Milan, 15 August. (LaPresse) – Jackie Bezos, mother of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has died at the age of 78. Bezos himself announced the news in an Instagram post quoting the announcement by the Bezos Family Foundation. As reported by the New York Times, she and her husband invested approximately $245,000 in Amazon in 1995, the online bookstore founded by their son in 1994. In 2000, during a trade show in New York, Bezos used his mother's online wish list to show how easy it was to order gifts on the website. The list included a Casio camera and Motorola walkie-talkies. Today, the group is worth $2.47 billion on Wall Street.
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