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that's before jeff bezos would become the founder CEO and president of the
world's most influential retail chain amazon.com unbelievable before Jeff
Bezos would survive a helicopter crash and check himself out of the hospital on
the very same day before Jeff Bezos invested a billion dollars a year in a
commercial space flight bought up various businesses including Whole Foods
twitch and would set out to change the media landscape with the introduction of
Amazon Prime it's time to go back to the moon this time to stay Jeff Bezos became
one of the richest and most influential men alive by changing the way we shop
but it's only been more recently that the world has discovered just what makes
this man tick now his story is quite the remarkable one the son of a high school
student who soon after divorced his biological father to marry a Cuban
immigrant who came to America with little more than the clothes on his back
despite these humble up rings well Jeff Bezos was a child genius and also a
die-hard Star Trek fan combining his intellect and his passion with space
exploration well the man risked it all on an internet startup that even he knew
could come crashing down at any point over the past couple decades he was able
to play his cards right and is well on his way to becoming the real world
version of jean-luc Picard but we'll get into all that in just a
minute what's going on guys boy Michael Cretu Ackman's the life and career of
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Jeffrey Preston Bezos was actually born by the name Jeffery Preston Jorgensen on
January 12th 1964 the son of Jaclyn guys Jorgensen who was a high school student
at the time and Ted Jorgensen a humble bike shop
owner knew his father could only watch as his wife and son walked out on his
life forever early on in Jeff's life I remember them
coming to visit me for some reason it was cold and he had as little winter
coat on just remember I'm walking down the aisle coming to see the moment he
has since come to deeply regret but not for the reason you may think what would
you say to him I just feel like telling mine used to changing diapers
what do you say the man has priorities or rather he did no Ted he died in 2015
having never reconciled with his son in a meaningful way or IP to the memories
of those dirty diapers soon after Jaclyn divorced Ted she
married Miguel Mike Bezos a Cuban immigrant and after their wedding Mike
adopted a four-year-old Jeff whose surname was then legally changed to
Bezos now the family picked up and moved to Houston Texas where Mike he worked as
an engineer for Exxon well in Texas Jeff he attended River Oaks Elementary School
in Houston his maternal grandfather Lawrence Preston guys well he was a
former regional director of the US Atomic Energy Commission in nearby
Albuquerque the town made famous for Breaking Bad and for throwing a pizza on
a roof young Bezos would spend many summers with his granddaddy working in
the family ranch near Cotulla a ranch II would later purchase himself and expand
from a humble abode of Oh 25 thousand acres to something with a little more
leg room we're talking three hundred thousand acres to be exact as they say
everything is bigger in Texas but despite how big everything is over there
well the Bezos they just weren't satisfied at Texas they moved to Miami
Florida where Jeff intended by a me Palmetto high school now Jeff he got
himself a job at a local McDonald's as a short-order line cook and this was
during the breakfast shift no we should have known right then and there how
clever this guy is now every day he got access to breakfast crack love before
was ever a 24-hour option he was an early adopter long before the internet
came around now unfortunately the grease it
gave them terrible acne and he wasn't allowed to serve the customers only cook
the food now don't let his former employment fool
you Jeff was a smarty pants he racked up a ward after a ward a National Merit
Scholar a silver Knight Award winner and even became the high school
valedictorian now there he gave a speech that was described as such as the
valedictorian of Miami Palmetto Senior High School's class of 1982
well Bezos used his graduation speech to unfurl his vision for Humanity he
dreamed aloud of the day where millions of his fellow Earthlings would relocate
to colonies in space a local newspaper reported that his intention was to get
all people off the earth and see it turned into a huge national park now if
you want some further corroboration of what Jeff Bezos was dreaming of back in
high school well when reporters tracked down Bezos
high school girlfriend well she said the reason he's earning so much money is to
get to outer space now as a lifelong Star Trek fan well this should come as
little surprise now in 1986 he graduated summa cum lot from Princeton University
with a 4.2 grade point average no of course while at Princeton he just so
happened to be the president of the local chapter of students for the
exploration and development of space can you imagine how crazy those parties were
hmm
now after Princeton he was offered a job at Intel Bell Labs and Anderson
consulting among others now we turned them all down for a
company called fatale never heard of it me neither it turns out that fatale was
the telecommunications start-up andit asked Jeff with the job of building in a
network for international trade now Jeff is Patel's Union didn't last long and
after that well he bounced around he acted as a product manager at Bankers
Trust from 88 to 90 before joining de sha a newly formed
hedge fund with a strong emphasis on math now he became the senior vice
president at the age of 30 and he worked there until 1994 it was while working
there that Bezos he first met Mackenzie Tuttle a research associate at the firm
now the two they were Wed a year later and they would go on to be parents to
four children three sons and a daughter adopted from China in late 93 and early
94 s when Jeff Bezos life would change forever
then we decided to quit his cushy day job at de sha and jump in his car drive
across the country from New York to Seattle and take a chance on his dream
was that dream oh you know an oldie but a goodie
he wanted to create the world's first online bookstore July 5th is the day
that Jeff started selling books out of his garage to people all over the world
long before I'd wager to guess a vast majority of the world's population even
knew something like this was an option now Jeff he almost named his company
Cadabra but well he decided in the last moment not to because so the first name
of the company was Cadabra Inc and it comes second half of abracadabra when I
called the lawyer on a cell phone and said Cadabra Inc he said cadaver and
didn't you know was pretty obvious that that wasn't a very good name initially
Jeff helped finance the company with a $300,000 loan from mom-and-pop who were
resistant and in disbelief that he would trade in his high-profile Wall Street
job to sell books on the worldwide web at the time what the hell was that no
Jeff he was quick to warn each and every investor that there was a very good
chance that the company it could fail or go bankrupt in the first
year of opening Amazon the come to the public we didn't do any paid advertising
and all of our growth was fueled by word-of-mouth and media exposure but by
pursuing his mantra of get big fast within three years Bezos he was taking
the company public now despite criticism of his business
model will he always maintained that the growth of the Internet it would
eventually overtake his primary competitors in the big box stars we're
talking borders and Barnes and Noble by 1990 HF he made good on his promise
to be more than just the bookstore diversifying and expanding his product
lines to include consumers goods of all types we're talking music home videos
and then well today you can basically get anything yeah Bob Dylan Van Morrison
hmm and of course you can listen to these you can listen to sample Bezos
childhood ambition finally began to take shape in 2000 when he launched Blue
Origin an aerospace manufacturer and suborbital spaceflight service company
that he spent nearly a billion dollars a year funding but don't worry we're
seeing real results they do that as a 15 Blue Origin they successfully reached
space for the first time hey wait a second haven't we done that like a
hundred times already huh
oh my god okay it doesn't matter did you see that this is worth it now 2,000 to
Bezos he launched Amazon Web service to gather data from weather channels and
website traffic but that same year Bezos and Amazon they experienced its first
real downward swing rapid spending was causing undue strain on a stagnating
revenue stream and the company it nearly went bankrupt
Bezos closed distribution centers and laid off around 14% of his workforce
then as if things weren't already bad enough in March of 2003 while Bezos was
one of the three passengers in a helicopter that crashed in West Texas
after the crafts tail hit a tree thankfully there were no fatalities and
Bezos will he only sustained minor injuries being released from hospital
that very same day the later that year Amazon had bounced back in a big way
turning a profit of 400 million dollars by 2007 Bezos was launching the Amazon
Kindle with a design to initiate readers into a whole new way to experience the
medium you decide you're gonna reinvent something that has been around for five
centuries you are gonna rightly receive some
skepticism during the early parts of this decade is when Bezos public image
began to shift you started weight training and wearing tailored suits
enacting a complete physical overhaul and going from this to this what does
that remind me of now say what you want about him the man is clearly committed
to learning from and following in the footsteps of the great space explorers
who came before him know Jeff's success he grew hand in hand with his ambitions
and by 2013 well Bezos secured a six hundred million dollar contract with the
CIA to utilize his Amazon Web Services now later that same year Amazon was
recognized as the largest online shopping retailer in the world his next
big breakthrough was a little device you may refer to as Alexa dad how do you
spell cantaloupe cantaloupe see a and T Alexa how do you spell cantaloupe
good job now he stated that the original goal was to create a Star Trek computer
I think you did just that also in 2016 well Jeff he was given the
honor of appearing in a Star Trek production way 2017 his wealth surpassed
100 billion dollars and he was formally designated the wealthiest person in the
world by Forbes in March of 2018 with a net worth of one hundred and twelve
billion dollars but not long after he would also enter into the world's most
expensive divorce but I'm sure Lauren Sanchez she was worth it I don't know
after the rest of the story well I think we're gonna wrap this one up here
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