JEFF BEZOS
Founder and CEO, Amazon.com
Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon.com. Amazon is consistently ranked
as one of the top retail sites on the Internet and offers over one million titles
via its Web site, located at http://www.amazon.com.
After graduating from Princeton summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in electrical
engineering and computer science in 1986, Bezos joined FITEL, a high-tech start-up
company in New York. In 1988, Bezos joined Bankers Trust Company, New York, leading
the development of computer systems that helped manage more than $250 billion in
assets and becoming their youngest vice president in February 1990.
From 1990 to 1994, Bezos helped build one of the most technically sophisticated
and successful quantitative hedge funds on Wall Street for D.E. Shaw & Co., New York,
becoming their youngest senior vice president in 1992.
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