You most likely know of or have heard of Jeff Bezos. After all he is the man behind Amazon.com the largest retailer in the world. When you get right to it, he is the man who has revolutionized the way we shop today.
With his net worth of $109.2 Billion, even after he payed $38 Billion on Divorce Statement, Bezos is still the richest man in the world. This makes Bezos the wealthiest man on the planet and reasonable to research. 

 Even though Bezos has lived in the spotlight for more than 20 years, what he shows to the public is often a simplified and repetitive persona: he’s rich, he’s bald, he has a goofy laugh, and he’s innovative almost to a fault. There are lots of interesting facts and stories about the man that you may not know, and learning about them can help you better understand Bezos and some of his rationales.

 Here are the 10 things you didn't know about Jeff Bezos. 

1.

HIS BIRTH NAME ISN'T JEFF BEZOS.

It’s Jeffrey Preston Jorgenson. His parents got a divorce when he was just a year old; his father was a high wire unicycle performer who was not earning much of a living, and his teenage mother kicked him out. She later married Miguel Bezos, who was an immigrant from Cuba, when Jeff was four. Bezos adopted his new stepson and raised him as his own son. Jeff took his name, and he would be known as Jeff Bezos from then on.

2.

AS A CHILD, BEZOS WAS VERY CURIOUS.

He was always trying to figure out how things worked and why they did what they did. He also created his own inventions for fun and also for functionality, especially ones with a scientific and technological bent. As an example, he once created an alarm that was designed to keep his younger siblings from entering his room. He also created a science laboratory in his parents’ garage. This inclination toward experimenting would serve him very well, first as the founder of an internet startup company and then as the CEO of the retail giant.

3.

BEZOS WAS ALSO AN OUTSTANDING STUDENT.

While he was enrolled in Miami Palmetto Senior High School, he was a part of the University of Florida’s Student Science Training Program and received recognition for academic excellence from The Miami Herald. He was a member of both Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi honor societies. Upon graduation, he attended Princeton University, where he completed a double degree in electrical engineering and computer science and also ranked high academically. 

4.

BEZOS DIDN'T TOOK MUCH TIME WRITING A BUSINESS PLAN.

Some startup CEOs require lots of time and space to come up with a plan for their new business, but not Bezos. He wrote the entire business plan for Amazon.com while on a car trip from New York to Seattle. It wasn’t the best of conditions to write a business plan, but it was an idea that he had to get out.

5.

BEZOS ISN'T JUST FOCUSED ON AMAZON

He’s interested in pushing technology and the world wide web forward as much as he can. What’s more, he’s always felt this way, and one of his investments almost 20 years ago is proof of that. Bezos was an early investor in Google, putting $250,000 in the company way back in 1998, long before the company was the internet ruler it is today.

6.

GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE IS SOMETHING THAT BEZOS TAKES VERY SERIOUSLY.

He is adamant that every Amazon customer be treated well, as it improves the likelihood of more business from him or her in the future. What’s more, Bezos isn’t above the menial tasks. As such, every Amazon employee — including himself — is required to work as a customer service representative for two days every two years. It helps everyone in the company — develop what it takes to provide that level of service to the company’s client.

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7.

BEZOS HAS ALWAYS HAD AN INTEREST IN SPACE TRAVEL. 

In his high school valedictorian speech, he even talked about wanting to set up human space colonies so that the Planet Earth could be kept as a nature preserve. That idea may sound a bit out there, but Bezos is still setting his sights on space travel. He founded Blue Origin in 2000 with the goal of making space flight CONVENIENT and affordable. To help further Blue Origin’s mission, Bezos works there one day each week.

8.

HE HAS TWO NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES. 

The first was in 2001, when he was in Seattle during a harrowing 6.9 magnitude earthquake. What was even more harrowing, though, was that he was nearly crushed by a tungsten ball weighing 20 pounds. He had to crawl under a table to get out of its way. The next near death experience was in 2003, when he was in a helicopter crash. The helicopter he boarded near Alpine, Texas took off, hit a strong air current, and crashed soon thereafter. Bezos suffered only a few cuts and bruises, but the experience was scary enough that he more or less avoids getting into helicopters anymore.


9.

HE INVESTED IN A 10,000 YEAR CLOCK.

If you visit www.10000yearclock.net, you’ll find a letter signed by Jeff Bezos about project describing a 10,000-year clock designed to be a symbol for long-term thinking. the clock will be completed “many years into the future” and will be located in the Sierra Diablo mountains.

10.

HE DIDN'T WANTED TO NAME HIS COMPANY AMAZON.

Initially, Bezos wanted to call the new company “Cadabra,” as in “abra cadabra,” but upon hearing it, his lawyer thought it sounded too much like “cadaver,”- sounded too much like the word for a dead body. He then changed the name to his second choice — Amazon, after the longest river in the world.