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Jeff Bezos

Entrepreneur

Born 1964

Biography

Jeff Bezos, born January 12, 1964, is the founder of Amazon.com, Inc., which he launched on July 5, 1994. Under his leadership, Amazon transformed from an online bookstore into the world's largest online retailer and a key player in cloud computing through Amazon Web Services (AWS). In 2000, Bezos founded Blue Origin, a company focused on developing technologies to enable private human access to space. Notably, in 2013, he purchased The Washington Post for $250 million, revitalizing its digital presence and expanding its readership. Bezos held the title of the world's richest person multiple times, with Forbes listing his net worth at over $200 billion in 2021.

About

Born January 12, 1964

Birthplace Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Nationality American

Education Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

School Princeton University

Popular Quotes

"We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better."

Customer service Customer satisfaction Customer experience Business philosophy

"If you can make a decision with analysis, you should do so. But it turns out in life that your most important decisions are always made with instinct and intuition, taste, heart."

Personal growth Self-awareness Personal development Emotional intelligence

"You can have a job, or you can have a career, or you can have a calling. If you can somehow figure out how to have a calling, you have hit the jackpot, cause that’s the big deal."

Life goals Career advice Job satisfaction Career satisfaction

"If you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve."

Resilience Creativity Perspective Personal development

"If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon."

Motivation Personal growth Success Resilience

"Most large organizations embrace the idea of invention, but are not willing to suffer the string of failed experiments necessary to get there."

Innovation Business strategy Risk management Experimentation

"Most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70% of the information you wish you had. If you wait for 90%, in most cases, you’re probably being slow."

Leadership Decision making Efficiency Business strategy

"If you're watching your competitors, you're unlikely to invent a bunch of stuff on your own."

Inspiration Creativity Innovation Entrepreneurship

"You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate."

Creativity Personal development Courage Innovation

"I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out."

Creativity Innovation Entrepreneurship Problem solving

"Failure and invention are inseparable twins. To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it's going to work, it's not an experiment."

Success Creativity Innovation Progress

"I very frequently get the question, “What’s going to change in the next ten years?” And that is a very interesting question; it’s a very common one. I almost never get the question, “What’s not going to change in the next ten years?” And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important of the two, because you can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time."

Innovation Business strategy Strategic planning Stability

"When [competitors are] in the shower in the morning, they're thinking about how they're going to get ahead of one of their top competitors. Here in the shower, we're thinking about how we are going to invent something on behalf of a customer."

Innovation Business strategy Product development Strategic thinking

"We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent."

Innovation Business strategy Product development Customer satisfaction

"Friends congratulate me after a quarterly-earnings announcement and say, 'Good job, great quarter.' And I'll say, 'Thank you, but that quarter was baked three years ago.'"

Business strategy Financial success Long-term planning

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