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Jeff Bezos has left Amazon's leadership after founding the company more than a quarter of a century ago with his ex-wife.
A time in which he has managed to become
the richest man in the world
, star in a notorious divorce with torrid messages in between and buy a monstrous yacht.
The fact that
Bezos
has left the front line at Amazon does not mean his end as a media star:
his long-awaited trip to space in a couple of weeks
and his investments in artificial meat companies make him the center of headlines every other day. day too.
Although rivers of ink have flowed over him, the biography of the greatest fortune in the world reveals a series of
fascinating moments and anecdotes
that help to understand his personality and his strange character.
His biological father was a circus performer
The Amazon founder's last name Bezos
corresponds to that of his adoptive father
, Mike Bezos, a Cuban immigrant who married his mother when Jeff was a child.
His biological father was a circus performer
specializing in numbers with a unicycle
named Ted Jorgensen.
According to the biography of Jeff Bezos published by Brad Stone, Jorgensen never learned that he was Jeff's biological father and father and son had no contact until the founder of Amazon was a grown man.
When they finally met, Bezos said "I
don't hold any grudges against him
" and the two had a cordial relationship until his death in 2015.
He worked at a McDonalds
Like many young Americans, Jeff Bezos had his first work experience
working in the summer at McDonalds
when he was still in high school.
However, a year later, he started his first company together with his teenage girlfriend.
It was a summer camp with reinforcement classes called the
Dream Institute
.
The experience was moderately successful with an income of $ 3,600:
6 students who paid $ 600 per head
.
He was vice president at WallStreet
After graduating from Princeton University with a degree in computer science and another in electrical engineering, Bezos got his
first jobs at WallStreet
.
There Bezos went on to become the
youngest
Vice President
of DE Shaw, a Manhattan investment firm in 1990. However, four years later he would step down from his management position to set up Amazon from his home garage.
He held his first business meetings in a bookstore
The hackneyed Silicon Valley cliché is a reality in the case of Amazon.
It all started in the garage of the house that he shared with his then wife MacKenzie in precarious space conditions but with a significant initial capital resulting from
a loan from his adoptive father and his savings as a manager
on Wall Street.
Amazon's startups were chaotic and marked by sloppy conditions.
The website started thanks to the collaboration of
300 friends and acquaintances
of the couple who
acted
as
beta testers
to make sure that everything worked well on the page.
A time when space was scarce in the garage (where Bezos, his wife and several programmers were) which forced Jeff to hold his first
business meetings in a Barnes And Noble
(a chain of bookstores in the style of La Casa del Book) close to your home.
MacKenzie's involvement was such during the first days that during her recent divorce she received
25% of the Amazon shares
owned by the couple.
A juicy portion of the company that is equivalent to 38,000 million dollars.
Think of the human being "inherently lazy"
Jeff Bezos is an anthropological pessimist.
According to the New York Times, the founder of Amazon thinks that the human being is
"inherently lazy
.
"
The subordinates close to the hitherto CEO of Amazon were surprised by his reflections on the human being.
"He said that the nature of the human being is to spend as little energy as possible to get what we want or need," recalls one of them.
In fact, his biographer, Brad Stone, draws an even more stark portrait.
"Treat employees like disposable resources regardless of their contributions," he says.
Likewise, he points out that some of his employees
draw a portrait of Bezos as that of a psychopath
unable to empathize with his peers.
Obsessed with milk, like Fidel Castro
What do Jeff Bezos and Fidel Castro have in common beyond the fact that they both have a Spanish surname?
The obsession with milk
.
Like the late Cuban leader, Jeff Bezos has a particular fixation on cow's milk.
A public and notorious devotion since 1999 when Wired magazine recounted how Bezos' spectacular security team made
a military deployment to a Florida supermarket to buy a gallon (3.7 liters) of milk
.
Years later, in 2006, Jeff Bezos even published milk reviews on Amazon.
One of the few products that Bezos bothered to write a review on.
"I like milk so much that I've been drinking it since the day I was born," he says.
However, at the end of 2020 to finally
invest millions in NotMilk
, a company specialized in making
artificial milk
made from chicory root fiber, pineapple juice, cabbage juice and coconut oil that, according to the company itself and the reviews on the Internet, accurately mimics the taste of cow's milk.
Lover of eccentricities
Besides being the richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos is a lover of eccentricities.
His biography is one that could be summarized as an anecdote that reveals the character of the character: he has
such a large yacht (with a maintenance of 60 million dollars a year
) that he needs another support yacht for support and supplies, he He has photographed
eating iguana, cockroach and spider
and will travel to space thanks to his Blue Orgin rocket company in the company of his brother.
A space flight that has caused more than 150,000 people to sign an online petition requesting that the founder of Amazon not be allowed to return to earth.
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