Jeff Bezos was on Thursday named the World’s richest person overtaking Microsoft Founder, Bill Gates.
According to Forbes Magazine, the real time tracking of Bezos’ personal fortunes showed a net worth of $90.5billion, ahead of the $90billion for Gates.
Here are 12 things you need to know about the man: Jeffrey Preston Bezos
1. He is 53 Years Old
2. He is an American technology and retail entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist who is best known as the founder, chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Amazon.com, the world's largest online shopping retailer.
3. His company Amazon.com is currently the world's largest Internet sales company on the World Wide Web as well as the world's largest provider of cloud infrastructure services, through its Amazon Web Services arm.
4. He is currently the owner of The Washington Post newspaper, Blue Origin, a human spaceflight startup company and a number of other business investments are managed through His Bezos Expeditions.
5. His latest surname is that of His step-father who married His mother when He was just four years old.
6. He has Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University .
7. He founded Amazon.com in 1994 after making a cross-country drive from New York to Seattle, writing up the Amazon business plan on the way. He initially set up the company in his garage. He had left his well-paying job at a New York City hedge fund after learning "about the rapid growth in Internet use," which coincided with a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling that exempted mail order companies from collecting sales taxes in states where they lack a physical presence."
8. In July 2012, Bezos and his wife personally donated $2.5 million to support a same-sex marriage referendum that successfully passed in Washington.
9. Bezos was awarded an honorary doctorate in Science and Technology from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008.
10. He was named World's Worst Boss by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), at their World Congress, in May 2014. In making the award, Sharan Burrow, general secretary of the ITUC, said "Jeff Bezos represents the inhumanity of employers who are promoting the North American corporate model..." Under Bezos’s direction, Amazon has been criticized as "stingy" in its corporate giving practices.
11. In spite of His enormous wealth, He has just four children.
12. In 2016, Bezos played a Starfleet official in the movie Star Trek Beyond, later joining the cast and crew at a San Diego Comic-Con screening.

Source: http://www.suanusblog.com/2017/07/12-things-you-must-know-about-worlds.html

So amazon started since 1994....nothing comes easy ...and consistency and dedication is the key.....God bless us all beyond our imaginations