Famous and Successful Entrepreneurs: Group 3
Famous and Successful Entrepreneurs: Group 3
Famous and Successful Entrepreneurs: Group 3
Successful
Entrepreneurs
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Jeff Bezos
“If you double the number of experiments you do per year
you’re going to double your inventiveness.”
Who is Jeff Bezos?
Born: January 12, 1964
Birth Place: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Industry: online retail
Influence: Revolutionized E-Commerce
Net Worth: $117.2 billion (April 2020)
Jeff Bezos was born in 1964 and is the founder of the president and the chief executive officer
and the Chairman of the board for one of the most popular and well-known websites/e-commerce
sites in the world, Amazon.com. He is also according to Forbes the richest Billionaire in the world.
He was very interested in scientific projects at an early age and got into a lot of trouble by setting
small electric alarms to keep his siblings out of his bedroom. He persuaded his parents to convert
their garage into his own personal laboratory, which suited him just fine.
Who is Jeff Bezos?
He was highly regarded through his school and college years and was awarded an honorary
doctorate in science and technology from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008. After finally
graduating from Princeton University as summa cum laude, Jeff Bezos decided he wanted to work
in computer science field and began working on Wall Street. In 1994 after having an idea on a
cross-country trip from New York to Seattle Jeff Bezos came up with a business plan for what
would be called, Amazon. He got some backing and started the Internet business that very year –
which as we know it is now one of the most successful e-commerce sites in the world.
Amazon.com has a revenue of around $280.52 billion.
Aside from Amazon, Bezos founded a spaceflight company, Blue Origin, in 2000. Blue Origin
bought a launch site in Texas soon thereafter and planned to introduce a crewed suborbital
spacecraft, New Shepard, in 2018 and an orbital launch vehicle, New Glenn, in 2020. Bezos
bought The Washington Post and affiliated publications for $250 million in 2013. Bezos’s net worth
was calculated in 2018 at $112 billion, making him the richest person in the world.
2021 Update: According to some reports, Jeff Bezos’s net worth has grown by 34% on average
over the last five years. This could see him become the world’s first trillionaire by 2026 when he
will be aged 62.
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Elon Musk
“Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless
you are forced to give up."
Learn More About Elon Musk!
Born: June 28, 1971
Birth Place: Pretoria, South Africa
Industry: Founder of PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla
Influence: Revolutionized E-Commerce
Net Worth: $267.3 billion USD (April 2022)
Elon Musk, (born June 28, 1971, Pretoria, South Africa), South African-born American
entrepreneur who cofounded the electronic-payment firm PayPal and formed SpaceX, maker of
launch vehicles and spacecraft. He was also one of the first significant investors in, as well as
chief executive officer of, the electric car manufacturer Tesla.
Learn More About Elon Musk!
Musk was born to a South African father and a Canadian mother. He displayed an early talent for
computers and entrepreneurship. At age 12 he created a video game and sold it to a computer
magazine. In 1988, after obtaining a Canadian passport, Musk left South Africa because he was
unwilling to support apartheid through compulsory military service and because he sought the
greater economic opportunities available in the United States.
Musk attended Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and in 1992 he transferred to the
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, where he received bachelor’s degrees in physics and
economics in 1997. He enrolled in graduate school in physics at Stanford University in California,
but he left after only two days because he felt that the Internet had much more potential to change
society than work in physics. In 1995 he founded Zip2, a company that provided maps and
business directories to online newspapers. In 1999 Zip2 was bought by the computer
manufacturer Compaq for $307 million, and Musk then founded an online financial services
company, X.com, which later became PayPal, which specialized in transferring money online. The
online auction eBay bought PayPal in 2002 for $1.5 billion.
References:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elon-Musk
https://www.incomediary.com/30-most-influential-entrepreneurs-of-all-time-2/?fbclid=IwAR0KauXkI
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