American entrepreneur who founded Amazon in a rented garage in Bellevue, Washington on July 5, 1994, and led it as chief executive until stepping down on July 5, 2021.
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Bezos's founding and scaling of Amazon from an online bookstore into a global platform is a standard entrepreneurship case study in opportunity identification and venture growth.
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Chief executive from Amazon's 1994 founding until stepping down on July 5, 2021, when he became executive chairman; succeeded as CEO by Andy Jassy.
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He and his then-wife, MacKenzie Scott, left their jobs at D. E. Shaw and founded Amazon in a rented garage in Bellevue, Washington on July 5, 1994.
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On July 5, 2021, Bezos took over the role of executive chairman and stepped down as the CEO and president of Amazon, succeeded by Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy.
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