Miguel Angel "Mike" Bezos Perez was born on September 29,1945 and is a Cuban-American billionaire and philanthropist who provided the initial investment to launch Amazon.
10 Facts About Miguel Bezos
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Miguel Bezos is a co-founder of the Bezos Family Foundation.
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Miguel Bezos is the adoptive father of Jeff Bezos, the father of Mark Bezos and the husband of Jackie Bezos.
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Miguel Bezos's father, originally from Spain, owned a lumber mill and his mother was a part-time shopkeeper, selling fabric and infant clothing.
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Bezos' family applied for Miguel to get a refugee visa from the United States.
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Miguel Bezos graduated from high school at the age of 17 and briefly relocated to Washington, DC He was awarded a funded scholarship at the University of Albuquerque in New Mexico, he initially majored in Mechanical Engineering, but he switched his major and graduated with a degree in Computer Science.
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Gise was the mother of Jeff Bezos whom Miguel later adopted, with the approval of Ted Jorgensen, Jeff's biological father.
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Miguel Bezos graduated university in the fall of 1968, and took a job at Exxon, in Houston, Texas.
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In Houston, Jackie and Miguel had two more children, a daughter, Christina, and a son, Mark Bezos.
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In 1995, Jacklyn and Miguel Bezos gave Jeff a loan of US$245,573 to start Amazon.