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Jeff Bezos

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  • Jeff Bezos read a single statistic in the spring of 1994. Web usage, it said, was growing at 2,300 percent a year. Within months he had walked away from a senior job on Wall Street to sell books over the internet. He warned many of his early investors that there was a 70 percent chance the venture would fail or go bankrupt. That gamble became Amazon, a company that grew into the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing business. This documentary asks where a teenage mother's son from Albuquerque found that nerve. It asks what the company demanded from the people who worked inside it. It asks why its founder also built a rocket company, bought a newspaper, and became a target for praise and anger at the same time.

  • Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen was born on the 12th of January 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His mother, Jacklyn, was a 17-year-old high school student. His father, Ted, a Danish American unicyclist, was 19. Jacklyn finished high school despite difficult conditions, then attended night school and brought her baby to class. By the age of two, Jeff was enrolled at a Montessori school in Albuquerque.

    In June 1965, when Jeff was 17 months old, Jacklyn filed for divorce. Ted struggled with alcohol and with money, and she went to live with her parents. In April 1968 she married Miguel "Mike" Bezos, a Cuban immigrant. Shortly after the wedding, Mike adopted four-year-old Jeff, and the boy's surname was legally changed from Jorgensen to Bezos. The new family asked Ted to stop contact, and he agreed.

    After Mike earned his degree at the University of New Mexico, the family moved to Houston, where he began work as an engineer for Exxon. Jeff attended River Oaks Elementary School there from fourth to sixth grade. His maternal grandfather, Lawrence Preston Gise, was a regional director of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in Albuquerque. Gise retired early to a family ranch near Cotulla, Texas, and Jeff spent many summers there. He later bought the ranch and expanded it from 25000 acres to 160000 acres. As a boy he also rigged an electric alarm to keep his younger half-siblings out of his room.

    The family then settled in Miami, Florida, and Jeff attended Miami Palmetto High School. During those years he worked the breakfast shift at McDonald's as a short-order line cook. He also attended the Student Science Training Program at the University of Florida. In 1982 he graduated as valedictorian, a National Merit Scholar, and a Silver Knight Award winner. His graduation speech described a future in which humanity moved heavy industry and large populations into space. A local newspaper quoted his hope of preserving Earth as "a huge national park".

    At Princeton University he first studied physics, then switched to electrical engineering and computer science. In a 2018 talk at the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., he said that a classmate named Yasantha Rajakarunanayake had beaten him at solving a mathematical problem. That defeat ended his dream of becoming a theoretical physicist. Bezos belonged to the Quadrangle Club, one of Princeton's 11 eating clubs. He also served as president of the campus chapter of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space. With a 4.2 GPA, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi and graduated summa cum laude in 1986. In 2016 he would give a $250,000 prize to that same space-minded student group.

  • Intel, Bell Labs and Andersen Consulting were among the employers that offered Bezos jobs when he left Princeton in 1986. He chose Fitel, a financial technology telecommunications start-up, where he was asked to build a network for international trade. There he rose to head of development and director of customer service. From 1988 to 1990 he worked as a product manager at Bankers Trust. Then he joined D. E. Shaw & Co, a newly created hedge fund that leaned heavily on mathematical modeling. He became its fourth senior vice president before he turned 30.

    Bezos later described a mental tool he called the regret-minimization framework, which he used at D. E. Shaw and again in Amazon's early years. In his words: "When I'm 80, am I going to regret leaving Wall Street? No. Will I regret missing the beginning of the Internet? Yes."

    On the 5th of July 1994, he and his then-wife, MacKenzie Scott, founded Amazon in a rented garage in Bellevue, Washington. They had drafted the business plan on a drive from New York City to Seattle. MacKenzie handled bookkeeping, financial administration and some early freight negotiations. Bezos reportedly weighed basing the company on a Native American reservation near San Francisco, partly for tax reasons. He first called the business Cadabra, then renamed it after the Amazon River. The name began with the first letter of the alphabet, which mattered when website listings were alphabetized. It also suited his hope of building the world's largest online bookstore. His parents invested an estimated $300,000.

    Three years after the founding, in 1997, Bezos took Amazon public. The offering raised $54 million for the company and made him a millionaire. Reports in Fortune and Barron's were critical, but he insisted that internet growth would overtake larger book retailers such as Borders and Barnes & Noble.

    In 1998 he added music and video, and by year's end the shelves held a variety of other consumer goods. He spent money from the 1997 offering on smaller internet companies. These included a majority stake in Pets.com in 1999 and a portion of Kozmo.com, bought for $60 million. Both failed after the dot-com bubble collapsed in 2000. By the end of that year Bezos had borrowed $2 billion from banks, while Amazon's cash had dipped to only $350 million.

    Amazon Web Services launched in 2002 under his leadership. Later that year revenues stagnated and the company nearly went bankrupt, so he closed distribution centers and laid off 14 percent of the workforce. In 2003 Amazon turned a profit of $35 million.

    In November 2007 came the Kindle. A 2008 Time profile reported that Bezos wanted readers to reach a "flow state" like the one video games produce. In 2013 he secured a $600 million cloud computing contract with the Central Intelligence Agency, and Amazon was recognized as the largest online shopping retailer in the world that October.

    On the 5th of July 2021, he stepped down as chief executive and became executive chairman, with Andy Jassy of Amazon Web Services taking over. By December 2024 he told a DealBook Summit audience that he was giving 95 percent of his time to artificial intelligence initiatives at Amazon.

  • "Get Big Fast" was the mantra Bezos coined to explain why Amazon had to scale until it dominated its market. He preferred to pour profits back into the business rather than pay dividends. In the 1990s and early 2000s he tried to quantify nearly everything, even listing employees on spreadsheets and basing executive decisions on data.

    Some of his habits became corporate lore. He does not schedule early morning meetings, and he enforces a two-pizza rule, meaning a meeting should be small enough for two pizzas to feed everyone. Instead of slide decks, senior staff present six-page narratives. A 2018 report said he met investors for just six hours a year. Since 1998 he has written a shareholder letter each year, usually returning to five principles. They are to focus on customers rather than competitors, take risks for market leadership, support staff morale, build a company culture, and empower people. Customers can write to jeff@amazon.com. He does not reply, but he forwards some messages to executives with a single question mark in the subject line. He prefers the phrase "work-life harmony" to "work-life balance", arguing that balance implies choosing one over the other. Journalist Walt Mossberg labeled the idea that people who cannot tolerate criticism should not attempt anything new as "The Bezos Principle".

    A harsher portrait comes from journalist Brad Stone, whose book The Everything Store recorded remarks attributed to Bezos such as "I'm sorry, did I take my stupid pills today?" and "Are you lazy or just incompetent?" Stone also reported a third line, "Why are you ruining my life?" According to the same account, Bezos set Amazon teams against one another. He once refused to give employees city bus passes, hoping to discourage them from leaving the office.

    In May 2014 the International Trade Union Confederation named Bezos the "World's Worst Boss". Its general secretary, Sharan Burrow, said he represented the "inhumanity of employers who are promoting the North American corporate model".

    Pressure peaked in 2018. After a Quartz report highlighted his fortune, Amazon workers in Poland, Germany and Spain held demonstrations and strikes over pay and conditions. In September 2018, Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies Act, whose acronym spelled out Bezos's surname. The non-profit New Food Economy had found that one third of Amazon workers in Arizona relied on food stamps, as did one tenth of those in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Sanders asked: "Instead of attempting to explore Mars or go to the moon, how about Jeff Bezos pays his workers a living wage?" Amazon replied that it had created 130,000 jobs in 2017. It called a median salary figure of $28,446 "misleading" because the figure included part-time workers. On the 2nd of October 2018, Bezos announced a company-wide raise that lifted American minimum-wage workers to $15 per hour, and Sanders applauded.

    A year later, Harvard Business Review left Bezos out of its top 100 chief executives. That list weighed environmental, social and governance scores, and the magazine cited Amazon's low marks on working conditions, data security and antitrust issues. The same publication had ranked him the best performer for several years running.

  • In September 2000, Bezos founded Blue Origin as a human spaceflight start-up. The ambition was old. In a 1982 Miami Herald interview, the 18-year-old had imagined hotels, amusement parks and colonies for people in orbit. He argued that moving beyond Earth would spare it from overuse and resource depletion. Rob Meyerson served as the company's first president, leading it from 2003 to 2017.

    In March 2003, Bezos was aboard a helicopter that crashed in West Texas while surveying land to buy for Blue Origin. The pilot, Charles "Cheater" Bella, Amazon lawyer Elizabeth Korrell and rancher Ty Holland were also aboard. All four survived, and Bezos was released from a local hospital the same day with minor injuries.

    Blue Origin kept a low profile until 2006, when it bought a large tract of land in West Texas for a launch and test site. In September 2011, an uncrewed prototype crashed during a short-hop test flight. Press coverage treated it as a setback but also noted how far the company had come. After the crash, Bezos began wearing his "lucky" Texas cowboy boots to every rocket launch. In May 2013 he met Virgin Galactic chairman Richard Branson to discuss commercial spaceflight, and commentators have grouped him with Branson and Elon Musk as billionaires who put space first.

    Bezos also used his personal investment firm, Bezos Expeditions, to fund a 2013 recovery of two Saturn V first-stage F-1 engines from the Atlantic Ocean floor. They were positively identified as belonging to the S-1C stage of Apollo 11, flown in July 1969. The engines now stand on display at the Seattle Museum of Flight.

    In November 2015, Blue Origin's New Shepard rocketed to its planned test altitude of 329,839 feet, or 100.5 kilometers. It then made a vertical landing back at the West Texas launch site. In 2016 Bezos let select journalists tour and photograph the facility. From that year he sold $1 billion of Amazon stock annually to fund the effort. In December 2017, New Shepard flew and landed with dummy passengers, and the company built six vehicles to support testing and commercial operations. In May 2018 Bezos said the main goal was to protect Earth's natural resources by making humans a multi-planetary species. By July 2018 he had priced commercial tickets from $200,000 to $300,000 per person.

    On the 20th of July 2021, Bezos himself flew on the NS-16 mission, alongside his half-brother Mark Bezos, Wally Funk and Oliver Daemen. The launch came nine days after Branson flew aboard Virgin Galactic's Unity 22. The suborbital flight lasted over 10 minutes and reached a peak altitude of 66.5 miles.

  • On the 5th of August 2013, Bezos announced that he was buying The Washington Post for $250 million in cash. His friend Don Graham had suggested the idea. Bezos set up a limited liability company, Nash Holdings, to own the paper, and the sale closed on the 1st of October 2013. In March 2014 he made his first notable change by lifting the online paywall for subscribers of several local newspapers in Texas, Hawaii and Minnesota. In January 2016 he set out to turn the paper into a media and technology company by rebuilding its digital, mobile and analytics systems. After a surge in readership that year, the paper was profitable for the first time since the purchase.

    Criticism followed. In 2018 more than 400 Post employees signed an open letter that criticized low wages and benefits. They demanded "Fair wages; fair benefits for retirement, family leave and health care; and a fair amount of job security". About 750 employees staged a brief strike in December 2023 over layoff plans. Bezos and the editorial board have denied that he unfairly controls the paper's coverage, and he maintains that it is independent.

    In 2024 Bezos blocked the editorial board from endorsing Kamala Harris for president. Former editor Marty Baron called the move "disturbing spinelessness at an institution famed for courage". Editor-at-large Robert Kagan and columnist Michele Norris resigned. Editor David Maraniss said the paper was "dying in darkness". More than 250,000 people, about ten percent of subscribers, cancelled, and three editorial board members left.

    In January 2025, editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after the Post declined to run her satirical cartoon about American billionaires and President Donald Trump. She called the decision "dangerous for a free press". In February 2025, Bezos announced that the opinion section would publish only views supporting "personal liberties" and "free markets". Opinion editor David Shipley resigned after trying to persuade him to reconsider. Within two days, over 75,000 digital subscribers had reportedly cancelled.

    Bezos's relationship with Trump has swung. After the 2016 election he was invited to join the Defense Innovation Advisory Board, yet Trump repeatedly attacked him on Twitter. Axios reported that in July 2024 the two spoke privately, months before the endorsement decision. After Trump's November victory, Bezos dined with Trump and Elon Musk at Mar-a-Lago, and Amazon gave $1 million to the inauguration. Bezos had earlier given to politicians in both parties, including Democratic senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell and Republican Spencer Abraham. In 2012 he and MacKenzie contributed $2.5 million to a group backing Washington's same-sex marriage law. In November 2021 he gave $100 million to the Obama Foundation. Because of his reach across industry, politics and media, critics have described him as an oligarch.

  • In 1992, while working for D. E. Shaw in Manhattan, Bezos met novelist MacKenzie Tuttle, then a research associate at the firm. They married a year later. Together they had four children: three sons and a daughter adopted from China.

    A lighter thread runs through his life: Star Trek. In 2011 he told technical advisor Greg Hart that the aim of the project that became Alexa was to build "the Star Trek computer". His family company, Zefram LLC, is named for the series' Zefram Cochrane. After lobbying Paramount, he appeared in the 2016 film Star Trek Beyond as a Starfleet official with one line for a distressed alien: "Speak Normally." He joined the cast and crew at a San Diego Comic-Con screening.

    In January 2019, Bezos and MacKenzie released a joint statement announcing their divorce after 25 years together. The National Enquirer then reported his affair with media personality Lauren Sánchez. On the 7th of February 2019, Bezos published an online essay accusing American Media owner David Pecker of "extortion and blackmail". He said Pecker had threatened to publish intimate photos if he did not stop investigating how his texts and photos reached the tabloid. Media reports blamed Sánchez's brother Michael as the source, though Bezos speculated that the Saudi Arabian government might be responsible. The divorce was finalized on the 4th of April 2019. MacKenzie received 25 percent of the couple's Amazon shares, then worth about $36 billion, and Bezos kept all of the voting rights.

    The Saudi connection did not end there. In March 2018, Bezos met Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman in Seattle to discuss investment. In March 2019, his security consultant, Gavin de Becker, accused the Saudi government of hacking Bezos's phone, linking it to Post coverage of the murder of Post writer Jamal Khashoggi. Forensic analysis by FTI Consulting called it "highly probable" that a malicious file hidden in a video, sent over WhatsApp from the crown prince's personal account on the 1st of May 2018, was the means. Saudi Arabia denies the claim.

    Journalist Nellie Bowles of The New York Times has described his public persona as "a brilliant but mysterious and coldblooded corporate titan". In the early 2000s many saw him as geeky, and Alan Deutschman described him as "talking in lists". By the early 2010s he wore tailored clothing, weight trained, followed a strict diet and spent more freely. Since 2017, Kyle Mooney and Steve Carell have played him on Saturday Night Live as a domineering figure, and he has been parodied as an enterprising supervillain.

    Bezos and Sánchez became engaged in May 2023. They married in Venice on the 27th of June 2025, and the ceremony drew mainstream media attention and various celebrities.

  • Forbes first listed Bezos among the world's billionaires in 1999, with an estimated $10.1 billion that placed him 19th in the world. By 2001 that figure had fallen to $2.0 billion. He regained ground as Amazon recovered, and by 2015 he was worth an estimated $50.3 billion, entering the world's top ten. On the 10th of October 2017 he made an estimated $6.24 billion in five minutes, slightly less than the annual gross domestic product of Kyrgyzstan.

    His net worth passed $100 billion on the 24th of November 2017, and on the 6th of March 2018 Forbes named him the world's wealthiest person at $112 billion. By July 2018 several outlets called him the richest man in modern history. ProPublica found that from 2014 to 2018 he paid $973 million in taxes on $99 billion in wealth growth and $4.22 billion in reported income. During the COVID-19 pandemic, his fortune reportedly grew by $24 billion as locked-down households shopped on Amazon. Estimates published in 2026 put his net worth around $284.1 billion.

    He has spent heavily. In June 2019 he bought three adjoining Manhattan apartments overlooking Madison Square Park for $80 million. In February 2020 he paid David Geffen $165 million for the Warner Estate, a record for a Los Angeles-area home. In 2022 he added a 14-acre Maui estate on La Perouse Bay for $78 million. He also owns the Y721, a superyacht estimated to cost more than $500,000,000.

    Some of his best bets were quieter. In 1998 he invested $250,000 in Google, which became 3.3 million shares worth about $3.1 billion in 2017. Through Bezos Expeditions he also backed health companies such as Unity Biotechnology, GRAIL, Juno Therapeutics and Zocdoc. In September 2021 he co-founded Altos Labs with Yuri Milner, aiming to use cellular reprogramming for longevity therapies. It recruited scientists including Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte, Steve Horvath and Nobel Prize winner Shinya Yamanaka. It emerged from stealth on the 19th of January 2022 with $3 billion in starting capital and Hal Barron leading its executive team.

    Giving came later. In September 2018, Business Insider noted that Bezos was the only one of the five richest people who had not signed the Giving Pledge. In June 2017 he had asked Twitter for philanthropy ideas, when his lifetime giving was estimated at $100 million. In September 2018 he committed about $2 billion to two efforts: the Day 1 Families Fund for homeless families and the Day 1 Academies Fund for preschools serving low-income communities. In February 2020 he pledged $10 billion to the Bezos Earth Fund. That November he announced $791 million for groups including the Environmental Defense Fund and The Nature Conservancy. In July 2021 he created the Courage and Civility Award, giving $100 million each to Van Jones and José Andrés. Dolly Parton received $100 million the next year for her work on children's literacy. In March 2024, actress Eva Longoria and retired admiral Bill McRaven each received $50 million.

    In November 2025 he announced a new venture, Project Prometheus, co-founded with former Google executive Vik Bajaj. It plans to apply artificial intelligence to engineering and the manufacture of computers, spacecraft and automobiles.

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Common questions

Who is Jeff Bezos?

Jeff Bezos is an American businessman who founded Amazon in 1994 and later served as its chief executive. He also founded the spaceflight company Blue Origin and bought The Washington Post.

When and how did Jeff Bezos start Amazon?

Jeff Bezos founded Amazon on the 5th of July 1994 in a rented garage in Bellevue, Washington. He had written the business plan on a drive from New York City to Seattle, and the company began as an online bookstore.

Why did Jeff Bezos name the company Amazon?

Jeff Bezos renamed his company Cadabra to Amazon after the Amazon River. The name starts with the letter A, which placed it early in alphabetized website listings, and it suited his goal of building the world's largest online bookstore.

What is Blue Origin and what did Jeff Bezos do with it?

Blue Origin is a human spaceflight company Jeff Bezos founded in September 2000. On the 20th of July 2021 he flew on its NS-16 mission, which lasted over 10 minutes and reached 66.5 miles.

When did Jeff Bezos buy The Washington Post and why was it controversial?

Jeff Bezos announced the purchase of The Washington Post for $250 million on the 5th of August 2013. In 2024 he blocked the editorial board from endorsing Kamala Harris, and more than 250,000 subscribers cancelled.

What happened in the Jeff Bezos divorce from MacKenzie Scott?

Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie announced their divorce in January 2019 after 25 years together, and it was finalized on the 4th of April 2019. MacKenzie received 25 percent of the Amazon shares, and Bezos kept all the voting rights.

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