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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 23