The King Business Online's Jeff Bezos Named

Who is not familiar with Jeffrey Preston Bezos or better known as Jeff Bezos at the moment? A wealthy businessman is famous thanks to the efforts he started Amazon.com. The online store has made making himself perched in a row the world's richest entrepreneurs. Thanks to hard work, passion, intelligence and perseverance to build business, Amazon.com has become an online-store-which supposedly the most complete worldwide.

Intelligence and perseverance man born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, January 12, 1964 has been seen since he was three years old. At that age, Jeff asked for regular bed instead of a bed in a crib.

But because it is not given regular bed so Jeff dismantle the crib with a screwdriver. In any school, the teachers find it difficult to stop Jeff from the task done. To move to the next task, they must move Jeff by lifting bench was occupied.


Jeff's grandfather, Preston Gise is a manager of western region of the Atomic Energy Commission where he was responsible for the laboratory at Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, and Los Almos. At ten-year-old Jeff, Jeff spent the summer with his grandfather in southwest Texas. Preston to see her grandson is a young scientist like himself first. Then, he helped his grandson make amateur radio Heatkit and help Jeff in collecting various kinds of objects-sometimes-often destructive Bezos parents' home garage. Because, in the garage of that, Jeff has his own laboratory for scientific experiments.

At SMU, Jeff won a competition sponsored by NASA to write a paper on the impact of the absence of gravity on the average age of flies. Later in the summer of 1981, Jeff worked as a cook McDonald's in Miami. This is where he began to recognize the importance of serving the customer.

After graduating high school, Jeff studied at Princeton University. He majored in physics but later he moved faculty to explore the computer so that she graduated with a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. After graduating from college, Jeff worked on Wall Street. He built a network of computers at a company building Fitel. Then Jeff was working as in D.E. Shaw & Co. as vice president, even though at that time had just 28 years old. His boss at the time, David Shaw, asks Jeff to examine not only new business, but also a new internet business opportunities.

Jeff was thinking about things that can be sold on the internet. He made a list of 20 best-selling goods are sold by mail. He also studied the list and found a book ranked at the top. According to the book business is big business, but no one dominating. He realizes there is no data bank orders through the mail that can contain all the available titles in one year. According to him, a computerized data bank to organize and to become an online bookstore that can be accessed via the Internet. But when Jeff told his boss Shaw was not interested.

Jeff was discussing this with colleagues, MacKenzie. They then wanted to try it for yourself. Jeff was thinking about a suitable name for their business. He began looking for the name "A". Finally he found a suitable name that is Amazon.com. According to Amazon is the largest river, which represents the largest collection in the world. In November 1994, Jeff and several of his colleagues, MacKenzie, Shel, and Paul began working in a narrow garage he uses as an office.

At that time he experienced two problems. The first problem is money. Amazon.com should be able to pay the people who make the business run. So, Jeff formed the company and he holds a position as founder, CEO, board of directors, and president director. The second is software. The only software available is to manage inventory and order processing to design for business orders via regular mail. But thanks to their tenacity, all that can be overcome.

Amazon.com has a very quick success because their businesses are very easy for users to find the desired book. Also, Amazon.com sells their products at prices cheaper than the store. Their success continues today, where they now also sell many items other than books.

Thanks to hard work, passion, intelligence, and perseverance, Jeff Bezos managed to build a global online store Amazon.com. Of course dipetiknya results now is not easy. Jeff could see the opportunity to open a new business. His talents took him become a successful entrepreneur. A life experience that can be exemplified by a Jeff Bezos (Andrew Wongso. Photos from www.achievement.org)

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