Orin Smith
Running Head: JEFFREY BEZOS
Jeffrey Bezos
Shawn Botson
Colorado Technical University Online
Principles of Business: MGM110-0701B-43
Instructor: Cheryl Bernier
March 15, 2007
Abstract
Jeffrey Bezos is the Chief Executive Officer of Amazon.com. The CEO of all companies is the top manager that a board of directors votes for to run the corporation. (Business Essentials, 2005, p. 525)
I buy movies and television shows from Amazon.com all the time and download them onto my computer. For example, my favorite television show is Prison Break and sometimes I miss an episode. If this happens than I can just go to Amazon.com and purchase any episode I want as long as it has already aired. This is very convenient since the full season of any television series is not sold in stores until every episode of the entire season has aired on television. Most television series cost only $1.99 per episode which is a very good deal. After they are fully downloaded onto my computer I can burn the episode(s) onto a DVD and watch them anywhere.
Since I buy products from this company so often and I just heard about them not too long ago, I thought that it would be interesting to find out some more information about Amazon.com and how Jeffrey Bezos has been so successful in running the company as the Chief Executive Officer.
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Jeffrey Bezos
Jeffrey Preston Bezos was born on January 12th, 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Bezos always loved school especially anything to do with science and computers. When Bezos lived with his parents and went to school he built a laboratory in his parent's garage so he could experiment with various science projects. After high school, Bezos attended Princeton University with a goal to achieve a degree in physics. Later on he decided that he was more interested in computers and he graduated with a degree in computer...
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