Jeff Bezos : (Founder and CEO of Amazon.com)
Jeff Bezos, whose actual name is Jeffrey Preston Bezos, played a significant role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Inc., an online retailer of books and later of a variety of commodities. He was created on January 12, 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Amazon became the largest online store and the industry benchmark under his direction. Early life and career When he was still a high school student, Bezos established the Dream Institute, a place that promoted young children's creative thinking. He graduated from Princeton University with degrees in electrical engineering and computer science in 1986, and he worked in a variety of capacities before joining the New York investment bank D.E. Shaw & Co. in 1990. Bezos, the organization's youngest senior vice president, was tasked with investigating the investment possibilities offered by the Internet. Its enormous potential—the use of the Web was rising by more than 2,000% annually—stirred hi...