Who was Jeff Bezos before Amazon?

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[PufPuf23]

1. Here is what wikipedia says about Bezos.

Jeffrey Preston Bezos (/ˈbeɪzoʊs/;[a][2] né Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman, media proprietor, and investor. He is best known as the founder, CEO, and president of the online retail company Amazon. The first centi-billionaire on the Forbes wealth index, Bezos has been the world's richest person since 2017 and was named the "richest man in modern history" after his net worth increased to $150 billion in July 2018.[3] In September 2018, Forbes described him as "far richer than anyone else on the planet" as he added $1.8 billion to his net worth when Amazon became the second company in history to reach a market cap of $1 trillion.

Born in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and later Miami, Bezos graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science. He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields from 1986 to early 1994. He founded Amazon in late 1994 on a cross-country road trip from New York City to Seattle. The company began as an online bookstore and has since expanded to a wide variety of other e-commerce products and services, including video and audio streaming, cloud computing, and AI. It is currently the world's largest online sales company, the largest Internet company by revenue, and the world's largest provider of virtual assistants[4] and cloud infrastructure services through its Amazon Web Services branch.

Bezos founded the aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company Blue Origin in 2000. A Blue Origin test flight successfully first reached space in 2015, and the company has upcoming plans to begin commercial suborbital human spaceflight.[5] He also purchased the major American newspaper The Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million in cash, and manages many other investments through his Bezos Expeditions venture capital firm.

Wikipedia at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos

[msongs]

2. thanks to him and people who buy crap from amazon, billions for him and pennies for the workers who

actually create the wealth

[gab13by13]

3. Thanks also to people,

who flocked to buy cheap Chinese goods when Walmart came to town. I have been in a Walmart 2 times in my life and I am 72 years old and those 2 times were for emergency supplies that I couldn't get elsewhere because the local stores I used to shop at were put out of business by Walmart.

I still buy American products and most of the time pay more.

The American people flocked to Walmart and flocked to Amazon because they either don't have pride in their country or they have so low wages that that's the only place they can afford to shop.

Walmart started it.

[murielm99]

6. I beat you.

I am 71. I have been in a Walmart three times. It is getting worse around here as far as local stores closing. I hope I don't have to go in there again.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. The video shows Trump's 2018 quote

and is consistent with the idea of the Deep State. Economic theory struggles with the concepts of monopoly and antitrust. In some eras, the government breaks them up. In others they let it ride for decades. Perhaps a more consistent policy would be to tax obscene wealth while earned as well as while inherited. It remains true that only little people pay taxes. Roth IRAs, good lawyers, estate planning, corporate structures enable many relatively wealthy people to avoid all but the smallest of taxes. Almost every professional in America spawns their own Trust Fund Baby Boom. Any idea politicians will confront income inequality is a bigger pipe dream than Jeff Bezos' evacuation plan for Earth.

[Roy Rolling]

5. So true

Politicians never confront income inequality.

Income equality confronts politicians when it reaches critical mass.

The model of the U.S. is that government keeps both sides from annihilating each other. But when the government is infested with self-serving politicians, they take a side.