American entrepreneur Jeff Preston Bezos is the founder of a global e-commerce and cloud-computing empire Amazon.com. Born on January 12, 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he is a man who transformed an online bookstore into one of the world’s most influential companies by prioritizing things like customer experience, logistical innovation, and large-scale technological infrastructure above all. Through his efforts he’s accelerated the adoption of cloud services globally. Since then the Princeton University computer science and electrical engineering student has even expanded his interests into space exploration, media, and philanthropic work as well.