Bezos, Jeff
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Amazon.com has become of the most successful virtual bookstores due to the management style of Jeff Bezos. Bezos founded Amazon.com through an initial public offering on May 14, 1997. The firm's success is attributed to Bezos use of electronic retailing and making the firm a virtual community, where people can hang out.
Publication Name: Current Biography
Subject: History
ISSN: 0011-3344
Year: 1998
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Weider, Joe
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Joe Weider took up bodybuilding in his teens for self-defense against the bigger kids in his neighborhood. He founded the Weider Publications which publishes "Flex," "Shape" and "Men's Fitness." He and his brother Ben formed the International Federation of Body Builders in Montreal, Canada in 1946.
Publication Name: Current Biography
Subject: History
ISSN: 0011-3344
Year: 1998
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Nasser, Jacques
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Automobile executive Jacques Nasser was made CEO of Ford Motor Co. in 1999 after starting his career at Ford Australia in 1968 and moving to the US in 1973.
Publication Name: Current Biography
Subject: History
ISSN: 0011-3344
Year: 2001
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