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  1. Oct 10, 2013 · SAN FRANCISCO — Ted Jorgensen, a 69-year-old bike shop owner in Arizona, is the biological father of Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, but Jorgensen never knew until he was told late last ...

  2. 5 [a], including Jeff Bezos. Theodore Jorgensen (October 10, 1944 – March 16, 2015) was an American unicycle hockey player, the president of the world's first unicycle hockey club, and a bicycle shop owner-operator. He was the biological father of e‑commerce magnate Jeff Bezos . Jorgensen was born in Chicago to a Danish-American family that ...

  3. Jan 10, 2019 · Ted Jorgensen, a bike shop owner in Arizona, was stunned to discover Bezos was the son he last saw when he was barely 1 year old after being approached by a writer working on the biography of the CEO.

  4. Sep 11, 2023 · Bezos never knew his biological father, an unassuming Arizona bike shop owner named Ted Jorgensen. Don't Miss: Until 2016 it was illegal for retail investors to invest in high-growth startups ...

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  5. Jeff Bezos changed the way we shop forever when he founded Amazon in 1994. He later became the world’s richest man. In 2014, Inside Edition met his biologica...

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  6. Mar 12, 2020 · An Unexpected Surprise. When an unusual customer entered Ted Jorgensen’s bicycle shop in Glendale, Arizona in 2012, the elderly unicycle enthusiast could never have guessed what he was about to learn. It turned out that he was the biological father of one of the wealthiest people on the planet and he had no idea.

  7. In 2012, Brad Stone, author of "The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and Amazon," tracked down Jorgensen to a small bike repair shop in Arizona. Jorgensen was oblivious to his son's meteoric rise in ...

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