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	Jeff Bezos
		Jeffrey's maternal grandfather was a regional director of the Atomic Energy Commission in Albuquerque.
		Jeffrey was born when his mother was still in her teens, and her marriage to his father lasted little more than a year.
		Jeffrey's stepfather, Mike Bezos, was born in Cuba; he escaped to the United States alone at age 15, and worked his way through the University of Albuquerque.
	www.wapipedia.org /wikipedia/mobiletopic.aspx?cur_title=Jeff_Bezos (1425 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Jeff Bezos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Jeffrey was born when his mother, Jackie Bezos, was still in her teens, and her marriage to his father lasted little more than a year.
		Jeffrey's stepfather, Miguel Bezos, was born in Cuba.
		Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994, and became one of the most prominent dot-com billionaire entrepreneurs.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jeff-Bezos (1385 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Jeff Bezos
		Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is the president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board of Amazon.com.
		Bezos, a Princeton University graduate, worked as a financial analyst for D.E. Shaw before founding Amazon.com in 1994.
		Jeffrey's stepfather, Mike Bezos, was born in Cuba.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Jeff_Bezos (1598 words)

	Jeff Bezos Biography,info
		Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is the founder, president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board of Amazon.com.
		Bezos was born when his mother, Jackie Bezos, was still in her teens, and her marriage to his father lasted little more than a year.
		Bezos's stepfather, Miguel Bezos, was born in Cuba.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Jeff_Bezos (654 words)

	Jeff Bezos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Jeffrey P. Bezos was born in Albuquerque, NewMexico.
		Jeffrey's maternal grandfather was a regional director of the Atomic EnergyCommission in Albuquerque.
		She remarried when Jeffrey was four.Jeffrey's stepfather, Mike Bezos, was born in Cuba ; he escaped to the United States aloneat age 15, and worked his way through the University of Albuquerque.
	www.therfcc.org /jeff-bezos-31998.html (1346 words)

	Jeff Bezos
		Jeffrey P. Bezos byl narozen v Albuquerque, nové Mexiko.
		Jeffreyův nevlastní otec, Mike Bezos, byl narozen v Cuba; on utekl na Spojené státy osamoceně v věku 15, a zpracoval jeho cestu přes univerzitu Albuquerque.
		Jeffrey ukazoval intenzivní a rozmanité vědecké zájmy v raném věku.
	wikipedia.infostar.cz /j/je/jeff_bezos.html (1188 words)

	Online NewsHour: How Amazon.com is changing retailing -- July 7, 1999
		JEFFREY BEZOS: So as a result, what happens is our cash flow is much better than the cash flow that you would see in a place that turns its inventory three times a year, and that's a big advantage in any kind of economic model.
		JEFFREY BEZOS: To put it in the extremes, the category that's most threatened is the strip mall because that's no fun.
		In fact, Jeffrey Bezos has lost, on paper, and made, billions of dollars while we were doing this piece; doesn't seem to change his routine one iota.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/cyberspace/july-dec99/amazon_7-7.html (2292 words)

	Jeff Bezos Biography - Jeffrey
		Jeffrey Preston Bezos was born on January 12th 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
		Bezos and his wife moved to Seattle, where they had access to the book wholesaler Ingram, and to the computer talent Bezos would need for his project.
		From the beginning Bezos told his original investors there was a 70 percent chance they would lose their investment, but his parents still signed on for $300,000.
	www.investingvalue.com /investment-leaders/jeff-bezos/index.htm (681 words)

	Jeffrey P. Bezos
		Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon.com.
		In his late grade school years, Bezos became fascinated with the Infinity Cube, which uses a set of motorized mirrors to let the user stare into "infinity." When his mother said its $20 cost was too expensive, he bought the pieces cheaply and built it himself.
		Bezos and his team spent a year creating their Web site and developing the database programs that they knew they would need.
	www.ie.metu.edu.tr /~sayin/ie/Persons/Bezos/Bezos.html (876 words)

	Human Resources Public (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Bezos, an alumnus of River Oaks Elementary, returned to his alma mater this week to help celebrate the school's 75th anniversary.
		When Bezos was a student, River Oaks was one of very few schools in the city to receive a computer.
		Bezos and Board of Education Trustee Harvin C. Moore share a laugh during a benefit luncheon to raise funds for the Rivers Oaks school library fund.
	www.houstonisd.org /HISDPortal/departments/ContentPage/0,3099,49953492_0_58218963,00.html (541 words)

	Hispanic Magazine Jan/Feb 1999 CoverStory Lord of the Jungle
		In 1994 Bezos quit his job as a hedge fund manager to stake a claim on the wild frontier of Internet retailing, or "e-tailing." He moved to Seattle and started his business in a rented garage with loans from investment bankers, family, friends, and venture capitalists.
		Bezos certainly looks boyish, and with his youthful countenance he brings a decidedly fresh, counterculture approach to his working environment.
		According to his assistant, Kay Dangaard, Bezos was the eldest of three children, born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Mike and Jackie Bezos.
	www.hispaniconline.com /magazine/1999/jan_feb/CoverStory (1600 words)

	Brainboost - Who is the CEO of Amazon.com? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Jeff Bezos, billionaire founder and CEO of Amazon.com, is planning to build a spaceport in Van Horn, Texas with his sights set on the ultimate goal of space colonization..
		Jeffery Peterson Bezos - Founder and CEO of Amazon.Com - CheatHouse.com - -..
		Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, is the most famous son of the e - commerce revolution..
	www.brainboost.com /search.asp?Q=Who+is+the+CEO+of+Amazon.com%3F (1851 words)

	DJC.COM: Amazon’s Bezos still earns $81K, provided by Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
		WASHINGTON (Dow Jones/AP) -- The salary of Amazon.com Inc.'s top executive Jeffrey Bezos remained at $81,840 in 2002 -- a tiny sum in the world of CEO pay -- and he received no other compensation during the year, according to a proxy statement released by the Securities and Exchange Commission Friday.
		The 39-year-old Bezos, who founded the Seattle-based Internet retailer, declined additional compensation last year due to his substantial ownership in the company, which the proxy indicated was about 28 percent.
		Bezos' approximately 108 million Amazon.com shares are valued at about $2.8 billion, based on the company's closing share price of $25.67 Thursday on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
	www.djc.com /news/bu/11143960.html (253 words)

	Jeff Bezos Profile -- Academy of Achievement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 1994, Jeff Bezos was a 30-year-old Vice President of a New York investment firm, newly married, with a secure and prosperous future ahead of him.
		Jeff Bezos was convinced that this global network, primarily the domain of academics and government scientists, could become a vibrant new venue for commerce, with the right product and the right plan.
		Bezos and his investors found their shares in the company worth billions.
	www.achievement.org /autodoc/page/bez0pro-1 (384 words)

	Cyberposium 2000 - Keynote Address - Jeff Bezos - HBS Working Knowledge
		A funny thing happened to Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, as he was about to make his way to Boston to deliver a keynote address at Cyperposium 2000.
		If that's the case, asked Bezos, how do you explain the fact that Amazon and other e-commerce companies are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in their businesses.
		Bezos concluded his comments with some advice for the many aspiring entrepreneurs in the audience, urging them to take advantage of an experience in a best-practices company before setting out on their own — as he had done for nearly five years in New York City before founding Amazon.com.
	hbswk.hbs.edu /item.jhtml?id=1366&t=special_reports&noseek=one (945 words)

	Welcome to The Media Institute Home Page
		Bezos worked at the intersection of computer science and finance, helping build one of the most technically sophisticated quantitative hedge funds on Wall Street for D.E. Shaw and Co. He was involved in the development of computer systems that helps manage more than $250 billion in assets for Bankers Trust Company.
		Bezos, Amazon.com has extended the reach of authors and their ideas to a worldwide audience -- at times over the objections of local governments.
		Bezos in furthering free expression around the globe by honoring him with its Freedom of Speech Award.
	www.mediainstitute.org /banquet2000/profiles_2000.html (659 words)

	TIME.com:1999 Person of the Year, December 27, 1999
		Jeffrey Preston Bezos had that same experience when he first peered into the maze of connected computers called the World Wide Web and realized that the future of retailing was glowing back at him.
		But Bezos' vision of the online retailing universe was so complete, his Amazon.com site so elegant and appealing, that it became from Day One the point of reference for anyone who had anything to sell online.
		There was a time when Bezos could say, "If I had a nickel for every time a potential investor told me this wouldn't work..." and then lapse off into head shaking.
	www.time.com /time/poy/intro.html (970 words)

	Amazing Amazon.com
		Bezos graduated from Princeton University and was the youngest senior vice president in the history of D.E. Shaw investment bank.
		The events that lead Bezos to his business were a statistic that Internet usage was growing at 2,300 percent a year.
		Secondly, Bezos decided to relocate in order to have a profitable location to start the business, small sales tax, and lastly Seattle was a nice place to live (just in general).
	www.radessays.com /link.php?site=re&aff=r2c2&dest=viewpaper.php?request=5497 (204 words)

	Hot Strategy: 'Be Unprofitable for a Long Time'
		But 33-year-old Jeffrey Bezos practically goes out of his way to insist that on-line bookseller Amazon.com has hardly any hope of making a profit.
		Bezos, whose stock rose from $18 to close at $23.50 a share in its first day of trading, this past May, seems by his honesty to have reassured investors that he must really know something.
		Executive editor Jeffrey L. Seglin set out to learn whether Bezos is just being cagey--or if profit is simply an irrelevant yardstick in cyberspace.
	www.inc.com /magazine/19970901/1314.html (586 words)

	Jeffrey P. Bezos
		Bezos, now 35, never realized those high-flying dreams.
		With a brand already recognized by 118 million U.S. adults, Bezos wants Amazon.com to be the place for consumers to find almost anything they want--whether Amazon itself sells the products or simply takes a cut from other merchants selling on its Web site.
		When Bezos started Amazon in his suburban Seattle garage in 1994, he quickly realized the buyer is king on the Web--and set out to build the most customer-centered store anywhere.
	www.businessweek.com /1999/99_39/b3648004.htm (617 words)

	Jeff Bezos: ZoomInfo Business People Information
		Jeffrey Preston Bezos is the son of Miguel "Mike" Bezos, and Jacklyn Gise Bezos.
		Bezos spent many summers on his grandfather's ranch in Cotulla, Texas, where he exercised his hands-on engineering abilities by fixing windmills and doing other such chores ----- By age 16, he could fix windmills, use an arc welder and castrate cattle.
		Bezos served as President of the Company from founding until June 1999 and again from October 2000 to the present.
	www.zoominfo.com /people/bezos_jeff_294829.aspx (2170 words)

	--► marke.at --► Markengeschichte/Markenmythos/Markenhistorie der Marke amazon
		Jeffrey Bezos erkannte das unglaubliche Potential dieses Mediums und wagte den Sprung ins kalte Wasser.
		Jeffrey Bezos ahnte damals noch nichts von halblegalen Musiktauschbörsen, entschied sich aber trotzdem für Bücher.
		Bezos setzte es sich zum Ziel diesen zu übertrumpfen und dadurch zum weltweit größten Buchhändler aufzusteigen.
	www.marke.at /content/knowledgebase/did_you_know/dyk_detail.asp?dykid=14 (611 words)

	GoodHumans Message Boards:Jeffrey P. Bezos - Founder and CEO, Amazon.com - David Harrison Levi - Beverly Hills
		Jeffrey P. Bezos Date of birth: January 12, 1964
		Jeff and Mackenize flew to Texas on Independence Day weekend and picked up a 1988 Chevy Blazer (a gift from Mike Bezos) to make the drive to Seattle, where they would have ready access to the book wholesaler Ingram, and to the pool of computer talent Jeff would need for his enterprise.
		Two years later, the market value of shares in Amazon qwas greater than that of its two biggest retail competitors combined, and Borders was striking a deal for Amazon to handle its Internet traffic.
	www.goodhumans.com /Messages/Jeffrey_p_bezos_founder_and_ceo_amazon_com_david_harrison_levi_beverly_hills__2705?____ghwgnumperpage=2070 (1344 words)

	L'État d'Internet 1999: The amazon.com Phenomena
		Consequently, in April of 1994, while browsing on the Net, Bezos read that the use of the Internet was growing at a rate of 2300 percent per month, he had to get in on the action.
		Jeff Bezos' has been able to use the power of the Internet and offer a selection of books that is fifteen times the size any bookstore.
		To build the winning team, Bezos had to imagine some of the fundamental characteristics needed to succeed in the particular corporate culture that is e-commerce.
	www.lexum.umontreal.ca /cours/internet1999/p4c2.html (6914 words)

	FT.com - Special Report / World Economic Forum 2002
		Amazon.com, the internet retailer that Bezos founded 1996, managed to show its first quarterly profit - a modest $5m - in the final quarter of 2001.
		Synonymous with the dotcom boom, in its six year history Amazon has gone from being the favourite child of the internet and the darling of NASDAQ, to being viewed as an avatar of all that was wrong with all e-business.
		Bezos still had a long way to go to disprove criticism of his business model, but he has at least been able to guide Amazon into a period of greater maturity, where he, and his company will be judged on their ability to achieve traditional business goals.
	specials.ft.com /wef2002/FT3A5ZFO1XC.html (194 words)

	Bezos, Jeff
		jeff bezos founder and ceo of amazon.com is committed to selling his books...
		amazon.com founder and ceo jeff bezos declined to be interviewed for this book, relates spector, a journalist who has written for usa today and upi.
		jim clark jeffrey bezos amazon.com founder and chief executive officer.
	www.celebrityaz.com /238_Bezos_Jeff.html (411 words)

	Amazon.com: Jeff Bezos: King Of Amazon.Com (Techies): Books: Josepha Sherman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Bezos saw the commercial opportunities in an easily accessible Internet and created Amazon.com, one of the first, now most widely recognized dot.com businesses.
		In Jeff Bezos, readers will learn about the young Princeton graduate whose plan for selling books over the Web began literally in his garage and grew to be Amazon.com.
		Bezos (his youth, etc.) as well as information about the beginning of Amazon.com.
	www.amazon.com /Jeff-Bezos-King-Amazon-Com-Techies/dp/076131394X (1394 words)

	JEFF BEZOS, FOUNDER OF AMAZON.COM, HIS LIFE STORY, BIOGRAPHY!
		Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born May 12, 1964) is the president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board of Amazon.com.
		By 1994, the World Wide Web had begun to be known outside the narrow circles of computer science researchers and physicists, but there was no Web commerce to speak of.
		One day that spring, Jeffrey Bezos observed that Web usage was increasing by 2,300 percent a year.
	www.best-discount-gifts.com /life_of_Jeff_Bezos_Amazon.htm (1462 words)

	Jeff Bezos
		Profile of Jeff Bezos in 1999 by the Time magazine.
		Bezos was voted person of the year for 1999 by the magazine.
		Jeff Bezos biography of the famous American internet entrepreneur and founder of the online shopping portal Amazon.com.
	www.bizunited.com /html/Reference/Biographies/Famous_Entrepreneurs/Internet_Entrepreneurs/Jeff_Bezos (130 words)

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