The Visionary Behind Amazon's Empire Jeffrey Preston Bezos, born on January 12, 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is an American entrepreneur, investor, and space enthusiast best known as the founder of Amazon.com. Starting his career in finance on Wall Street, Bezos left a high-paying job in 1994 to launch an online bookstore from his garage-a risky move that would change the world of commerce forever. Under his leadership, Amazon evolved from a small book-selling website into one of the larges