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Mike Bezos

Engineer; father of Jeff Bezos, who took his name; early Amazon investor; co-founder of the Bezos Family Foundation.

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Also known as
Miguel A. Bezos, Miguel Bezos
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Mike Bezos came to the United States from Cuba as a teenager, studied at the University of Albuquerque and became an engineer for Exxon. He married Jackie Bezos when Jeff Bezos was four.

In February 1995 he bought Amazon shares for about $100,020, part of the roughly $245,573 that Jeff Bezos’s parents put into Amazon that year.

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father of

  • Jeff Bezos Primary record 12

    He married Jeff Bezos's mother when Jeff was four; Amazon's 1997 prospectus names both as Jeff Bezos's parents.

relative of

  • Jackie Bezos wife Scholarship & press 234

    They married when Jeff Bezos was four.

invested in

  • Amazon Feb 1995 $100,020 Primary record 12

    582,528 shares at $0.1717 each, about $100,020. With the Gise Family Trust's purchase in July 1995, Jeff Bezos's parents put in about $245,573.

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  1. Feb 1995 Mike Bezos invested in Amazon
Proof 4 sources
  1. Amazon.com, Inc. registration statement (Form S-1/A), 14 May 1997, Amazon, 14 May 1997. Primary record
    Miguel A. Bezos and Jacklyn Gise Bezos are the parents of Jeffrey P. Bezos.
    In February 1995, the Company sold 582,528 shares of Common Stock to Miguel A. Bezos at a price per share of $0.1717.
  2. Jeff Bezos: profile and interview, American Academy of Achievement. Scholarship & press
    She remarried when Jeffrey was four.
    The first initial start-up capital for Amazon.com came primarily from my parents, and they invested a large fraction of their life savings in what became Amazon.com.
  3. Person of the Year 1999: Jeff Bezos, TIME, 27 Dec 1999. Scholarship & press
    While working the night shift as a clerk at a bank, he met Jackie, who was also employed there, and fell in love. They married when Jeff was four.
  4. Jackie Bezos, 1946-2025, Bezos Family Foundation. Self-published
    founding the Bezos Family Foundation with her husband, Mike, more than 20 years ago.
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