Jeff Bezos - AllThingsD

Chairman, President and CEO
Amazon.com

Jeff Bezos is one of the Internet's true pioneers and visionaries, creating one of the Web's greatest brands and one of its most enduring companies. He founded Amazon in 1994, using his theories about leveraging the Web to move goods around more efficiently. While the company has had some bumps along the way and has morphed its businesses relentlessly, it has defied its critics and has become the most significant online retailer in the world. Mr. Bezos has long been a geek, using computer science in all his jobs, such as working on technically sophisticated quantitative hedge funds on Wall Street for D.E. Shaw & Co. He also led the development of computer systems that helped manage more than $250 billion in assets for Bankers Trust Company. He graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University in 1986.

Posts With Jeff Bezos

eBay Is the Most Recent Bay Area Transplant to Seek Access to Seattle’s Talent Pool

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 12 at 6:00 am PT

The e-commerce giant has joined a growing list of companies willing to brave the rain in order to gain access to a deep pool of technology engineers in Seattle.

One in 124 Seattleites Uses a Kindle Fire

John Paczkowski in News on January 5 at 5:01 am PT

And 20 percent of them live within a mile of Amazon headquarters.

Resolutions for 2012 (Comic)

Nitrozac and Snaggy in Voices on December 30, 2011 at 2:30 pm PT

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.

News Byte

Kindle Fire Heats Up Holiday for Amazon

Lauren Goode in Commerce on December 29, 2011 at 8:50 am PT

Amazon said this holiday season was the best ever for its Kindle, with more than four million Kindle devices sold in the month of December. The company also said that its new tablet, the $199 Kindle Fire, has become the best-selling and most-gifted product across all of Amazon.com since its introduction to the market 13 weeks ago. Amazon rarely releases unit sales numbers of its e-readers, but said earlier this month that it had sold more than one million Kindles a week for three consecutive weeks.

Workday Is Looking for Bankers to Help It Go IPO in 2012

Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 23, 2011 at 4:22 am PT

The wait begins for one of the most anticipated IPOs of 2012.

Roadshow: CEO Pincus Not Selling Shares in Upcoming Zynga IPO

Kara Swisher in News on November 29, 2011 at 10:01 pm PT

While he has recently been portrayed as Mr. Potter of Silicon Valley, it looks like the online gaming leader will not get greedy in the IPO.

Amazon “Primes” Pump for Loyalty

Stu Woo, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Commerce on November 13, 2011 at 11:30 pm PT

As Amazon.com Inc. battles traditional retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and digital rivals like Apple Inc.’s iTunes store, the company is raising its bet on its Amazon Prime customer-loyalty program.

Tech Leaders Make Forbes’ Most Powerful People List

Tricia Duryee in Enterprise on November 5, 2011 at 11:21 am PT

Forbes has compiled a list of the 70 most powerful individuals, and along with some of the world’s leading politicians and religious leaders, tech leaders made a strong showing.

Second Life Founder Tries Bringing Aspects of the Virtual World to Real Life

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on November 1, 2011 at 5:02 am PT

Coffee & Power, started by the founder of Second Life, launches an online marketplace that allows people to buy and sell small tasks — or to meet in person at a company-owned cafe in San Francisco.

Why Amazon Is Happy to Burn Money on the Kindle Fire

Peter Kafka in Media on October 26, 2011 at 3:00 am PT

The company won’t ever talk numbers, but it made it quite clear: It’s going to sell its new tablet at a loss so it can sell more stuff in the long run.