12 January,2017 09:53 AM IST | | mid-day online correspondent
Jeff Bezos, the founder of popular online shopping portal Amazon, turns a year older today. On this occasion, we look at some interesting and lesser known facts about the man...
Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos. Pic/AFP
>> Jeff Bezos was able to show his mechanical aptitude, as a toddler, when he dismantled his baby crib with a screwdriver.
>> Amazon founder Jeff Bezos even had a cameo in the 2016 Hollywood film, 'Star Trek Beyond', in which he played an alien Starfleet commander.
>> Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and set up the company in his garage. He had wrote up the business plan during a cross-country drive from New York to Seattle.
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>> Jeff Bezos is currently the 4th richest person in the world, an estimated net worth of USD 68.6 billion as of December 2016.
>> The Amazon founder is also one of the first investors in Google, investing USD 750,000 in 1998, which later resulted in 5.3 million shares of Google stock now worth about 4,308,900,000
>> Jeff Bezos' Amazon began as an Internet merchant of books and expanded to a wide variety of products and services, most recently video streaming and audio streaming.
>> Aside from Amazon, Bezos has several other business interests, including Blue Origin, a firm he founded in 2000, with test flights to space beginning in 2015, and plans for commercial suborbital human spaceflight beginning in 2018.
>> Jeff Bezos also acquired The Washington Post in 2013.
>> He attended the Student Science Training Program at the University of Florida, receiving a Silver Knight Award in 1982, was high school valedictorian and a National Merit Scholar.
>> Jeff Bezos is also one of the financial backers of Twitter.
