In this, we are going to some interesting facts about Jeff Bezos. Jeff Bezos the founder of Amazon and the richest person in the world. Amazon is the largest retailer on the World Wide Web and the leader in e-commerce. Jeff completed his graduation from Princeton University in 1986. Bezos was also a founder of Blue Origin, which was a spaceflight company.
1- Jeff Bezos bumped Bill Gates
Currently, Jeff Bezos is the richest person in the world. Before Bezos the co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates hold the top position on the list of Forbes, From 1995 to 2017, Gates holds that position and in 2018, Jeff Bezos bumped Bill Gates. The current net worth of Jeff Bezos is 18,650 crores USD.
2- Jeff Bezos's net worth is greater than in some of the big countries of the world.
Countries like Costa Rica with a GDP of $65 billion, Iceland's is $31.6 billion, and Afghanistan is about $22.9 billion. As per the estimation, the current net worth of Bezos's was more than these three countries combined GDP.
3- Bezos is very caring toward his customer.
Bezos never ignore the review of his customers. Also, Jeff Bezos allows his customers to mail him directly, it's hard to believe but if he got a serious concern or issue from his customers, then he forwards that issue to his team for work on it.
4- Jeff wanted to become an Astronaut.
When Jeff was 5 years old, he saw the landing of Apollo 11 on the moon and decided to become an astronaut in his life. And after 2-3 years later, when he was 8 years old, he was become a good reader and surrounded by the book all over the day.
5- He started Amazon as a book store
In 1994, Jeff Bezos started Amazon as an online book store and now he turned it into the world's largest internet sales company. The name Amazon is based on the biggest river of the word "Amazon" in South America. In starting days Amazon only sold some limited items like computer software, books, compact discs, videos, and some of the computer hardware.
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6- Bezos holds a large investment in a Google
We all know about Google, the most used search engine in the world. In 1998, when Jeff turned his online book store into an online sales company, he invested $250,000 in Google shares, which was a huge amount of investment at that time. If we take the estimated worth of that share which was purchased by Jeff, it's costs something nearby $3 billion at present.
7- Bezos owns the Washington Post
In 2013, Bezos purchased the newspaper publication "Washington Post" for $250 million. Washington Post is a daily newspaper of Washington, D.C. The headquarters is located in Street NW Washington, D.C, U.S. Washington Post was founded in 1877, and the founder was Stilson Hutchins.
8- Want to colonize the solar system
Like Elon Musk, Bezos has the same dream to colonize the solar system, that why he founded Blue Origin on 8 September 2000. Blue Origin was an American private invested aerospace company, which was a start-up aiming to make easy space travel to everyone. The headquarters is located in Kent Washington, the U.S and the current CEO of Blue Origin was "Bob Smith".
9- Jeff played a role in a Star Trek movie
Bezos is a "Trekkie" and has a cameo role in 2016 "Star Trek Beyond". This movie was released in 2016.
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