Jeff Bezos. His Biography and Rise to Riches gives me chills
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos went from the son of a teen mom to the world's richest person. Worth more than $90 billion, according to Forbes, he took the top spot from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, thanks to recent jumps in the value of Amazon stock after an impressive quarterly financial report.
But Bezos hasn't always been the billionaire titan he is today. He was born the son of a 16-year-old mom and deadbeat dad. And he didn't set out to be the CEO of an e-commerce juggernaut.
Jeff also had an intriguing and motivational story. Took the less safe path to follow his passion and became proud of that choice.
Bezos got straight As in high school, was the valedictorian of his class and was accepted early admission to Princeton, according to Stone's biography. For a time in college, he thought he would be a theoretical physicist.
But it was years later, while working in finance in New York City that he had the idea to start Amazon.
"I came across the fact that Web usage was growing at 2,300 percent per year. I'd never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast, and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles — something that simply couldn't exist in the physical world — was very exciting to me," says Bezos, in his 2010 Princeton address.
Now here we have Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon.
He has just made 6.59 billion dollars just for the year 2018. What a magnificent amount.
Learn to follow your heart.