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10 unusual facts about Jeff Bezos


Alan Stern

On or about December 2008, Stern joined Blue Origin, a company that was founded by Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos as an independent representative for research and education Missions.

Blue Origin Goddard

The private spacecraft venture is being funded by the billionaire founder of Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos.

Book Stacks Unlimited

Book Stacks Unlimited was an online bookstore created by Charles M. Stack in 1992, two years before Jeff Bezos launched Amazon.com.

Clock of the Long Now

The manufacture and site construction of the first full-scale prototype clock is being funded by Jeff Bezos, who has donated $42 million, and is located on his Texas land.

The site is on property owned by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, who is also funding its construction.

Eric Richard Ward

Ward is frequent speaker at Internet industry conferences including Danny Sullivan's Search Marketing Expo, Search Engine Strategies, the Direct Marketing Association, and is also known as the person Jeff Bezos selected to execute the debut publicity and linking campaign for Amazon.com.

Kongregate

As of July 2008, Kongregate had raised around $9 million in capital from investments by Reid Hoffman, Jeff Clavier, Jeff Bezos, and Greylock Partners.

Rakesh Aggarwal

As with successful entrepreneurs such as Enterprise Rent-A-Car’s Jack C. Taylor, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Pret A Manger’s Sinclair Beecham and Julian Metcalfe, Aggarwal insists customer service is the guiding principle of his business philosophy.

Steve Yegge

His 3,700-word comment garnered major media and blogger attention for Yegge's pointed commentary criticizing the leanings of the company's technological culture (such as labeling Google+'s minimalist and, in his view, lackluster public platform "a pathetic afterthought") as well as for his comments about his former employer, Amazon (such as calling Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos "Dread Pirate Bezos").

Trestle support

For instance, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and top Amazon executives usually worked on doors set on trestle supports, as a visible example of a frugal company culture.


OpenSearch

OpenSearch was developed by Amazon.com subsidiary A9 and the first version, OpenSearch 1.0, was unveiled by Jeff Bezos at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in March, 2005.