Jeff Bezos: El ascenso de Amazon y el precio del poder
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hi there, who are you?
I'm Jeff Bezos.
And what is your claim to fame?
I'm the founder of Amazon.com.
Where did you get an idea for Amazon.com?
Well, three years ago I was in New York City working for a quantitative hedge fund when I came across this startling statistic that web usage was growing at 2300% a year. So I decided I would try and find a business plan that made sense in the context of that growth. I believe that it's very easy to predict that there are going to be lots of successful companies born of the Internet.
What inspired Jeff Bezos to start Amazon?
They're going to have very large market caps and so on. I also believe that today, where we sit, it's very hard to predict who those companies are going to be. Can I have a prediction from you? Where do you think we'll be in 10 years? Well, it's very hard to give concrete predictions. But what I do know is that we are at the very beginning, not just Amazon.com, but the entire industry of e-commerce and online shopping. How does it make you feel to think that someday kids in school will read about your name like we read about Alexander Graham Bell? Well, I like to think that Amazon.com still has the opportunity to be a footnote in the history of e-commerce.
In just a few decades, a man went from having a simple company in his garage to building an empire that dominates global commerce, which influences fields such as technology, innovation and even the outside space. Jeff Bezos not only changed the way we buy, he has also become the symbol of a system that concentrates power and wealth in very few hands in an extreme way. In today's video, we go through the story behind the Amazon giant and the rise of Jeff Bezos as one of the richest men in the world. But we will also talk about what his success entails, the criticisms, the bad working conditions in the company's warehouses and how our future could be in his hands. Before becoming one of the richest men in the world, Jeff Bezos was a baby who grew up in uncertainty during his first years of life.
Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen was born in January 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His mother, Jacqueline Gies, was only 16 when she was pregnant and was still studying in high school. His biological father, Theodore Jorgensen, separated from Jackie when Jeff was very young. Why? Nobody knows. The truth is that Jacqueline had to deal with it alone. She studied in night classes and took Jeff with her. According to her own words, in one bag she carried books and in the other, diapers and pens. She did everything possible to get her son ahead, even to the point of living without services like the phone to be able to pay the rent. For this and more, Jeff has made it clear how proud and grateful he is with his mother for doing everything she did for him.
Some time later, his mother met Miguel Bezos, a Cuban immigrant who had arrived in the United States and worked at Exxon, one of the most important oil companies in the United States.
My dad was just 16 when he came to America and not with his family. He was all by himself. I have a hard time even imagining that, but his parents sent him here because under Fidel Castro, they felt like they had to, to protect him.
When Jeff was four years old, Jackie and Miguel got married. Miguel legally adopted Jeff, giving him, in addition to a new last name, a life support, a father figure to admire. Miguel was a humble man of origin and taught him that to achieve something in life, you have to fuck him every day. The family moved to Houston, Texas, and there, thanks to Miguel, Jeff began to be interested in engineering, solving problems and learning about many things, especially science, technology and space. At that time, his maternal grandparents had bought a ranch in Cotula, Texas, where Jeff spent summers helping his grandfather, learning to solve problems and repairing everything that needed to be fixed. I spent all my summers on his ranch from age four to 16.
He was incredibly self-reliant. You know, if you're in the middle of nowhere in a rural area, you don't pick up the phone and call somebody when something breaks.
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