Amazon bought e-readers comfort and convenience with lighted touchscreens that permitted reading in the dark with the Kindle Paperwhite. Bezos also announced the Kindle Fire, a color touchscreen tablet computer that competed with Apple’s iPad. He also started an online sporting products store with over 3,000 different brands.Īmazon later went on to introduce the Kindle, a portable electronic reading device that uses E-Ink to generate text with customizable font size to improve ease of reading, in 2007. In 2003, Amazon launched A9, a commercial search engine specializing in e-commerce websites. Analysts were leery of its viability in comparison to regular retailers at first, but he quickly overtook such competitors.

He went on to create his firm, and in 1995 he became the founder of - an online bookstore. Despite the fact that their financial situation was quite advantageous, he elected to depart after four years.

in New York and was the company’s youngest Vice President at the time.

In 1984, he began working as a Programmer/Analyst in Norway for the summer, and the following year, he enhanced an IBM Program in California. After divorcing his wife, Bezos started dating Lauren Sanchez, a former news anchor, T.V. Shaw, Bezos met MacKenzie Tuttle, with whom he married in 1993. He worked on Wall Street for various firms namely - Fitel, Bankers Trust, and D. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from Princeton University. He spent his summers as a child on his grandfather’s Texan ranch, where he built pipes, vaccinated cattle, and repaired windmills. Jeff Bezos was born in Seattle to parents Jacklyn Gise and Ted Jorgensen, and was raised by Miguel Bezos when his mother married.

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