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Jeffrey Preston "Jeff" Bezos (; born January 12, 1964) is an American entrepreneur and investor. He is a technology entrepreneur who has played a role in the growth of e-commerce〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ted.com/speakers/jeff_bezos.html?/ )〕 as the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, an online merchant of books and later of a wide variety of products. Amazon.com became the largest retailer on the World Wide Web and a model for Internet sales. In 2013, Bezos purchased ''The Washington Post'' newspaper. As of November 2015, Bezos's personal wealth is estimated to be US$ 59 billion, due in part to a recent spike in Amazon's stock price, ranking him 5th on the Forbes list of billionaires. ==Early life and education== Bezos was born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen in Albuquerque, New Mexico to Jacklyn (née Gise) and Ted Jorgensen. His maternal ancestors were settlers who lived in Texas, and over the generations acquired a 25,000-acre (101 km2 or 39 miles2) ranch near Cotulla. , Bezos was among the largest land holders in Texas. Bezos's maternal grandfather was a regional director of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in Albuquerque. He retired early to the ranch, where Bezos spent many summers as a youth, working with him.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biography and Video Interview of Jeff Bezos at Academy of Achievement )〕 At an early age, he displayed mechanical aptitude – as a toddler, he tried dismantling his crib. Bezos's mother Jacklyn was a teenager at the time of his birth. Her marriage to his father lasted a little more than a year. When Jeff was four, she remarried, to Miguel Bezos, a Cuban who immigrated to the United States alone when he was fifteen years old. Miguel worked his way through the University of Albuquerque, married Jacklyn and legally adopted his stepson Jeff. After the wedding, the family moved to Houston, Texas, and Miguel became an engineer for Exxon. The young Jeff attended River Oaks Elementary School in Houston from fourth to sixth grade. As a child, he spent summers at his grandfather's ranch in southern Texas, "laying pipe, vaccinating cattle and fixing windmills."〔 Bezos often displayed scientific interests and technological proficiency; he once rigged an electric alarm to keep his younger siblings out of his room.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biography and Video Interview of Jeff Bezos at Academy of Achievement )〕 The family moved to Miami, Florida, where he attended Miami Palmetto Senior High School. While in high school, he attended the Student Science Training Program at the University of Florida, receiving a Silver Knight Award in 1982. He was high school valedictorian〔 and was a National Merit Scholar.〔("National Merit Scholars You May Know" ). NationalMerit.org. Retrieved December 16, 2014.〕 He attended Princeton University, intending to study physics, but soon returned to his love of computers and graduated ''summa cum laude'', with two Bachelor of Science degrees in electrical engineering and computer science. While at Princeton, he was elected to the honor societies Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi. He also served as the President of the Princeton chapter of the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jeff Bezos」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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