Jeff Bezos' incredible transformation: from selling books to dominating the world

Jeff Bezos' incredible transformation: from selling books to dominating the world


    For years, the name Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, owner of the Washington Post and pioneer of civil space travel, was associated with the concept "the richest man in the world", although lately he has been overtaken by another of the planet's most successful entrepreneurs, Elon Musk, with whom he also competes in a particular space race to return to the Moon.

    But despite losing this honor, Bezos is still immensely rich and has a heritage that surpasses the wealth of many countries of the world. Few could think that laughing kid could go that far.

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    Bezos was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1964, the son of a marriage that separated shortly after his birth. When Bezos was four years old, his mother, Jacklyn Gise Jorgensen, married Cuban Mike Bezos, who despite not being his biological father has always acted as such throughout Jeff's life.

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    Bezos always stood out for his intelligence and from a very young age he had a lot of interest in how things worked, so he ended up enrolling at Princeton University, where he graduated in 1986 in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.

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    Life took him to Wall Street, where he embarked on a successful career in banking and finance, becoming the youngest vice President of the D.E. Shaw investment firm in 1990.

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    But, even though he could have worked his whole life in New York and made a lot of money on Wall Street, in 1994 he decided to turn his life around. He leaves work and moves to Seattle to set up his own e-commerce company, a sector where he sees a lot of the future.

    That's the origin of Amazon.com, which is then just an online book store and no one expects it to become what it is today. After a period of testing, the company began its activities in 1995 and is a brutal success, much more than Bezos expected, who becomes the fashionable man and stars a multitude of reports in magazines and newspapers around the world.

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    La increíble transformación de Jeff Bezos: de vender libros a dominar el mundo

    A little before all this, Bezos knows who would become his wife, MacKenzie Tuttle, who worked with him at D.E. Shaw. They get married in 1993. MacKenzie is part of Amazon's initial alignment, as it designs part of its business plan and becomes the company's first accountant. And although she continued to support the company for years, in 2005 she began a career as a writer that has continued to this day.

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    Bezos becomes one of the first faces of the image of success on the Internet, contributing to inflating to astronomical levels the value of the new companies that are founded on the newly-born web. Many of them a real bluff.

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    Although at first there will be many doubts about Amazon's continuity, the company not only becomes the absolute leader of e-commerce worldwide, but quickly begins to sell much more than books, expanding its offer to music, clothing, electronic products, etc.

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    Since then Amazon has become one of the most powerful companies on the Internet, a producer of cinema, electronic products and a thousand other things, a success that has also been the subject of much criticism due to the working conditions that its employees have suffered in many countries of the world.

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    But Bezos' business has gone far beyond Amazon. Among the most outstanding business adventures of the tycoon are the acquisition in 2013 of the Washington Post, one of the most important newspapers in the world, or the foundation of Blue origin, his aerospace company, which took him, his brother and several more people into space last year.

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    Personally, after 25 years of marriage and having had four children together, Bezos divorced his wife, MacKenzie, in 2019, resulting in a decrease in the size of his immense wealth. Soon after, the press explained the possible reasons for this separation: Bezos' extramarital relationship with television presenter Lauren Sanchez, with whom he is currently continuing and with which he seems to be having quite a good time, as we saw in the photos he himself hung on his Instagram account on the occasion of the change of year.

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    Jeff Bezos' training.

    The couple change has also brought an impressive physical change in Jeff Bezos, which was especially commented on last Christmas, which the mogul spent on the Caribbean island of Saint Barts. Bezos displayed an impressive guy and everyone wondered what was going on and how he had achieved it.

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    The investigations led to Wesley Okerson, a physical trainer who has in the past worked with personalities such as Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, Gerard Butler, Sacha Baron Cohen or Fisher Island, and who knows how to get very quick and visible results with people who have very little time to exercise.

    Bad languages also speak that Bezos may be pulling a checkbook to apply new generation anti-aging treatments that are still inaccessible to the rest of humanity and that would allow him to reduce his biological age. Obviously the latter is not proven, but they are common among the rich of Silicon Valley.

    However, what is clear is that Bezos faces 2022 with an absolutely fit body and more considering that he is already 57 years old.

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