Jeff is 37 years old He attend high Palmetto and graduated valedictorian He dreamt of being an astronaut or physicist He then went to Princeton where he studied electrical engineering and computer science He led the development of computer systems at Bankers Trust in New York

When Jeff saw the internet was growing at 2,300 percent each year he decided he was going to sell on the Web He wanted to provide “top-notch” customer service “ obsess about customers not competitors” His parents helped him get started by giving him $300,000 in 1994

In 1995 Amazon.com was officially open to all After 30 days of being open, people from around the world were sending in orders By 1998 Amazon.com was the worlds biggest bookstore

*More than 60,000 other websites link to Amazon *Sales for 2000 were $1.92 billion