Jeff Bezos Success Story – Jeff Bezos has become a household name now, and why shouldn’t it be when the man blessed with extraordinary business acumen is hard to displace from the #1 spot on the world’s richest men list – a feat which Elon Musk achieved though only briefly.

Be it E-commerce, online video and audio streaming, newspaper printing or space exploration,

there is hardly any niche that Jeff Bezos has missed. In this success story post, we will take a good look at the journey of Jeff Bezos and the hard work and effort he put in to reach the pinnacle of success.

Table of Contents:

• Jeff Bezos’s Early Life & Family Background
• Education
• Professional Beginnings
• Laying the Foundation of Amazon
• Amazon Kindle E-reader & Fire
• Venturing into the world of drones
• Acquiring Whole Foods Grocery Chain
• Acquiring The Washington Post
• Venturing into Spaceflight niche
• Setting up Earth Fund
• Bezos Day One Fund
• Quitting the position of Amazon’s CEO
• Jeff Bezos’s Personal Life
• The Bottom Line

Jeff Bezos’s Early Life & Family Background

Born to a teenage mother on 12th January 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Jeff Bezos got his last name from his step father Mike Bezos- a Cuban immigrant. His mother Jacklyn Gise was only 17 years old when Bezos was born; his biological father Ted Jorgensen too was just 19 years old then.