Who are Jeff Bezos' greatest influences?

It is already common for different people to become influenced by their family members. In Bezos’ case, he was influenced by his parents, his grandfather, and a school teacher that inspired him to be the person that he is right now. He also became inspired by some people in the business world like Jamie Digon. Bob Iger was a big influence on him as well.

He also became inspired because of Warren Buffet’s writing and life advice. All of these people influenced him to do things that made him the richest man in the United States right now. It is possible that in the long run, he would influence other people to be like him too.

Jeff Bezos is the world’s richest man ever and the founder of Amazon. He had the dream job at Wall Street, yet left it to make his dream of an ‘Everything store” come true. Bezos says that there were many people that he looked up to growing up like his parents, his grandfather, his school teacher who had a great role in inspiring him to be who he was.

Some of his greatest role models in the business world are, Warren Buffet, Jamie Dimon and Bob Iger. Warren Buffets writings and financial and life advices inspired Jeff right from his early 20s. Jamie Dimon, the chairman of JPMorgan Chase is in Jeff’s words a terrific executive in a very complicated company.

Bob Iger is the CEO of disney who helped disney to buy pixar with $7.6 billion. Iger and Bezos use technology to give the company an advantage and also encourages their employees to take risks which will help their creativity.

Any time someone makes it big in the world, they always have had great influences. Usually, these great influences are in the same industry as this person. For instance, singers who become famous were influenced by other great singers. Jeff Bezos is a business man and in the scientific and technological industry.

Jeff Bezos was very much into science and science fiction during his childhood and adult life. Therefore, it is no surprise that he was influenced by Star Trek and the characters on the show. However, it may seem odd that he was influence by a movie. The influence relates to his business by both being related to technology and science. Even though his greatest influence was a television show, it still helped him create Amazon.