Jeffrey
Preston Bezos is an
American technology entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. He is the
founder, chairman, CEO, and president of Amazon.
Bezos
was born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen on January 12, 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico,
the son of Jacklyn Gise Jorgensen and Chicago, Illinois, native Ted Jorgensen. At the time of his birth, his mother was a
17 years old high school student, and his
father was a bike shop owner. After Jacklyn divorced Ted, she married Cuban immigrant Miguel "Mike" Bezos in
April 1968. (2)Bezos was always inventing something new: a solar
cooker, hovercraft, a robot, lasers and an electric alarm; the alarm worked as
a security system to keep his siblings out of his room. Bezos’ hobby is so elite and expensive, (2)he spends time combing the
oceans for discarded NASA rocket ships. (1b)Bezos attended River Oaks Elementary School in Houston from
fourth to sixth grade.
He graduated from Princeton University in
1986 with degrees in electrical engineering and computer science. In 1992, (1d)Bezos was working for D. E. Shaw in Manhattan, New York City, when he met
novelist MacKenzie
Tuttle, who was a research associate at the firm; the couple married
a year later. He founded Amazon in late 1994 on a cross-country road trip from New York City to Seattle. (1c)Bezos had become convinced of the internet’s immense
mercantile potential during his stints at Bankers Trust and D. E. Shaw & Co. (1b)Amazon began as an online bookstore
and has expanded to a variety of products and services, including video and
audio streaming. It
is currently the world's largest online sales company, as well as the world's
largest provider of cloud infrastructure services via its Amazon Web Services arm.
(1b)Bezos
added to his business interests when he founded aerospace company Blue Origin in 2000. A Blue Origin test flight
successfully first reached space in 2015, and Blue has plans to begin
commercial suborbital human spaceflight in 2019. (1b)He purchased The
Washington Post in 2013 for US$250 million
in cash. (1a)Bezos manages other business
investments through his venture capital fund, Bezos
Expeditions.
On
July 27, 2017, (1b)he
became the world's
wealthiest person when his estimated net worth increased to just
over $90 billion.
Bezos's wealth surpassed $100 billion for the first time on November 24,
2017, and he was formally designated the wealthiest person in the world by Forbes on March 6, 2018, with a net worth of
$112 billion. The first centi-billionaire on the Forbes
wealth index, he was named the "richest man in
modern history" after his net worth
increased to $150 billion in July 2018.
Explanation:
1a. Simple Present Tense
1b. Simple Past Tense
1c. Past Perfect Tense
1d. Past Continuous Tense
2. Gerunds
3. He, She : Personal Pronouns
His : Possessive Pronouns
