Jeff Bezos’ Visionary Work: Amazon.com & Spaceship for Tourists
In 1990, online shopping was unheard of. That was when the first World Wide Web server and browser were created. Five years later, on July 1995, the first book on Amazon.com was sold. By 2012, people seem to forget that just 18 years ago, shopping is limited to geographical location. One cannot buy a trinket from somebody across the globe within minutes.
In 1999, Time magazine named Jeffrey “Jeff” Preston Bezos Person of the Year as recognition of Amazon.com’s success in popularizing online shopping. And indeed, he has attained success. For all his hard work, Jeff Bezos is presently a multibillionaire and in 2011, Amazon’s shares have jumped by 55% spurring Forbes to tag the phenomenon as “defying gravity.”
The seed of all these came from what Bezos termed as “regret minimization framework,” which he described as his effort to fend off regret for not staking a claim in the Internet gold rush. He was on a cross-country drive from New York to Seattle in 1994 when he wrote the Amazon business plan. Amazon was initially set up in his garage.
But what is truly amazing with Jeff Bezos is that he continuous to work hard to stake a claim in being a successful pioneer. Having achieved success in online shopping, he is now turning his sights on even greater frontier: space.
In 2000, Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin, a human spaceflight startup company to help enable “anybody to go into space.” The company aims to make space travel available to paying customers. And just last year, or eleven years after its inception, Blue Origin made news because it lost an unmanned prototype vehicle during a short-hop test flight. Although it is considered a setback, it has shown how far Jeff Bezos has come in making way towards conquering this new frontier market. He has already made prototypes for vehicles that would soon allow regular folks to go into space.
Within the next few years, going into space for vacations would be an option for stressed office workers. With the visionary Jeff Bezos at the helm of Blue Origin, that day may come sooner than we think. Who knows, you might even find yourself taking coffee breaks in space after a few hours of hard work in the office.
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