In his initial discussion of the project which became Alexa with his technical advisor Greg Hart in 2011, Bezos told him that the goal was to create "the Star Trek computer. No. Although the crash was viewed as a setback, news outlets noted how far the company went from its founding-to-date in advancing spaceflight. [63] On February 1, 2018, Amazon reported its highest ever profit with quarterly earnings of $2 billion. [2], An unexpected friendship begins between an elderly Cuban musician with dementia who is brought out of his shell by his care worker, and a disillusioned young pre-med Afghan student named Mina (Ana Golja). [124][125] Journalist Mark O'Connell criticized Bezos' relentless customer focus as "very small" in terms of impact on humanity as a whole. [148][26] Bezos has been known to publicly contest claims made in critical articles, as exemplified in 2015 when he sent a memo to employees denouncing a New York Times piece. [54][failed verification] In November 2007, Bezos launched the Amazon Kindle. [192], Bezos would continue to sporadically surpass Gates throughout the month of October 2017 after Amazon's share price fluctuated. [215][216] According to Forbes, had the Washington state common law applied to their divorce without a prenuptial agreement, Bezos's wealth could have been equitably divided with his ex-wife;[217][218] however, she eventually received 25% of Bezos's Amazon shares, valued at approximately $36 billion, making her the third richest woman in the world. [156] Instead of using presentation slides, Bezos requires high-level employees to present information with six-page narratives. [44][42], In late 1993, Bezos decided to establish an online bookstore. [179] His wealth plummeted even more the following year, dropping 66.6% to $2.0 billion. [184][185] His wealth rose by 85.2% in 2010, leaving him with $12.6 billion. 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Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and dissident was employed as a writer at the Washington Post, owned by Bezos. He was the dean of the Florida International University College of Law from 2009 through 2017. Acosta was the 27th United States Secretary of Labor serving from April 28, 2017 until July 19, 2019. [178] His net worth decreased to $6.1 billion a year later, a 40.5% drop. His wealth surpassed $100 billion for the first time on November 24, 2017, and he was formally designated the wealthiest person in the world by Forbes on March 6, 2018, with a net worth of $112 billion. [50] Although Amazon was originally an online bookstore, Bezos had always planned to expand to other products. [91] Later in November, Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle successfully rocketed into space and reached its planned test altitude of 329,839 feet (100.5 kilometers) before executing a vertical landing back at the launch site in West Texas. [124] During the 1990s, Bezos earned a reputation for relentlessly pushing Amazon forward, often at the expense of public charity and social welfare. Jeff Cuban 'Jeff Cuban Dallas Basketball Ltd. Dallas, TX. Born in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and later … [234][235], According to public campaign finance records, Bezos supported the electoral campaigns of Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, two Democratic U.S. senators from Washington. [236] Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos have supported the legalization of same-sex marriage, and in 2012 contributed $2.5 million to Washington United for Marriage, a group supporting a yes vote on Washington Referendum 74, which affirmed a same-sex marriage law enacted in the state. Bezos founded the aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company Blue Origin in 2000. [94] To execute this program, Blue Origin built six of the vehicles to support all phases of testing and operations: no-passenger test flights, flights with test passengers, and commercial-passenger weekly operations. [261][262] A year later in June, he tweeted that he would announce two philanthropic foci by the end of summer 2018. Jeffrey L. Smith (January 22, 1939 – July 7, 2004) was the author of several best-selling cookbooks and the host of The Frugal Gourmet, a popular American cooking show, which began locally in Tacoma, Washington, in 1973, and the show was originally called Cooking Fish Creatively. [52] In 2003, Amazon rebounded from financial instability and turned a profit of $400 million. Cuban cuisine is a fusion of Spanish and Caribbean cuisines. His speech was followed up with a Miami Herald interview in which he expressed an interest to build and develop hotels, amusement parks, and colonies for human beings who were in orbit. They through a shared loved of music, both their lives are changed. [26] Multiple opinion columnists responded by asking Bezos to pay higher wages to Amazon warehouse workers. Forensic analysis of Bezos's mobile phone conducted by advisory firm FTI Consulting, concluded it "highly probable" that the hack was achieved using a malicious file hidden in a video sent in a WhatsApp message to Bezos from the personal account of the crown prince on May 1, 2018. [51] In response to critical reports from Fortune and Barron's, Bezos maintained that the growth of the Internet would overtake competition from larger book retailers such as Borders and Barnes & Noble. Not who you're looking for? [189] By the time the Forbes list was calculated in March 2016, his net worth was registered at $45.2 billion. [142] Bezos eats exotic foods, such as octopus and roasted iguana. [196], On March 6, 2018, Bezos was officially designated the wealthiest person in the world with a registered net worth of $112 billion. [28], Bezos displayed scientific interests and technological proficiency, and once rigged an electric alarm to keep his younger siblings out of his room. Cuban Americans are the third largest Hispanic American group in the United States. For the surname, see. [227] He had lobbied Paramount for the role and apropos of Alexa and his personal/professional interest in speech recognition. His father Norton was an automobile upholsterer. Its vision statement comes from the inspiring Mary’s Place in Seattle: "no child sleeps outside". Cuban recipes share spices and techniques with Spanish cooking, with some Caribbean influence in spice and flavor. [127] Throughout the early 2000s, he was perceived to be geeky or nerdy. [45] He left his job at D. E. Shaw and founded Amazon in his garage on July 5, 1994, after writing its business plan on a cross-country drive from New York City to Seattle. He should pay his workers first", "If Jeff Bezos wants to help low-income people why not just pay them better? [84] The 18-year-old Bezos stated that he wanted to preserve Earth from overuse through resource depletion. Mr. Jeff Cuban is Head-Sales at HDNet LLC. The film's cast also includes Lauren Holly, Giacomo Gianniotti, Shiva Negar, Jonathan Keltz, Emily Piggford and Taborah Johnson. [72], Criticism of Amazon's business practices continued in September 2018 when Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (Stop BEZOS) Act and accused Amazon of receiving corporate welfare. "[240][241][242][243], In 2014, Amazon won a bid for a cloud computing contract with the CIA valued at $600 million. [103] In January 2016, Bezos set out to reinvent the newspaper as a media and technology company by reconstructing its digital media, mobile platforms, and analytics software. [citation needed], Bezos first became a millionaire in 1997 after raising $54 million through Amazon's initial public offering (IPO). In the Broadcasting industry, Jeff Cuban has 6,617 colleagues in 499 companies located in 46 countries. [56] In 2013, Bezos secured a $600 million contract with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on behalf of Amazon Web Services. [128][129][130], Bezos was seen by some as needlessly quantitative and data-driven. He is due to be replaced as CEO by Andy Jassy, the chief of Amazon’s cloud computing division. [264] As part of this announcement, he committed to establishing the "Day 1 Families Fund" to finance "night shelters and day care centers for homeless families" and the "Day 1 Academies Fund" for early childhood education. [95] Since 2016, Bezos has spoken more freely about his hopes to colonize the solar system, and has been selling $1 billion in Amazon stock each year to capitalize Blue Origin in an effort to support this endeavor. [180] He lost $500 million the following year, which brought his net worth down to $1.5 billion. [90], In 2015, Bezos announced that a new orbital launch vehicle was under development and would make its first flight in the late-2010s. [19] After his parents divorced, his mother married Cuban immigrant Miguel "Mike" Bezos in April 1968. Notably, journalist Brad Stone wrote an unauthorized book that described Bezos as a demanding boss as well as hyper-competitive,[125][131] and opined that Bezos perhaps "bet the biggest on the Internet" than anyone else. [112] In January 2018, an announcement was made concerning Bezos's role within a new, unnamed healthcare company. [74] While preparing to introduce the bill, Sanders opined: "Instead of attempting to explore Mars or go to the moon, how about Jeff Bezos pays his workers a living wage? RelSci Relationships are individuals Jeff Cuban likely has professional access to. (previous page) () In 2016, Bezos allowed select journalists to visit, tour, and photograph his facility. [205] The Motley Fool estimated that if Bezos had not sold any of his shares from its original public offering in 1997, his net worth would sit at $181 billion in 2018. Click ‘Edit’ to add one and help improve Spoke. [98] He announced that New Shepard would begin transporting humans into sub-orbital space by November 2018. [37][38] While at Princeton, Bezos was a member of the Quadrangle Club. [159][160] Bezos maintains the email address jeff@amazon.com[c][161] as an outlet for customers to reach out to him and the company. [87] In September 2011, one of the company's unmanned prototype vehicles crashed during a short-hop test flight. [24] Gise retired early to his family's ranch near Cotulla, Texas, where Bezos would spend many summers in his youth. [96][97] In May 2018, Bezos maintained that the primary goal of Blue Origin is to preserve the natural resources of Earth by making the human species multi-planetary. Jeff Bezos. [33] He attended the Student Science Training Program at the University of Florida. [85][225], In March 2003, Bezos was one of three passengers in a helicopter that crashed in West Texas after the craft's tail boom hit a tree. [177] He was first included on the Forbes World's Billionaires list in 1999 with a registered net worth of $10.1 billion. [136] His physical transformation has been compared to the transformation of Amazon; he is often referred to as the metonym of the company. Black Dragon Capital has acquired Grass Valley (posted on Jul 3, 2020). [193] His net worth surpassed $100 billion for the first time on November 24, 2017, after Amazon's share price increased by more than 2.5%. [128], Bezos uses the term "work–life harmony" instead of the more standard "work–life balance" because he believes balance implies that you can have one and not the other. [105] Bezos and the newspaper's editorial board have dismissed accusations that he unfairly controlled the paper's content and Bezos maintains the paper's independence. 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Shaw & Co, a newly founded hedge fund with a strong emphasis on mathematical modelling in 1990 and worked there until 1994. Bezos rose to be the 5th richest person in the world hours before market close; he gained $7 billion in one hour. Jeff has 2 jobs listed on their profile. During his childhood, Cuban sold garbage bags to pay for a pair of basketball shoes.Mark enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh without attending high school and joined the Pi Lambda Phi International fraternity. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/jeff-bezos-4868.php [77] However, Sanders countered that the companies targeted by his proposal have placed an increased focus on part-time workers to escape benefit obligations. Number of Boards. 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He believes that work and home life are interconnected, informing and calibrating each other. [44][223] In 1994, they moved across the country to Seattle, Washington, where Bezos founded Amazon. [4][6][7] Cuban's first step into the business world occurred at age 12, when he sold garbage bags in order to pay for a pair of expensive basketball shoes. "[147], During the late 2010s, Bezos reversed his reputation for being reluctant to spend money on non-business-related expenses. [12], On February 2, 2021, Bezos announced that he would step down as the CEO of Amazon sometime in the third quarter of 2021, and transition into the role of executive chairman. [195] Bezos was officially ranked as the third wealthiest person in the world up from the 5th spot in 2016. [244] A 2018, $10 billion contract known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) project, this time with the Pentagon, was allegedly written up in a way that favors Amazon. [107], Bezos makes personal investments through his venture capital vehicle, Bezos Expeditions. View Jeff Cuban’s profile on LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional community. [73] This followed revelations by the non-profit group New Food Economy which found that one third of Amazon workers in Arizona, and one tenth of Amazon workers in Pennsylvania and Ohio, relied on food stamps. Iris Bahr is an American actress, comedian, director, writer, author, producer and host of the X-RAE podcast. [104] Throughout the early years of ownership, Bezos was accused of having a potential conflict of interest with the paper. He is Republican.On February 16, 2017, he was announced as President Donald Trump's nominee for … Khashoggi was killed in late 2018, in Turkey's Saudi consulate for his critical stance and journalism against the Saudi government and its leader. OSG Connect has acquired … On October 10, 2017, he made an estimated $6.24 billion in 5 minutes, slightly less than the annual Gross Domestic Product of Kyrgyzstan. Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle reached space in 2015, and afterwards successfully landed back on Earth. [92] He has repeatedly called for increased inter-space energy and industrial manufacturing to decrease the negative costs associated with business-related pollution. [156] When interviewing candidates for jobs at Amazon he has stated he considers three inquiries: can he admire the person, can the person raise the common standard, and under what circumstances could the person become exemplary. [39] In addition, he was elected to Tau Beta Pi and was the president of the Princeton chapter of the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS). "[228] Bezos' family office Zefram LLC is named after Zefram Cochrane a character from Star Trek. [204] During March 9, Bezos earned $230,000 every 60 seconds. [48] Bezos initially named his new company Cadabra but later changed the name to Amazon after the Amazon River in South America, in part because the name begins with the letter A, which is at the beginning of the alphabet. Bezos founded Amazon in late 1994, on a cross-country road trip from New York City to Seattle. The word may refer to someone born in the U.S. of Cuban descent or to someone who has emigrated to the U.S. from Cuba. [57] In October of that year, Amazon was recognized as the largest online shopping retailer in the world. 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[49] He accepted an estimated $300,000 from his parents and invested in Amazon. [253][254] Saudi Arabia has denied the claim. Mark Cuban was born on July 31, 1958, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Best known as the founder, Chief executive officer, and president of Amazon.com, Inc. Wikipedia. According to BBC, Bezos's top security staffer, Gavin de Becker, "linked the hack to the Washington Post's coverage of the murder of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul." The previous record high price of $150 million was paid by Lachlan Murdoch. [26] His relative lack of philanthropy compared to other billionaires has drawn a negative response from the public since 2016. 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Life", "Jeff Bezos collected news and commentary", List of mergers and acquisitions by Amazon, Trial of Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jeff_Bezos&oldid=1007042055, Businesspeople from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni, Wikipedia articles needing factual verification from December 2019, Wikipedia pages semi-protected against vandalism, Short description is different from Wikidata, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Articles lacking reliable references from February 2021, Articles with failed verification from September 2020, Articles with unsourced statements from February 2021, Pages using Sister project links with hidden wikidata, Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers, Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, In 1999, Bezos received his first major award when, Bezos was awarded an honorary doctorate in science and technology from, In 2012, Bezos was named Businessperson of the Year by, 2014 – 2018, he was ranked the best-performing CEO in the world by, In September 2016, Bezos received a $250,000 prize for winning the, In February 2018, Bezos was elected to the. [250], In March 2018, Bezos met in Seattle with Mohammad bin Salman, the crown prince and de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, to discuss investment opportunities for Saudi Vision 2030. Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen was born to 17-year-old high school student Jacklyn Gise on Jan. 12, 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. [116][117] In 2013, Bezos Expeditions funded the recovery of two Saturn V first-stage Rocketdyne F-1 engines from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys Black History Month STARmeter Awards San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film Festival Awards Central Festival Central All Events [210], In 2019, Bezos's wealth was reduced by his divorce from his wife MacKenzie Bezos. … This page was last edited on 16 February 2021, at 04:48. The Cuban is a 2019 Canadian drama film, directed by Sergio Navarretta. He received Germany's 2018 Axel Springer Award for Business Innovation and Social Responsibility. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it was reported that Bezos's fortune had grown by $24 billion, citing a surge in demand from households on lockdown shopping on Amazon. [43] Bezos was promoted to head of development and director of customer service thereafter. ", [146] while in 2019, Harvard Business Review, which ranked Bezos the best-performing CEO for 4 years in a row since 2014, did not rank him even in the top 100 citing Amazon's "relatively low ESG (environment, social, and governance) scores" that reflect "risks created by working conditions and employment policies, data security, and antitrust issues. [207] Following the report by Quartz, Amazon workers in Poland, (Germany), and Spain participated in demonstrations and labor strikes to draw attention to his growing wealth and the lack of compensation, labor rights, and satisfactory working conditions of select Amazon workers. This percentage increase ascended him to the 43rd spot on the ranking from 68th. The film stars Ana Golja as Mina, a young woman working at a nursing home managed by her aunt Bano (Shohreh Aghdashloo) while preparing for medical school, whose outlook on life is profoundly changed when she meets and befriends Luis Garcia (Louis Gossett Jr.), a former Cuban jazz musician … [88] In May 2013, Bezos met with Richard Branson, chairman of Virgin Galactic, to discuss commercial spaceflight opportunities and strategies. [38], In 2016, Bezos played a Starfleet official in the movie Star Trek Beyond, and joined the cast and crew at a San Diego Comic-Con screening. He is the richest man in the world according to Forbes' Real Time Billionaires ranking.[6]. [18] After completing high school despite challenging conditions, Jacklyn attended night school while bringing baby Jeff along. [191] After sporadic jumps in Amazon's share price, in July 2017 he briefly unseated Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates as the wealthiest person in the world. From Jeff Bezos to Mark Cuban: What some of the world's richest billionaires studied in college Published Thu, Feb 6 2020 10:53 AM EST Updated Thu, Feb 6 2020 11:03 AM EST Taylor Locke @itstaylorlocke The Cuban is a 2019 Canadian drama film, directed by Sergio Navarretta. [115] Bezos used Bezos Expeditions to fund several philanthropic projects, including an Innovation center at the Seattle Museum of History and Industry and the Bezos Center for Neural Circuit Dynamics at Princeton Neuroscience Institute. Get the comprehensive player rosters for every MLB baseball team. [42] He first worked at Fitel, a fintech telecommunications start-up, where he was tasked with building a network for international trade. At the height of its power, Alpha 66 operated at a level similar to … This venture, later named Haven, is expected to be a partnership between Amazon, JPMorgan, and Berkshire Hathaway. [131][132] This perception was detailed by Alan Deutschman, who described him as "talking in lists" and "[enumerating] the criteria, in order of importance, for every decision he has made. [230][231][232] On April 4, 2019, the divorce was finalized, with Bezos keeping 75% of the couple's Amazon stock and MacKenzie getting the remaining 25% ($35.6 billion) in Amazon stock. [194] When the 2017 list was issued, Bezos's net worth was registered at $72.8 billion, adding $27.6 billion from the previous year.