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Jeff's mother, as smart, headstrong and pioneering as anyone in the clan, married young and gave birth to Jeff on Jan. 12, 1964, when she was 17. The marriage lasted about a year. Jeff has neither memory of nor interest in his biological father. "I've never been curious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeff Bezos: Bio: An Eye On The Future | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Lots of hands shoot up during the Q.&A. period. "Bloomberg says Amazon is going to fall flat on its face," asserts one person. Bezos dismisses the comment. "We have a ton of doubters, and the fact of the matter is, we don't try to convince them," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeff Bezos: Bio: An Eye On The Future | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

And then a surprising thing happens. The workers in the first four rows start handing up their white hardhats to be signed too. Then a group of workers behind them gets up and encircles Bezos, proffering hats, dollar bills, scraps of paper--anything--for his signature. Welcome to Bezosville, U.S.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeff Bezos: Bio: An Eye On The Future | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Jeff was an exceptionally smart child. Fed up with sleeping in a crib, the toddler found a screwdriver and reduced his jail to its component parts. He constantly built models, worked a Radio Shack electronics kit that Pop bought him down to the nubs and endlessly tinkered with stuff. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeff Bezos: Bio: An Eye On The Future | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

If you ask him today who his heroes were, he names two: Thomas Edison and Walt Disney. The former was a brilliant innovator and a horrid businessman, the latter a good innovator and a great businessman. It wasn't Disney's movies that impressed Bezos but his theme parks. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeff Bezos: Bio: An Eye On The Future | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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