It was in that firm that Bezos met MacKenzie Tuttle whom he married in 1993. He worked at Wall Street and in 1990 he became a senior vice-president at the investment firm DE Shaw. He signed up six students, each of whom was charged $600.īezos developed a love for computers and graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with degrees in electrical engineering and computer science. When he was still at high school, Bezos launched his first business Dream Institute - a 10-day summer camp for children. His summer vacations were spent on his grandfather’s cattle farm where he took part in cleaning, plumbing and repairing windmills.

Forbes magazine estimates the current net worth of Jeff Bezos at a $111.2 billion - which is greater than the GDP of Iceland, Afghanistan and Costa Rica combined.(Illustration: Rushikesh Gophane) So he converted his family garage into a laboratory, where he spent time playing with electrical and mechanical equipment. As a child, Jeff was keen to learn how things worked. However, his parents separated soon after and his mother married Mike Bezos, a Cuban immigrant, which is how Jeff got the present surname. Born on January 12, 1964, in New Mexico, USA, to Jacklyn Gise Jorgensen and Ted Jorgensen, the boy was named Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen.

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