Bezos Born: Amazon's Future Founder
He drove across the country to Seattle typing the Amazon business plan on a laptop while his wife drove. It was 1994; he'd left a hedge fund job on a Friday. He started selling books from his garage. Amazon went public in 1997 at $18 a share. The stock hit $3,500 in 2020. Bezos became the first person to have a net worth over $200 billion. He stepped down as CEO in 2021 and flew to space on his own rocket eleven days later. The company he built delivers 2.5 billion packages a year.
January 12, 1964
62 years ago
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