Amazon founder Bezos
In fact, Bezos ranked first in Forbes list for four consecutive years from 218 to 221 before 222.
in 22, Bezos' wealth decreased a little, because he gave some wealth to his wife because of divorce.
In the past few years, countless enterprises have encountered many problems, especially in terms of wealth growth, but Bezos' Amazon has increased.
I have to say that Bezos is a legendary figure. Let's take a look at some information about Bezos:
1. Bezos' resume:
Bezos was born on January 12, 1964. He was the first entrepreneur to open an online bookstore. After three years, the bookstore began to sell more products. Now the products sold by Amazon he founded are all-encompassing. Musk, who ranked first in Forbes in 222, has a space exploration company. In fact, Bezos also has a space exploration company called Blue Origin, which he founded in 2, and Bezos also invested in many companies.
Bezos's northern friendship is in Cancer, and his mission in this life is to come for his family. It is his life lesson to manage his own small family and serve more families. Bezos sells books, and his books nourish people's spiritual world.
2. Bezos' life experience:
Bezos' parents had him when they talked about love in high school. At that time, his mother was pregnant with him at the age of 16, and his father was only 18. But with the help of his parents, his parents got married and gave birth to Bezos.
Later, after his own marriage, Bezos had three children, two sons and a daughter, but Bezos also adopted an orphaned child, a girl, in Hunan, China.
Bezos divorced at the age of 54 in 219.
Bezos' mother is great, but his grandfather is even more great. Grandpa started as an IAEA staff member and later had his own farm. Bezos grew up on his grandfather's farm.
Bezos's mother was pregnant with him at the age of 16, and gave birth to him at the age of 17. At that time, she was in high school, and the school expelled her, but his grandfather vouched for his mother and went to the hospital to sign for her to give birth to him. His grandfather and his grandfather also signed for his parents to register for marriage in the marriage agency instead of his parents. This is what many people can't do. Unconditional acceptance of children.
When Bezos was three years old, his father said that he was unable to support them. Bezos' parents often had conflicts when he was young, and finally his parents divorced when he was three years old.
Bezos' childhood was actually full of trauma, but he was not knocked down by the trauma, but healed himself with it, so we should not blame our parents, take the past trauma as a foil, thank the trauma and go forward bravely.
Nevertheless, Bezos' mother persisted in studying and got a university degree at the age of forty.
At the age of four, Bezos' mother remarried and gave birth to a younger brother and a younger sister, but Bezos' stepfather was very kind to him.
In particular, Bezos' grandfather is very kind to him. His grandfather has a farm. As long as he has a holiday, Bezos goes to his grandfather's farm, giving him a lot of help in many ways, teaching Bezos a lot of principles in dealing with people, and taking Bezos to do a lot of creative things together. At the same time, he also reads a lot of books on his grandfather's farm besides working.
Bezos has been studying very well since he was a child. He is a schoolmaster and a monitor. When he was at school, he founded his own dream association and brought his younger brothers and sisters into it.
When Bezos was 18 years old, he was sent to Princeton University, an undergraduate university. This university is Einstein's alma mater. Einstein once studied, lived and worked in this school for many years.
Bezos originally dreamed of becoming a physicist, but by chance, he soon found that his classmates were much better than him in physics. He felt that he would not make great achievements in physics, so he changed to study computers. This is a big decision he made himself.
When I graduated from Bezos University at the age of 22, I worked in an Internet finance company. The company performed very well and achieved the position of vice president of the finance company all the way.
By the time Bezos was 3 years old in 1994, he found that the Internet was developing very rapidly, especially the number of people surfing the Internet was growing very fast. So he decided to start his own Internet company, did a lot of research, and finally decided to sell books.
Bezos left Wall Street at the age of 3 to start a company in Seattle. His stepfather gave him 3 thousand to start a company.
On July 5th, 1995, he formally established his Internet company to sell books in the underground garage. Bezos' Internet company was formally established in the basement. When he first sold books, he didn't have any books. His books were still in other people's bookstores. After he had an order, his employees went to the bookstore to buy them and send them to customers.
Everything is difficult before it is easy. Bezos had a hard time in the first three years when he started his business. At that time, he also used loopholes in bookstores to save costs. For example, bookstores could get a 6% discount on ten books, but he was worried that it would be troublesome to buy ten other nine books, so Bezos bought a book that didn't sell the other nine books, and also enjoyed this discount. This loophole was exploited for a while but it was also chaotic. However, because his bookstore is optimistic, although he didn't make money in the first three years, he went public three years later, and began to get rich after listing.
Later, Bezos hired professional managers and invited excellent to outstanding authors to the company to give management training.
despite the professional management, the company is on the right track, but Bezos' company has not been very smooth, and it has been losing money for 2 years, and it didn't start to make a profit until 215. At this time, Bezos was 51 years old. By the time he was 54 years old, he became the richest man in the world in 219 and ranked first in Forbes. Bezos' persistence is rare and worth learning.
where is the money? Money is in the problem. Solve small problems, earn small money, solve big problems, make big money, solve short-term problems, earn short-term money, solve human problems and earn money from all mankind. Money is wrapped in all kinds of questions. Bezos solved the big problem, which is the problem of the whole world. Money is only his by-product.
3. What Bezos deserves to learn and inspire us:
1) Divorce at the age of four is a lot of trauma to Bezos' childhood. But because Bezos did not blame his parents, he healed himself with trauma and moved forward unswervingly. When I was a child, I read a lot of books under the guidance of my grandfather, which lit up his future. When I was in high school, I had my own dream of life, and I had my own driving force to learn and moved forward bravely. This is worth our thinking and learning.
2) Choose bravely at an important juncture in life. At the age of 18, I gave up physics to study computer science. At the age of 3, I gave up my high-paying job as a vice president of Wall Street. I bravely left and started my business from scratch. I took risks and stepped out of my comfort zone to do what I wanted. The right thing to do and start my business from scratch is also worth learning.
3) Persistence, even if the company has been losing money for 2 years, it still insists on operating. Especially in the first three years of starting a business, he experienced numerous difficulties and even the warehouse was burned down, but he always insisted that this spirit of persistence was very difficult.
4) focus on the future. Think about the future and study the spirit of the future. Bezos spends two days a week thinking about the future, coming up with a plan and making a plan on how to create the future. Just like this, even though Bezos' company is losing money, it can still get the support of shareholders to keep going.
5) Dare to innovate. Do subversive innovation. Revolutionary and destructive innovation, abandoning the past. The first subversion was that Bezos subverted the bookstore in five years from 1995 to 2. The way to buy books was from entity to online, delivered to home, and you can buy books first and pay after receiving them. The second subversion was the subversion of offline retail in 2. Besides selling books, I also sell many other things. The third subversion is cloud computing. What he makes the most money is cloud computing.
After learning about Bezos' personal experience and growing experience, I was deeply moved and couldn't help but want to share the recorded words with you.