In fact, before 2022, Bezos ranked first in the Forbes list for four consecutive years from 20 18 to 20021year.
Bezos' wealth decreased in 2020, because some wealth was given 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 legend. Let's look at some things about Bezos:
1. Bezos resume:
Bezos was born in 1964 65438+ 10/2. He was the first entrepreneur to open an online bookstore. After three years of operation, the bookstore began to sell more products. Now the Amazon he founded sells all kinds of products. Musk, who ranked first in Forbes in 2022, owns a space exploration company. In fact, Bezos also has a space exploration company called Blue Origin, which he founded in 2000, and Bezos also invested in several 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 small family and serve more families. Bezos sells books. His books nourish people's spiritual world.
2. Bezos's life experience:
Bezos' parents had him when they were dating in high school. When his mother was pregnant with him, 16 years old, his father was only 18. But with the help of parents, his parents got married and gave birth to Bezos.
Later, Bezos married himself and had three children, two sons and a daughter, but Bezos also adopted an orphan, a girl, in Hunan, China.
20 19 Bezos divorced at the age of 54.
Bezos' mother is great, but his grandfather is even greater. Grandpa started as a staff member of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and later he had his own farm. Bezos grew up on his grandfather's farm.
Bezos' mother conceived him at the age of 16 and gave birth to him at the age of 17. At that time, she was expelled from high school, but his grandfather promised his mother to go to the hospital to sign for her to give birth to him. His grandfather and his grandfather also signed for his parents in the matchmaking agency instead of his parents. This is what many people can't do. Accept children unconditionally.
When Bezos was three years old, his father said he couldn't support them. Bezos' parents often had conflicts when he was young, and finally they divorced when he was three years old.
Bezos' childhood was actually full of trauma, but he was not defeated by trauma, but healed himself with trauma, so we should not blame our parents, take the past trauma as a foil, thank the trauma and move forward bravely.
Despite this, Bezos' mother kept on 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.
Especially Bezos' grandfather is very kind to him. His grandfather has a farm. As long as there is a holiday, Bezos will go to his grandfather's farm, give Bezos a lot of help in many ways, teach Bezos a lot of principles in dealing with people, and do a lot of creative things with Bezos. At the same time, besides working, he also read a lot of books on his grandfather's farm.
Bezos has studied well since he was a child, whether he is a schoolmaster or a monitor. When he was at school, he set up his own dream association and brought his younger brothers and sisters in.
When Bezos/Kloc-was 0/8 years old, he was sent to Princeton University, an undergraduate university. This university is Einstein's alma mater. Einstein studied, lived and worked in this school for many years.
Bezos' original dream in life was to become a physicist, but by chance, he soon found that his classmates were much better than him in physics. He didn't think he would make great achievements in physics, so he switched to studying computers. This is a major 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 well and achieved the position of vice president of the finance company all the way.
By 1994, when Bezos was 30 years old, he found that the Internet was developing very fast, 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 30 to start a company in Seattle. His stepfather gave him 300 thousand to start a company.
1On July 5th, 995, he formally established his own Internet company to sell books in the underground garage, and Bezos' Internet company was also formally established in the basement. When he first sold books, there were no books. His book is still in someone else's bookstore. After he got the order, his employees went to the bookstore to buy it and send it to customers.
The hardest part is actually in the beginning Bezos worked very hard in the first three years of his business. At that time, he also used the loopholes in the bookstore to save costs. For example, the bookstore can get a 60% discount on ten books, but he is worried that it will be troublesome to buy ten books and the other nine books will not be sold. So Bezos bought one book, chose the other nine books, and also enjoyed this discount. This loophole was drilled for a while, but it was also chaotic. However, because his bookstore was optimistic, although he did not make money in the first three years, he went public three years later and began to make a fortune after listing.
Later, Bezos hired a professional manager and invited outstanding authors to the company for management training.
Despite the professional management, the company has been on the right track, but Bezos' company is not very smooth. It has been losing money for 20 years and it didn't start to make a profit until 20 15. At this time, Bezos was 5 1 year old. By the time he was 54 years old, that is, in 2065, 438+09, he became the richest man in the world and ranked first in Forbes list. Bezos' persistence is very rare and worth learning.
Where is the money? Money is 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 various problems. Bezos solved the big problem, which is the problem of the whole world. Money is only his by-product.
3. What is worth learning and enlightening from Bezos?
1) The divorce of four-year-old parents is a great trauma for Bezos. But because Bezos didn't blame his parents, he healed his wounds 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, my own motivation to learn, and I went forward bravely. This is worth our thinking and learning.
2) Choose bravely at important moments in life. At the age of 65,438+08, he gave up physics to study computers. At the age of 30, I gave up my high-paying job as a vice president of Wall Street, bravely left my self-made business, took risks, stepped out of my comfort zone and did what I wanted to do. The correct way to start a business from scratch is also worth learning.
3) Persistence, even if the company continues to lose money for 20 years, it still insists on operating. Especially in the first three years of starting a business, he experienced numerous difficulties, even the warehouse was burned down, but he always insisted that this spirit of persistence was not easy.
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 if Bezos's company is losing money, it can still get the support of shareholders to continue.
5) Dare to innovate. Do subversive innovation. Revolutionary and destructive innovation, abandoning the past. The first subversion was from 1995 to 2000, and Bezos subverted the bookstore in five years. The way to buy books is from the entity to the internet, and the books are delivered home. You can also buy books first and pay after you receive them. The second subversion was the subversion of offline retail in 2000. I sell many other things besides books. 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 very emotional and couldn't help but want to share the recorded words with you.