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Jeff Bezos
said
And I do like group invention.
— "#405 - Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin", on Lex Fridman Podcast, found on DeepCast (14 December 2023)
Jeff Bezos
American business magnate (born 1964)
- Fame80.5
- Momentum10.1
- Global rank#212
Source-basedFalling
- Fame80.5
- Momentum10.1
- Global rank#212
- United States rank#182
- Founders rank#10
- Wikipedia1.1M
Born 1964 · age 62United States
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Updated 2026-06-19
He turned an online bookstore launched on a cross-country road trip into the world's largest e-commerce company, then flew to space in his own rocket. By 2026, his net worth sits around $284 billion.
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Bezos was born in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and Miami, graduating from Princeton in 1986 with an engineering degree before working on Wall Street until early 1994. He founded Amazon in mid-1994 during a road trip from New York to Seattle, starting as an online bookstore and expanding into video streaming, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence through Amazon Web Services. He became the first centibillionaire on the Forbes Real Time Billionaires Index and was named the richest man in modern history when his net worth hit $150 billion in July 2018, holding the title of wealthiest p…
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Jeff Bezos
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If you have a really good idea, stick to it, but be flexible on how you get there. Be stubborn on your vision but flexible on the details...
— As quoted in Is Amazon Unstoppable? by Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker (10 October 2019)
Jeff Bezos
said
That kind of divine discontent comes from observing customers and noticing that things can always be better.
— Jeff Bezos explains why Amazon doesn’t really care about its competitors 17 September, 2013.
Jeff Bezos
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We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.
— Jeffrey Bezos, Washington Post’s next owner, aims for a new ‘golden era’ at the newspaper. September 2013
Jeff Bezos
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We’re building what’s called a private cloud for them [the C.I.A.], … because they don’t want to be on the public cloud.
— Amazon's Jeff Bezos looks to the future - CBS News.
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$258.9Bestimated · 2026
▲ 27%vs 2020
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