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Business lessons from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin and CEO of Amazon. [Reuters, Joshua Roberts]

Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon – the world’s largest online retailer – recently reclaimed his spot as the world’s richest man with a record Sh20 trillion net worth.

The 57-year-old founded the e-commerce giant in 1994 from his garage in Seattle, US and stepped down as CEO this year to be executive chairman. Amazon was first an online bookstore before expanding into a global superstore that sells almost every imaginable product.

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