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Putin Tops '100 Most Powerful' List; Angelina Jolie...

FOXNews.com - Found Sep. 3, 2008
Google 4. Steve Jobs, Apple, Disney, and Pixar (2) 5. Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway (5) 6. Jeff Bezos, Amazon (23) 7. Sheikh Mohammed...
Ambanis among world?s most powerful people list - Livemint.com
Putin is 'most influential' - Telegraph
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FOXNews.com

Posted on September 3, 2008, 11:35 am

My Virtual Life

BusinessWeek - Found Aug. 31, 2008
On Mar. 28, Linden Lab raised a second, $11 million round of private financing, including new investor Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com Inc (AMZN...

Posted on August 31, 2008, 4:51 am

Novelist Neal Stephenson Once Again Proves He's the King of the ...

Wired News: Top Stories - Found Aug. 28, 2008
... software of choice for mathematicians and engineers.) For six years, he was an adviser to Jeff Bezos' space-flight startup, Blue Origin.

Posted on August 28, 2008, 10:00 am

Five Ways Amazon Can Improve the Kindle 2.0

Wired News - Found Aug. 28, 2008
Here are five things that Jeff Bezos should include if he wants the Kindle 2.0 to be the best e-book reader on the planet Sex Appeal The...
Amazon puts the kibosh on Kindle 2.0 rumors - Engadget
Extinguish the Rumors: No New Amazon Kindle This Year - New York Times
Amazon Beefs Up Kindle Franchise - Red Orbit
Details Emerge About New Kindle - E-Gear
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Wired News

Posted on August 28, 2008, 4:16 am

Work harder, take home less

CNN - Found Aug. 28, 2008
"This is coming from people who weren't in the top 1% before," he said. "Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, the Google founders.
Work harder, take home less - CNN
Work harder, take home less - Fortune
Work harder, take home less - CNN Money
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Posted on August 28, 2008, 3:50 am

Amazon Relies on Customers to Pimp the Kindle

Wired News - Found Aug. 27, 2008
... selling the Kindle?no outside advertising and just relying on the Kindle community and stumping by Jeff Bezos to drive sales?is deliberate.
Amazon Beefs Up Kindle Franchise - BusinessWeek
Is E Ink Publishing's Savior? - Forbes.com
New version of Amazons Kindle to target education - IT Week
New version of Amazon?s Kindle to target education - VNUNet.com
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Posted on August 27, 2008, 4:25 am

Amazon Relies on Customers to Pimp the Kindle

Wired News: Top Stories - Found Aug. 26, 2008
... selling the Kindle?no outside advertising and just relying on the Kindle community and stumping by Jeff Bezos to drive sales?is deliberate.

Posted on August 26, 2008, 9:15 am

Amazon Prepares Kindle 2.0

BusinessWeek - Found Aug. 25, 2008
... will finally start living up to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos? rarified talk ... They say Bezos is genuinely ecstatic about the progress of the ...
A Textbook Case for the Kindle - Wired News
New Kindle rumor revived, this time with a collegiate twist - Engadget
Analyst: Amazon to Kindle Market for E-Textbooks - E-Commerce Times
Kindle textbook speculation strikes fear into backpack industry - SiliconValley.com
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Engadget

Posted on August 25, 2008, 1:51 pm

Does age matter when you're CEO?

USA Today - Found Aug. 12, 2008
Amazon, (AMZN) with 44-year-old Jeff Bezos at the helm, is the runaway leader among both age groups: up 121%. When Bezos was 39, he was part...

Posted on August 12, 2008, 10:22 am

EIC Squared: Amazon's Kindle, iPhone, and Dell laptops

CNET News.com - Found Aug. 14, 2008
If the Kindle were on such a hot streak, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos would be talking up the sales numbers.

Posted on August 14, 2008, 11:01 am

Jeff Bezos Biography

Jeff Bezos
extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Jeffrey Preston Bezos

Jeff Bezos 2005
Born January 12, 1964 (1964-01-12) (age 44)
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Occupation Chairman and CEO of Amazon.com
Height US$8.2 billion (2008)

Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is the founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Amazon.com. Bezos, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University, worked as a financial analyst for D. E. Shaw & Co. before founding Amazon in 1994. He was named Time magazine's Person of the Year in 1999.[1]

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Biography

Bezos' maternal ancestors were settlers from Greece which lived in Texas, and over the generations had acquired a 25,000 acre (101 km² or 39 miles²) ranch in Cotulla. Bezos's maternal grandfather was a regional director of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in Albuquerque. He retired early to the ranch, where Bezos spent most summers of his youth, working with his grandfather at the enormously varied tasks essential to the operation. At an early age, he displayed a striking mechanical aptitude. When a toddler, he tried dismantling his crib with a screwdriver.[2]

Bezos was born when his mother, Jackie Bezos, was still in her teens. Her marriage to his father lasted little more than a year. She remarried when Bezos was five. Bezos's stepfather, Miguel Bezos, was born in Cuba; he migrated to the United States alone at age 15 and worked his way through the University of Albuquerque. When he married Bezos's mother, the family moved to Houston, Texas, and Miguel Bezos became an engineer for Exxon. Bezos attended River Oaks Elementary in Houston from the 4th to 6th grades.

Bezos showed intense and varied scientific interests at an early age. He rigged an electric alarm to keep his younger siblings out of his room and maintain his privacy. He converted his parents' garage into a laboratory for his science projects. The family moved to Miami, Florida, where Bezos attended Miami Palmetto Senior High School.[3] While in high school, he attended the Student Science Training Program at the University of Florida; which helped him receive a Silver Knight Award in 1982.[4] He entered Princeton University, planning to study physics, but soon returned to his love of computers and graduated with a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Bezos was awarded an honorary doctorate in Science and Technology from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008.

Career

After graduating from Princeton, Bezos worked on Wall Street in the computer science field. Then he worked on building a network for international trade for a company known as Fitel. Later on Bezos also worked in computer science for D. E. Shaw & Co..

Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 after making a cross country drive from New York to Seattle, writing up the Amazon business plan on the way and setting up the original company in his garage [5], his work with Amazon eventually led him to become one of the most prominent dot-com entrepreneurs. In 2004, he founded a human spaceflight startup company called Blue Origin.

Bezos is known for his attention to business process details, and is also said to have a very distinctive honk-like laugh. [6]

Artificial artificial intelligence

Artificial artificial intelligence (AAI) is a term coined by Jeff Bezos. Certain computational tasks, such as identifying whether a person in a photograph is male or female, are tasks that humans still do better and faster than computers. If perfect artificial intelligence systems existed, computer programs could complete those tasks. The idea of artificial artificial intelligence is to outsource those parts of a computer program to humans.[7] AAI is the underlying principle behind Amazon Mechanical Turk.

Estimated wealth

Bezos' wealth is primarily derived from his holding of Amazon.com stock; in 1998 he held 41 percent of Amazon.com stock but by the end of 2006 he held just over 100 million shares of common stock, representing 24.26 percent of all Amazon.com shares. Bezos receives a modest salary of US$81,840 (with benefits of US$1.1 million), which has remained unchanged since 1998.[8]

  • 1999 – US$10.1 billion, no. 19
  • 2000 – US$6.0 billion, no. 23
  • 2001 – US$2.0 billion, no. 234
  • 2002 – US$1.5 billion, no. 293
  • 2003 – US$2.5 billion, no. 147
  • 2004 – US$5.1 billion, no. 82
  • 2005 – US$4.8 billion, no. 41
  • 2006 – US$4.3 billion, no. 147
  • 2007 – US$4.4 billion, no. 188
  • 2008 – US$8.2 billion, no. 110

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