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[] EDUCATION- Founder of Amazon.com ,Jeffrey Preston Bezos, graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Computer Science and Electical engineering.
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CHARITABLE GIVING- Jeffrey Bezos donated $15 million dollars to Princeton University. ACCOMPLISHMENTS- He was TIME's person of the year in 1999.

SALARY- Jeff Bezos's salary is a total of $1,681,840 a year.

Amazon was founded in 1994 and started as a bookstore then expanded rapidly to include other products.

SIZE OF BUSINESS- Amazon.com has at least five distrabutions center that are 5 million square feet.

OTHER JOBS- He was a Vice President at D.E. Shaw before founding Amazon.

OTHER INVENTIONS- He tried to create an airbag to safegaurd your cell phone.

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