13 Jeff Bezos
杰夫·贝佐斯，电子商务的探索者
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01 Under his guidance（指导）, Amazon.com became the largest retailer on the World Wide Web and a top model for Internet sales.
在他的指导之下，亚马逊成为了互联网上最大的零售商，塑造了电商的成功模板。
02 Bezos's personal wealth is estimated（估价）to be US$32.3 billion, ranking him number 17 on the Forbes list of billionaires.
贝佐斯个人的财富估计为323亿美元，在福布斯亿万富翁排行榜上名列17位。
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Perrsonal life
Bezos was born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen in Albuquerque. As a child, he spent summers at his grandfather's ranch in southern Texas, “laying pipe, vaccinating（接种疫苗）cattle and fixing windmills. Bezos often displayed scientific interests and technological proficiency（熟练）. He attended Princeton University, intending to study physics, but soon returned to his love of computers and graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Engineeringinelectrical engineering and computer science.
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1964年，贝佐斯出生于美国新墨西哥州阿尔布奎克，他是一个私生子。母亲带着他嫁给了米盖尔·贝佐斯，他跟随母亲进入了这个家庭，并用了继父的姓。外祖父培养了他对科学的热爱。贝佐斯时常在德克萨斯其外祖父的农场度过暑假。16岁时，他就能安装风车，使用弧焊机。进了爱因斯坦晚年曾执教过的普林斯顿大学，他的兴趣转向了计算机，1986年，获普林斯顿大学电气工程与计算机科学学士学位，以优异成绩毕业，并成为美国大学优秀生联谊会会员。
Career
After graduating from Princeton in 1986, Bezos worked on Wall Street in the computer science field. He next worked at Bankers Trust, where he became vice-president. Later on he also worked on Internet-enabled business opportunities at D. E. Shaw & Co.
Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 after making a cross-country drive from New York to Seattle, writing up the Amazon business plan on the way. He initially（最初）set up the company in his garage.
In 2000, Bezos founded Blue, a human startup company, partially as a result of his fascination（魅力）with space travel, including an early interest in developing “space hotels, amusement parks, colonies and small cities for 2 million or 3 million people orbiting the Earth.”
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1986年，贝佐斯从美国名校普林斯顿大学毕业，很快就进入纽约一家新成立的高科技公司。两年后，贝佐斯跳槽到一家纽约银行家信托公司，管理价值2500亿美元资产的电脑系统，25岁时便成了这家银行信托公司有史以来最年轻的副总裁。
1994年，一次偶然的发现让他踏上了电商创业的征途。贝佐斯用30万美元的启动资金，在西雅图郊区租来的车库中创建了全美第一家网络零售公司——Amazon.com。
据《华尔街日报》报道，由互联网行业亿万富翁贝佐斯资助的一艘无人驾驶宇宙飞船在前不久的试飞过程中突然失控，让贝佐斯秘密资助蓝源开发航天飞船的事情曝光。
Recognition
He was named Time magazine's Person of the Year in 1999. In 2008, he was selected by U.S. News & World Report as one of America's best leaders. Bezos was awarded an honorary（荣誉的）doctorate in Science and Technology from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008. In 2011, the Economist gave Bezos and Gregg Zehr an Innovation Award for the Amazon Kindle. In 2012, Bezos was named Businessperson of The Year by Fortune. As of July 2014, according to Forbes The World's Billionaires List, Bezos is listed as the 17th wealthiest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $32.3 billion.
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1999年杰夫·贝佐斯当选《时代》周刊年度人物，是美国《商业周刊》评选的“互联网时代最具影响力的25人”之一。
妙语连珠
Tomorrow, in a very real sense, your life—the life you author from scratch（白手起家）on your own—begins.
How will you use your gifts? What choices will you make?
Will inertia be your guide or will you follow your passions?
Will you follow dogma（教条）or will you be original?
Will you choose a life of ease or a life of service and adventure?
Will you wilt under criticism or will you follow your convictions（坚定的信仰）?
Will you bluff it out when you're wrong or will you apologize?
Will you guard your heart against rejection or will you act when you fall in love?
Will you play it safe or will you be a little bit swashbuckling（虚张声势）?
When it's tough, will you give up or will you be relentless（虚张声势）?
Will you be a cynic or will you be a builder?
Will you be clever at the expense of others or will you be kind?
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杰夫·贝佐斯一直相信每一个人都有自己的天赋，每一个人的存在都代表着宇宙空间中的一种唯一。然而令我经常都在深思的是，既然我们都是这样的独特，又为何偏偏要去模仿和畸变成拥有同类“基因”的人呢？为什么我们中的很多人都不愿意去追逐属于自己的理想，或者不能为此奋斗一生呢，抑或者一生都是在自欺欺人地辩解？“追随内心的热情”是贝佐斯给精英人才的建议。他认为，是一个个的选择最终塑造了我们的人生。