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We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.

Jeff Bezos

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Jeff Bezos
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 12
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
Jeffrey Preston Bezos
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