Jeff Bezos

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/jeff-bezos

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the graduation?Graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with an engineering degree
2. What is the amazon's founding year?Founded Amazon in mid-1994
3. Who is Jeff Bezos?Jeff Bezos is a businessman who started Amazon, the biggest online store in the world. He was born in 1964 and studied engineering at Princeton University.
4. How did Jeff Bezos come up with the idea for Amazon?While driving across the country in 1994, he thought of an online bookstore that could offer many books. He started Amazon as a place where people could buy books online.

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