"I read 'The High Frontier' in high school. I read it multiple times, and I was already primed. As soon as I read it, it made sense to me. It seemed very clear that planetary surfaces were not the right place for an expanding civilization inside our solar system."
American entrepreneur who founded Amazon in 1994 and later served as its chief executive before becoming executive chairman. He also founded the aerospace company Blue Origin. His work has been central to the growth of e-commerce and cloud computing.