Thursday, January 12, 2017

Jeff Bezos

Photo courtesy of PBS
(Wikipedia) Jeff Bezos (born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen, January 12, 1964) is an American technology entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, which became the world's largest online shopping retailer.
... Bezos was born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen to Jacklyn (née Gise) and Ted Jorgensen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His maternal ancestors were settlers who lived in Texas, and over the generations acquired a 25,000-acre ranch near Cotulla. As of March 2015, Bezos was among the largest landholders in Texas.
Bezos' maternal grandfather was a regional director of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in Albuquerque. He retired early to the ranch, where Bezos spent many summers as a youth, working with him. Continued

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