Three years after Bezos founded Amazon, he took it public with an initial public offering (IPO). Bezos initially named his new company Cadabra but later changed the name to Amazon after the Amazon River in South America. In two months, sales reached $20,000 a week, growing faster than Bezos and his startup team had envisioned. With no press promotion, sold books across the United States and in 45 foreign countries within 30 days. The initial success of the company was meteoric. After inviting 300 friends to beta test the site, Bezos opened, named after the meandering South American river, on July 16, 1995. Shaw and founded Amazon in his garage on July 5, 1994, after writing its business plan on a trip from New York to Seattle. In late 1993, Bezos decided to start an online bookstore. 
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After graduation, he found work at several firms on Wall Street, including Fitel, Bankers Trust and the investment firm D.E. Bezos pursued his interest in computers at Princeton University, where he graduated summa cum laude in 1986 with a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. 
While Bezos was in high school, he worked at McDonald’s as a shortorder line cook during the breakfast shift.
The family moved to Miami, Florida, where Bezos attended Miami Palmetto High School. As a child, Jeff Bezos showed an early interest in how things work, turning his parents’ garage into a laboratory and rigging electrical contraptions around his house. It was during high school that he started his first business, the Dream Institute, an educational summer camp for fourth, fifth and sixth graders. Bezos attended River Oaks Elementary School in Houston from fourth to sixth grade. 
The family moved to Houston, Texas, where Mike worked as an engineer.At the time of his birth, his mother was a 17-year-old high school student, and his father was a bike shop owner.After Jacklyn divorced Ted, she married Cuban immigrant Miguel “Mike” Bezos in April 1968.Bezos was born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen on January 12, 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the son of Jacklyn Gise Jorgensen and Ted Jorgensen.
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