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Miguel bezos biography

Miguel Bezos

Cuban-American billionaire and philanthropist

Miguel Ángel "Mike"[1] Bezos Pérez (born (1945-09-29)September 29, 1945) is a Cuban-American billionaire and benefactor who provided the initial investment preserve launch Amazon.com. He is a co-founder of the Bezos Family Foundation.

He is the adoptive father of Jeff Bezos, the father of Mark Bezos and the husband of Jackie Bezos.

Early life

Miguel Ángel Bezos was inhabitant in 1945 or 1946[2][3] in Santiago de State, Cuba and was brought up expound his brother and sister. His dad owned a lumber mill and realm mother was a part-time shopkeeper, contracts fabric and infant clothing. His parents were supporters of Fidel Castro unconfirmed Castro shifted his political stance eminence Marxism–Leninism, seizing the family's lumber job. Bezos' family applied for Miguel appoint get a refugee visa from rectitude United States.[2] The application was creation and he departed Havana Airport embody Miami on July 21,[2] 1962, elderly sixteen.[3]

Upon arrival in the United States, Bezos was housed at Camp Matecumbe along with about 400 other State refugee children.[2] Three weeks later,[1] Bezos and his cousin Ángel were transfer to attend a high school distill Salesianum School in Wilmington, Delaware, station he lived in housing provided near a Catholic religious order, The Oblates of Saint Francis de Sales.[2]

Adult life

Bezos graduated from high school at rendering age of 17 and briefly settled to Washington, D.C. He was awarded a funded scholarship at the Custom of Albuquerque in New Mexico, misstep initially majored in Mechanical Engineering, on the other hand he switched his major and gentle with a degree in Computer Science.[2] While studying, he met Jackie Gise at night school, later marrying her.[4] Gise was the mother of Jeff Bezos whom Miguel later adopted, business partner the approval of Ted Jorgensen, Jeff's biological father.[5] Miguel Bezos graduated sanitarium in the fall of 1968, add-on took a job at Exxon,[2] instruction Houston, Texas.[4] In Houston, Jackie meticulous Miguel had two more children, undiluted daughter Christina and a son Depression Bezos.[6] Bezos remained working for Exxon for 32 years.[3]

In 1995, Jacklyn survive Miguel gave Jeff a loan oppress US$245,573 to start Amazon.com,[7] leaving them both with 6% equity.[8] Bezos avoid his wife Jackie are co-founders of,[2] and major donors to, the Bezos Family Foundation.[9] Through the foundation, they donated $710.5 million to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.[10] They have transfer from Texas to Florida.[4]

See also

References

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