Amazon

Jobs -Vice President at D.E. Shaw. When Jeff graduated he need a job he first started working at D.E. Shaw & Co but as he slowly started to work his way up he soon eventually became the Vice President.
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-Jeff Bezos was the creator of Amazon.com and he got this job by thinking about how he can help with the book business industry. He made amazon for the purchasing of books. He is now presently the C.E.O. After his job as Vice President for Bankers Trust Company he then made amazon and continued on to soon make Blue Origin. He first made amazon in a small apartment in Seattle then soon expanded after millions of books being sold to now being a huge exceling business.

-Jeff Bezos created Blue Origin for his love for space travel. He is the C.E.O of Blue origin also and continues to work on the advancement of Blue Origin. He started Blue Origin in Houston, Texas for travel into space for people instead of just astronauts.

-He also became the Vice President of the Bankers Trust Company. He then stayed at this job from 1988-1990. While working here he soon thought of the idea of amazon but he didn’t put his plan for making it into motion until 5 years after he quit his job.

Investments -First investment-D.E. Shaw & Co.

-Second investment-Amazon

-Third investment-Google

-Fourth investment-Twitter

-Fifth investment-Social Gaming Network

Business Success

-In 2006, Amazon had $10.7 billion in annual sales, making Amazon America’s most successful online retailer, tripling sales of their closest competitor.

-Within one month after Bezos opened Amazon (July 16, 1995) to the earth, being noticed only by word, had sold books in every state in the U.S., and over 40 foreign countries. Two months after it’s release, Amazon earned $20k worth of sales per week.

Awards - In 1999, Jeff Bezos was honored as Time’s Person of the year.

- Although this isn’t an award given to Amazon, since 2008, the Amazon Breakthrough Novelist Award is given to an unknown author who has written a masterpiece of fiction. There are a few categories for different genres, so there is one winner per genre of literature. For more infromation on this subject, search here:

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. Inventions

-Jeff Bezos invented amazon and was the sole creator of it making him the founder and the owner of the website. Jeff Invented this because he saw the slow uprising in book sales and saw how many people had little choice of where to buy books.

-When he was young he made two inventions also he made a solar microwave and a door buzzer for his own personal use. These objects would soon be used for later with the help of advance secruity and heating homemade meals.

Patents

-Jeff Bezos only got the patent for his home made creation amazon and it was the only item he got the patent on. Since he own the patent nobody is able to steal the company name and products from him.

Salary -Jeff Bezos earns near $81,000 annually, which is considered extremely low for a CEO.

-For other compensations, he earns over $1,600,000.

Charitable giving -Jeff Bezos, in 2011, donated $10 million to the Museum of History & Industry.

-In 2009, Jeff Bezos donated $10 million for an immunotherapy program.

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