Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on January 12, 1964, the son of Jacklyn (née Gise) and Theodore Jorgensen. At the time of Jeffrey's birth, his mother was a 17-year-old high school student

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Early career
After Bezos graduated from college in 1986, he was offered jobs at Intel, Bell Labs, and Andersen Consulting, among others. He first worked at Fitel, a fintech telecommunications start-up, where he was tasked with building a

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Journalist Nellie Bowles of The New York Times has described the public personaand personality of Bezos as that of "a brilliant but mysterious and coldblooded corporate titan". During the 1990s, Bezos earned a reputation for relentlessly pushing Amazon forward, often at

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Bezos first became a millionaire in 1997 after raising $54 million through Amazon's initial public offering (IPO). He was first included on the Forbes World's Billionaires list in 1999 with a registered net worthof $10.1 billion. His net worth decreased to $6.1 billion a year later, a

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In 1992, Bezos was working for D. E. Shaw in Manhattan when he met novelist MacKenzie Tuttle, who was a research associate at the firm; the couple married a year later. In 1994, they moved across the country to Seattle, Washington, where Bezos founded Amazon.

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According to public campaign finance records, Bezos supported the electoral campaigns of Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell,

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• In 1999, Bezos received his first major award when Time named him Person of the Year.
• In 2008, he was selected by U.S. News & World Reportas

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