The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

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Jeff Bezos Had a Record-Breaking One-Year Net Worth Jump". Fortune. Archived from the original on March 12, 2018 . Retrieved April 4, 2018. Academy, Kiddie Hawk Air. "Jeff Bezos headlines newest class of inductees into Living Legends of Aviation". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Archived from the original on April 16, 2023 . Retrieved April 16, 2023. In September 2018, Business Insider reported that Bezos was the only one of the top five billionaires in the world who had not signed the Giving Pledge, an initiative created by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett that encourages wealthy people to give away a majority of their wealth. [288] That same month, Janet Camarena, director of transparency initiatives at Foundation Center, was quoted by CNBC as having questions about Bezos's new Day 1 Fund, including the fund's structure and how exactly it will be funded. [289] As Bezos proclaimed at the time, according to numerous employees: “Developers are alchemists and our job is to do everything we can to get them to do their alchemy.”Upon graduation, he turned down job offers from Intel and Bell Labs to join a telecommunications startup called Fitel, according to the book "The Everything Store." After he quit Fitel, he went to Bankers Trust where he worked as a product manager.

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