Jackie Bezos, Who Funded Her Son Jeff’s Startup, Dies at 78

(Bloomberg) Before he founded -azon.com Inc., Jackie Bezos, a violent protector of his son Jeff and a deep pocket for early childhood education died. He was 78 years old.

According to the website of Bezos Family Foundation, Bezos died on Thursday at his home in Miami. In a praise on social media, Jeff Bezos wrote that his mother was olur surrounded by many of us who loves him, and that his death watched a long fight with Lewy Body Dementia ”.

Bezos was the first to invest in Amazon with her husband Miguel. In 1995, two controls, which were $ 245,573 in 1995, supported Jeff Bezos attempt to probably fail. Of course, and with the subsequent purchases of Amazon shares – with the subsequent purchases of Amazon shares, a fortune clarified to them in 2018, which was estimated to be as large as $ 30 billion.

Starting in 2000, he financed training programs through the Double Bezos Family Foundation, decades before his sons or company started his philanthropist efforts. For years, it was the highest profile aid organization that gave a slice of the reserves created by the e-commerce giant.

“At the core of the Foundation’s work, Jackie has a belief that a meticulous, inspiring learning in the classroom and hundreds of daily interactions with adults will allow high school to activate high school education,” he says.

The “vision” says that it is behind the two-company programs-Vroom, which spreads the clues of the family through an application and other methods, and the Bezos Scholars program that chooses to be educated in 17 young American and African Leadership Development Program every year.

The foundation supported hundreds of other organizations focusing on children and young adults. In August 2024, he made 185.7 million dollars to take the largest gift to the Aspen Institute under a new center focusing on young people.

Jacklyn Marie Gise was born on December 29, 1946 in Virginia. He grew up in New Mexico, where his father Lawrence Preston Gise was a senior official in the US Atomic Energy Commission, the agency that manages US nuclear laboratories.

In the second year of high school in Albuquerque, he got pregnant by his senior Theodore Jorgensen. They married in 1963 and their son Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen was born in January. Jacklyn, known as Jackie, returned to his family and filed a divorce from Jorgensen at 17 months old.

Jorgensen, a single -wheel bike polo player who will then run a bicycle shop, admitted that he was not a particularly good father or husband. “It was really my fault, Blo Bloomberg Businessweek said for everything to Brad Stone for his store. (2013). “I never blame Jackie.” Jorgensen died in 2015.

Jackie, the new single, completed high school on the conditions brought by the executives: he did not talk to his classmates, that he did not speak to Loiter on the campus or did not participate in graduation. Later, he registered to the Community College and sought professors to allow him to bring it to the class of children who began to walk.

During this time, he worked in the book holding section of New Mexico Bank, and he met Miguel Bezos, a university student born in Cuba, who was a night officer at the bank. After the revolution of Fidel Castro, he came to the United States at the age of 16, a refugee among thousands of children sent to live in the USA. According to Stone’s book, Jackie has finally turned it down several times to see the sound of music, to go to an appointment.

Two of them got married in April 1968 and moved to Texas, where Mike became an exxon corp. They had two children: Christina in 1969 and Mark in 1970.

Jeff, who had no relationship with his biological father, was accepted by Miguel and took the surname Bezos.

Jackie wrote a house that has rushed to a house with table games, science projects and storytelling, Mark Mark Leibovich wrote Profiles in the New Imperialists (2002), Jeff Bezos and other business titans of the 21st century.

Leibovich wrote that Jackie was the “leading protective and multi -purpose support system for Jeff.

In an example, Jackie took Jeff, a curious child who separates the walls of his cradle to sleep in a 3 -year -old bed – a pilot program for talented students in a Houston primary school. The family later did the same when Pensacola moved to Florida.

“You’re not just going, Leib Leibovich said. “You don’t go gently. You’re just trying to convince people.”

He pampered Jeff’s passions, and he regularly ferries to Radio Shack to deal with homemade electronics.

Mike Bezos moved to Miami, where Jeff graduated from high school, climbed the ladder in Exxon. Mike’s work later sent him and Jackie to Norway and Colombia.

During a mission in New Jersey, Jackie, who was at that time, won a degree from Saint Elizabeth College in Morris Township (now the University of Saint Elizabeth).

After leaving the New York Hedge Fund work to find Amazon near Seattle, his family put most of his nest eggs in the company – a decision they would say that a decision was a bet to his sons rather than an internet bookstore. When Leibovich became a Wall Street lover after the first public offering of Amazon 1997, Jackie visited the newspaper dealers to find stories about his son, and then left the magazine open to that page.

In 2000, Jackie and Mike, who retired from Exxon at that time, moved to the Seattle area to be closer to Jeff’s growing family.

In Seattle, Jackie Bezos occasionally wrote in the local newspaper and defended early childhood education. O and Mike have donated a successful voter attempt against the proposal of the State Charter Schools in Washington and finally against the proposal of income tax in the state. Voters rejected the tax.

The couple often became a donor to Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, including a gift of $ 710 million outside the foundation in 2022.

They hired houses in Colorado and Texas and lived most of their time in Miami in recent years.

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