10 Interesting facts about the world's richest man

1. Jeff Preston Bezos (famously know as Jeff bezos), the founder of one of the most successful e-commerce website Amazon.com, was born on Sunday, January 12, 1964.





2. When Jeff Bezos was born, his mother only a teenager and her marriage to Jeff's father lasted for less than a year.



3. As a child, Jeff Bezos had a craze foe science. He set up a science laboratory in his parent's garage where he used to come up with new science projects. One of his early science invention was an electric alarm.




4. Amazon received its first major publicity through Yahoo Founder Jerry Yang.



5. An interesting thing that is common between Amazon.com and one of its competitor eBay is that both of these names were not the first choice of their founder.



6. The meaning behind the Jeff's Amazon. com logo, which shows an arrow starting from a and ending with z, elaborates that the company offers the customers anything and everything. In the short, the customers can order anything from A to Z.



7.With Jeff Bezos running the top online retailer company Amazon.com, it would comes as a surprise that Jeff still is a fan of ink and paper.




8. The first item ever to be sold on Jeff's Amazon.com is science textbook titled "Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought".



9. When Jeff Bezos was in high school , he worked at McDonald's as a short- order line cook during the breakfast shift.




10. Thinking you're having a bad day? During the infamous dot com crash Amazon share price fell from around $100 to about $6.



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