Oct 13 2010
Jeff Bezos
Founder, President, CEO & Chairman of the Board of Amazon.com
Jeff Bezos is the brains behind Amazon, that now sells more than $10 billion a year of goods, profitably, and its technology will influence the changes to business and media that will come next. Intrigued by the amazing growth in use of the Internet, he created a business model that leveraged the Internet’s unique ability to deliver huge amounts of information rapidly and efficiently. Time magazine named him Man of the Year in 1999.
“If the Internet was the new rock and roll, Jeff Bezos…was its Elvis … [Today he’s] the ultimate dotcom survivor” BBCNews.com
Jeffrey Preston “Jeff” Bezos, a Tau Beta Pi graduate of Princeton University, worked as a financial analyst for D. E. Shaw & Co. before founding Amazon in 1994. His bookstore quickly expanded into dozens of product categories, forcing the world’s biggest retailers to rethink their business models, and ultimately changing the way people shop. From 1990 to 1994, Bezos worked for D.E. Shaw & Co where he helped build one of the most technically sophisticated quantitative hedge funds on Wall Street. Outside of his work with Amazon, he recently founded Blue Origin, a space-flight startup.[/expand]
Selected by U.S. News & World Report as one of America’s Best Leaders in 2008, Jeff Bezos is one of the few early Web CEOs who still runs the company he founded. He didn’t invent online shopping, but he almost single-handedly turned it into a multi-billion-dollar enterprise. He provides a deep prospective into the importance to accessing all kinds of information. He offers his unique perspective on how he defined online shopping and rewrote the rules of commerce, ushering in a new era in business.[/expand]
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