Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon. He was born in 1964 in New Mexico and had a normal childhood, spending summers on his grandfather's farm where he learned the value of hard work. He showed early signs of ambition and intelligence, such as being made captain of his pee wee football team for his leadership. He graduated from Princeton and worked on Wall Street before starting Amazon in his garage in 1994. Although Amazon struggled early on, Bezos had a long term vision which has led the company to immense success through expanding beyond books to become an online retail giant. Bezos also founded Blue Origin to advance space exploration. He attributes his success to strategies like thinking long term, focusing on things that won't