Whenever we talk about online shopping, the first name that comes to our mind is Amazon. A website that is the world’s largest e-commerce website today, started from a small garage of a house.
The expedition of making a website from the garage of a house to the biggest e-commerce website in the world cannot be done by any ordinary person. But yes, that person is an ordinary person with extraordinary determination.
JEFF BEZOS
The person who completely changed the way people shop through his website. Let’s talk about the journey of Jeff Bezos’s life, his ups and downs and his story of success.
Early life
Jeff Bezos was born on January 12, 1964, in New Mexico City, USA. When he was born, his mother was studying in high school and at that time she was just 17 years old. His father left his mother when Jeff Bezos was only 18 months old.
Education
His mother then remarried and Jeff Bezos shifted to Boston and completed his primary education at River Oaks Elementary School. His family then shifted to Florida and there he did his schooling at Miami Palmetto Senior High School.
He then attended the science stream at the University of Florida. He also received the Silver Knights Award in 1982. He completed his graduation in computer science from Princeton University in 1986.
Professional life
He was a cook at McDonald’s at the age of 16. At that place, mistakenly a 5-gallon catch-up container had fallen from him and he had to work day and night to make up for it.
Jeff Bezos was very disappointed with this incident and on that day thought that he had to do something big in life. Sometimes such incidents happen in our life for a reason, these incidents remind us that we are here for a purpose. It teaches us something and forces us to do something big and the same thing happened with Jeff Bezos.
After his graduation, Jeff Bezos worked in forecasting or analyzing investments in D.E. Shaw & Co., a Wall Street-based hedge fund firm. By contemplating the skills, intelligence, talent and hard work of Jeff Bezos, the company made him the youngest senior vice president of the company.
If you want to become something, then do so much hard work that other things seem too small in front of your efforts.
How did Amazon start?
The world’s largest e-commerce website-Amazon started in 1994. Amazon was commenced in the garage of Jeff Bezos’s house. In beginning, he used to sell books online.
In 1998, he started selling CDs online.
In 1999, pawn shops were added to his website in which people could buy or sell their goods through online auctions while sitting at their homes.
By the end of the same year, Jeff Bezos had become a billionaire. Within a few years, the Amazon website had overtaken everyone in the world of e-commerce. In 2005, Jeff Bezos started selling electronics and hardware items through his website.
On August 5, 2013, Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post Co. of America for $250 million.
According to Forbes, Jeff Bezos is the world’s richest person today with a net worth of $ 185 billion. His hard work, dedication and intelligence made Amazon the world’s largest company, starting with 21 people from the garage of a house.
Jeff Bezos sets an example for every individual who panics when he sees his current situation and thinks that his situation will never improve. But this man proved this idea wrong. He proved that it doesn’t matter where you are today and how your circumstances are – good or bad. The main thing that matter is how much ability do you have to get out of your situation.
Always remember that no situation in life is permanent whether it’s good or bad. If things are bad today, then tomorrow there will be good days too. Even the best days of your life will come. For this, you have to try to get out of your bad situations. You should know your potential. You would know your potential only when you will try to wipe out negativity from your mind.
- How would be the journey from being a cook in a restaurant to becoming the richest man in the world?
- Would it be easy?
Think and ask yourself:
Every human being is ordinary but his extraordinary determination and hard work make him different from others.
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