The Brains Behind the Operations: Tech Nerds, Before They Were Stars!
You're using one now to click through this gallery, but did you ever wonder about the history of the computer? Or the iPod, or Twitter? Snakkle looks back at some of America's most influential tech nerds—spitball targets who became business magnates. Remember, bullies, one day those nerds will run the world! By Brittany CarsonOnline shopping: We’ve all done it. But Jeff Bezos capitalized on it. In 1982, Bezos graduated from Miami Palmetto Senior High School in Florida, then attended Princeton University. In 1994, after writing up the business plan for an online bookstore during a cross-country road trip, he founded Amazon.com. Just like that. You can now purchase practically anything on Amazon, including a quart of wolf urine. Watch this funny TV interview from 1998 with Jeff Bezos about online shopping.
Did you know: Like so many other dot-com start-ups, Amazon.com based its initial operations in the founder’s garage. Bezos had a bell that would ring when an order was placed, but he eventually threw it out after it wouldn’t stop ringing!