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====== Jeff Bezos ======

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**Jeff Preston Bezos** is an American technology entrepreneur. He is the founder of [[Amazon]].

===== History =====

Bezos was born as Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen on January 12, 1964 in [[united_states:new_mexico:Albuquerque]], [[united_states:New Mexico]].((//Jeff Bezos Biography.// (2013, September 30). Academy of Achievement. https://web.archive.org/web/20161110000919/http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/bez0bio-1))

Bezos participated in the 1998 class of the [[World Economic Forum]]'s [[world_economic_forum:Global Leaders for Tomorrow]] program.((//Class of 1998.// World Economic Forum. Retrieved January 11, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20140914230101/http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GLT_ClassOf1998.pdf
)) He purchased the [[Washington Post]] in August 2013 for $250 million.((//Amazon founder buys Washington Post.// (2013, August 6). SBS News. http://archive.today/2023.03.17-071817/https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/amazon-founder-buys-washington-post/d85bveexp)) 

===== Family =====

Bezos is the grandson of [[Lawrence Preston Gise]], one of the first employees of the [[Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency]] (DARPA).((Umoh, R. (2017, November 17). //Jeff Bezos says he learned this critical business skill while visiting his grandfather as a child.// CNBC. http://archive.today/2023.03.17-061212/https://arthritis.ca/about-us/partners/community/nova-scotia-en/pfizer)) ((O’Mara, M. (2018, October 26). //Opinion | Silicon Valley Can’t Escape the Business of War.// The New York Times. http://archive.today/2023.02.12-045004/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/opinion/amazon-bezos-pentagon-hq2.html))

===== External links =====

  * [[https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jeffrey_Bezos|SourceWatch]]
  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos|Wikipedia]]
  * [[https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Jeff_Bezos|Wikispooks]]