The founder of Amazon | Jeff bezos

 Jeff Bezos-

        Jeff Bezos is a founder, chairman, president and chief executive officer (C.E.O) of Amazon.com and owner of 'The Washington Post'. E-Commerce pioner and Technology Entrepreneur.

When Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994, the age of the online-only retailer appeared to be far off.

Life story of Jeff Bezos-

         Jeff Bezos was born on 12th January 1964 in New Mexico and raised in Houston, Texas United States. Jeff Bezos had a huge love of computers and he studied computer science and electrical engineering at Princeton University.

In 1986 after graduation Jeff Bezos start working in a fin-tech telecommunications start-up, Fitel, where he was given the task to build a network for international trade. Later he joins the banking industry when he become a product manager at bankers trust and he worked there from 1988 to 1990. In 1990 he joined a newly founded hedge fund, D.E. Shaw & Co and worked there until 1994 and become D.E. shaw's senior vice-president at the age of 30. In 1994 Jeff Bezos advantageous job in the investment firm to open amazon.com, an online bookstore that became success stories of all time.

In 1990 bezos left his job at D.E. Shaw and decided to start an online bookstore. On 5th July 1994, he founded amazon in his garage after writing in his business plan while travelling from New York to Seattle. Jeff Bezos named his new company Amazon because the name begins with the letter A, which is at the beginning of the alphabet and after the Amazon River in South America. He borrowed approx. $300,000 from his parents and invested in Amazon. In the first few months after starting his new venture, Bezos thought that there is a 70% chance that Amazon would fail or go bankrupt. The initial success of the company was rapid. With almost no promotional activity, Amazon.com sold books across the United States and in 45 other countries within the first 30 days. In the first two months, sales reached $20,000 a week, growing faster than Bezos and team had anticipated. Originally Amazon was an online bookstore, but Jeff had always planned to expand to other products. Bezos diversified into the online sale of music CDs and video and later also expanded to clothes,electronics, toys and more through major retail partnerships. In the late 90s, while many dot.com companies went bust, Amazon keeps flourishing with yearly sales that jumped from $510,000 in 1995 to over $17 billion in 2011. On 1st February 2018, Amazon reported it's highest ever profit with quarterly earnings of $2 billion.

Net Worth-

On 27th July 2017, Jeff Bezos become the world's richest person when his estimated net worth increased to just over $90 billion. On 24th November 2017, Bezos wealth surpassed $100 billion for the first time and he was formally become the wealthiest person in the world by Forbes on 6th March 2018, with a net worth of $112 billion. In July 2018 Jeff Bezos was named the "richest man in modern history" by forbes after his net worth increased to $150 billion. In August 2020, according to Forbes, he had a net worth exceeding $200 billion. In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, Bezos's wealth grew by approximately $24 billion.

On February 2, 2021, Bezos announced that he would step down as the CEO of Amazon sometime in the third quarter of 2021, and transition into the role of executive chairman. He is due to be replaced as CEO by Andy Jassy, the chief of Amazon's cloud computing division.

Quotes:-

"If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.”

Sundar pichai | The C.E.O. of Google |

 

CEO of Google

         Sundar Pichai was born in Madurai, in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, on July 12, 1972. He belongs to a lower middle-class family and had never experienced the luxury of watching television or traveling by car in his childhood. His father Raghunath Pichai  worked as an Electrical Engineer in General Electric in Chennai and therefore, the family lived in the city, at Ashok Nagar. His father was the manager of a factory that made components for electrical objects. The stories of the work challenges faced by his father always inspired Pichai.His mother, Lakshmi, was a Stenographer until she gave birth to her kids. Sundar has a younger brother as well.

         Google surprised the world by announcing the appointment of a new CEO on 10th August 2015. It became a proud moment for the Indian community to see an Indian-born make it to the list of the CEOs in the Tech. Industry. Sundar Pichai, a name now well-known across the globe has had his share of struggle before making it to the top.

            Pichai saw technology in his hands at the age of 12 when his father bought a land line phone for the house. He had an extraordinary skill of memorizing and remembering numbers.  He could keep in mind all the numbers he dialed. Pichai was not only good with numbers whilst at school but also the captain of his high school cricket team.

            Sundar completed his Class X at Jawahar Vidyalaya, at Ashok Nagar and completed the Class 12 from Vana Vani school at Chennai. Pichai then graduated in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur.He completed his MS (Masters in Science) in Material sciences and Engineering from Stanford University and later  went on to complete an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

               Sundar Pichai worked for McKinsey & Company in management consulting during his pre-Google days. He also contributed his talents in engineering and product management at Applied Materials.

            Pichai worked in engineering and product management at Applied Materials and in management consulting at McKinsey & Company. Pichai joined Google in 2004, where he led the product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google's client software products, including Google Chrome and Chrome OS, as well as being largely responsible for Google Drive. He went on to oversee the development of other applications such as Gmail and Google Maps.

             Pichai joined Google in 2004 and is known to have worked on popular products like Toolbar. He also has worked on other products Google Gears and Google Pack, before Chrome was launched.However, the success of the Toolbar helped Pichai pace his career. Google noticed that the toolbar increased the user searches. This eventually led to the start of Google Chrome; Google’s very own browser

             Pichai has led product management and also found Google’s client software products such as Google Chrome and Chrome OS. Pichai is the man responsible for driving Google’s Chrome OS and browser to the fore.  He was appointed as VP of product development in 2008. He introduced Chrome browser to the world. Soon it was followed by Chrome OS in 2009. Pichai came more into the public limelight at Google presentations from 2008 and very soon became a well-known face of Google. He was the Senior VP of Chrome and apps by 2012.

             It was in 2013 that Pichai became a well-known personality worldwide. He stepped into the shoes of Andy Rubin as the overseer of all Android related products, almost after a decade at Google.

              In 2015, Sundar was announced to be the new CEO of Google as their well-known leader, Larry Page was retiring from google to take up the reigns at Alphabet, Inc. their new holding company. Earlier that year, he was announced to be the Product Chief at Google by Larry Page himself. 

He was also a running contender for the post of Microsoft's new CEO, a job that ultimately went to Satya Nadella.

The great Indian Scientist Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam.

 

The great Indian Scientist Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam.

             Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam was an Indian aerospace scientist who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. He was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu and studied physics and aerospace engineering.

             A.P.J Abdul Kalam (15th October 1931- 27 July 2015) born in Rameswaram into a Tamil Muslim family in Tamil Nadu itself. He came from a humble background where his father, a boat owner and mother, a housewife brought him up. He used to distribute newspaper after the completion of his school so that he could support his father. What he had was a yearning to learn more. He was in Ramanathapuram Schwartz Matriculation School and later he went to Saint Joseph’s College from where he became a physics graduate. In 1955 he went to Madras to pursue his studies further in Madras.

               For the Indian army, A.P.J Abdul Kalam designed a mini helicopter. Major breakthrough came when he was transferred to ISRO catering to the project of SLV-III. Being the representative of TBRL, he acted as the representative of Smiling Buddha which was the first nuclear test to be conducted. In 1980s, his extensive research work and development brought many accolades and laurel to his name. From July 1992 onwards he served as the Chief Scientific Adviser to the then Prime Minister. His role in the field of technological and political field is remarkable during the nuclear tests of Pokhran-II.

              A.P.J Abdul Kalam won the election of President in 2002 by surpassing mammoth votes. His term as President was from 25 July 2002 to 25 July 2007. He was backed by the parties of National Congress and Samajwadi Party. It was an easy victory for him and he became the 11th President of India. He received the highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna and the third person to do so. Occupying the seat of Rashtrapati Bhavan he was indeed the first bachelor and the first scientist as well. However, in 2012 he declined for the role of President for the second term.

              After retiring from the post of scientific adviser in 1999, his main mission was to interact with as many as 100,000 students. He felt the joy in meeting with the youth of the country particularly the high school students. He found a way to ignite their mind for the development of India.

              He was delivering a lecture on 27th July 2015 at IIM Shillong where at 6:30 pm he suffered a heart attack massively and critical his condition was, he was shifted to Bethany Hospital where thereafter, he died of cardiac arrest.