1. 1964 2019 Launches Amazon Kindle Found aerospace company Blue Origin
2007
Found aerospace company Blue Origin
Secures contract with CIA
2000
2013
Founds Amazon as an online bookstore
Purchases The Washington Post
1994
2013
Hired as product manager at Bankers Trust
World's best-performing CEO (Harvard Business Review)
1988
2014
Jeffrey Preston Bezos is born
Graduates from high school as valedictorian
Diversifies Amazon's product range
His 55th birthday
Jan 12, 1964
1982
1998
Jan 12, 2019
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1986
2013
Electrical engineering & computer science degrees from Princeton
Amazon becomes world's largest online shopping retailer
1978
1997
2017
Enrols at Miami Palmetto High School
Takes Amazon public with IPO
Becomes world's wealthiest person
1993
2008
Marries novelist MacKenzie Tuttle
Honorary doctorate from Carnegie Mellon Univ.
1999
Named Person of the Year by Time magazine
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