Jeff Bezos Biography

Fast Facts

• At age 4, his last name was changed to Bezos after his mother married Miguel Bezos, who adopted him
• Grew up in Houston, Texas, and later Miami, Florida
• Worked at McDonald's while he was in high school
• Graduated summa cum laude with a 4
• 2 GPA from Princeton University
• Suffers from ptosis (blepharoptosis) also known as "lazy eye
• "Founded Amazon on July 5, 1994, in Bellevue, Washington
• In 2000, founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company
• In 2020, launched Bezos Earth Fund, an initiative to help fight climate change
• The first person to be worth 200 billion dollars according to Forbes