Jeff Bezos Unknown Facts

Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, is currently the richest man in the world.  With his business registering unstoppable growth in the e commerce sector, his net worth is $ 161 billion as of May 2019.  Keep reading to know some lesser known facts about this business tycoon.

Unknown facts about Jeff Bezos:

1) Jeffery Bezos was born on January 12th, 1964 and since childhood, he had a passion for science.  When he saw the Apollo 11 moon landing, at the age of 5, he decided he wanted to be an astronaut.  He even set up a science laboratory in the garage and came up with new projects every now and then.  One of his projects was an electric alarm which kept his siblings away from his room.

2) Bezos spent his summers as a fry cook at McDonald’s, Miami when he was a teenager.  He proved his tech skills by setting up a buzzer to let the employees know when to flip burgers or pull fries out of the fryer.

3) Jeff Bezos is a long term thinker and this is evident from the fact he is trying to build a 10,000 year clock.  Unlike conventional clocks, this clock will be designed to tick only once a year for 10,000 years. It is said he is going to spend $ 42 million on this project.

5) Harvard Business Review declared Jeff Bezos as the “Greatest Living CEO” in the year 2014.

6) Catering to his passion for science, Bezos founded “Blue Origin,” a privately owned aerospace manufacturer and sub orbital space flight services company, in the year 2000.

7) Jeff Bezos is an avid reader.  He makes sure his employees also adopt the same practise.  The top three executives of his company are made to read the three books—The Effective Executive, The Goal and The Innovators Solutions.

8) In 1999, Bezos received his first major award when Time named him the Person Of The Year.  Along with this, he has several honorary doctorates and was featured in Fortune’s list of 50 great leaders of the world for three years straight.

9) We are all used to seeing  Bezos in formal suits, but for a change, you can see him dressed as an alien in the movie Star Trek Beyond, in which he made a cameo.  Bezos is a huge fan of Star Trek.

10) Along with Amazon and Blue Origin, Bezos also owns the iconic newspaper, the Washington Post.

 Jeff Bezos, who started Amazon by selling books, has come a long way.  He is currently the king of the e commerce sector and is likely to take over the aerospace sector with “Blue Origin.”

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