Unlike tycoons like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates or Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos didn’t drop out of college, a fact that responds to those who say that it is not necessary to study to achieve success. Some are a little luckier than others, but Bezos, the founder of Amazon, believed in continuing his studies.
As he recalls a report published on the website of The CEO, Bezos is the fourth richest man in the world, according to Forbes. His fortune reached it with Amazon, the largest e-commerce on the planet and one of the most valuable companies today.
Jeff Bezos was born in New Mexico on January 12, 1964, celebrating his 59th birthday on Thursday. When he was little, he moved to Houston with his mother and stepfather and then came to Florida, where he attended high school. He finished his basic studies at Miami Palmetto Senior High School, before making the leap to college.
What did Jeff Bezos study?
Bezos studied at Princeton Universityin New Jersey, United States, where he studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and graduated in 1986.
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, Jeff Bezos graduated with the highest honors of the race, with a GPA greater than 9.5 and was recognized as a brilliant student from its inception.
Before creating Amazon, Bezos worked at Intel and Bell Labs, with charges related to their studies. Then he started working in DE Shaw hedge fundwhere he analyzed the movements of the Internet and was in charge of seeing the investment possibilities within the network, which sowed his concern for using this medium in his next businesses.
Currently, Jeff Bezos is dedicated to Blue Origin, his company of suborbital flights with which he seeks to compete with SpaceX. In 2021 he ceased to be CEO of Amazon.
