Treasure Magazine volume
8
Meet the founder of
Amazon.com
Hello..., guess you have heard of online
shopping somehow either from a friend
or a colleague? Yea! probably you should
also have heard of Amazon.com, that's
great! Today we will be getting to know
the brain box behind Amazon; who he
was and who he has become. Jeffrey
Bezos was born in 1964 in Albuquerque,
New Mexico. Bezos’ mother Jacklyn Alex Furman was a teenager at the
time of his birth. As a matter of fact her marriage to Jeff's Dad only lasted
for a short time and by the time Jeff was four his mother married her
second husband Miguel Bezos a Cuban who immigrated to USA. He
legally adopted Jeff and changed his surname from Jorgensen to Bezos.
Jeff attended River oaks elementary school from his fourth to sixth grade.
His interest in scientific and technological skill started right from his
childhood days, his family later moved to Miami Florida where Jeff had
his high school education from the Miami palmetto high school. While in
high school it was so glaring that Jeff was a genius awaiting
manifestation as he won the silver night award in the Student Science
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