflexive Entertainment, Video on Demand
Technology1-Click, aStore, Carbonado, Dynamo, Gurupa, Lab126, Obidos
Investments43 Things, Amie Street (Songza), LibraryThing, Sellaband
OtherASIN, Breakthrough Novel Award, Fishbowl, Statistically Improbable Phrases, Vine

Time Persons of the Year

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