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G4-15 Things You Didn't Know About Jeff Bezos
G4-15 Things You Didn't Know About Jeff Bezos
He graduated from Princeton with the Highest Honours
Study for Bachelors of Science in Engineering alongside Computer Engineering & Computer Science
Elected to Tau Beta Pi (Oldest Engineering Society)
2.He is a very tough boss
He likes an adversarial atmosphere regularly forwards customer complaint onto a staff with a probing question mark.
He was originally going to name Amazon 'Cadabra'
Cadabra was a shortened version of adacadabra
Cadabra was choosen for his book selling website
He bought a new domain called 'Relentless' but it sounded too sinister
In 1995, Jeff Bezos bought Amazon.com
12.He founded a summer camp with his girlfriend when he was a teenager
the summer camp was for kids love technology
the summer camp was called Dream Institute
He's been in talks with Richard Branson to commercial space flight opportunities
Richard Branson was founder of Virgin Group, he created virgin galatic
Jeff established his own space exploration called 'Blue Origin'
14.His start up job taught him how not to run a company
1.The very first book sold on Amazon was shipped from Jeff Bezos’ garage
"Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought" was the first book sold in 1995
Because there was no huge warehouse, Bezos packed and dispatched it by himself
3.Bezos banned power point presentations in Amazon’s team meeting
All team meetings start with 30 minutes of reading in the topic.
Jeff Cares about Customer feedback a lot
Release new design for customer's response
Help staff at all levels understand the buying process
Schedule every staff member working on customer service
Bezos Original Business plan for Amazon didn't predict any profit for 5 Years
Bezos plan for slow and steady pace for profitability during dot-com bubble
Turned first profit after 6 years launched in 2001
13.When Amazon only sold books, he would have to source the items after an order come in
10.The house in Seattle that Jeff Bezos founded Amazon from still has an enlarged mailbox
In amazon early days, Bezos and his staff saved money making desks out of doors
11.When he was a kid,Bezos spent his summers working on his grandparent's farm
15.He wanted a Resourceful wife