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Oct 10, 2013 · Alistair Barr. USA TODAY. 0:04. 0:31. 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 ...
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.
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 moved to Albuquerque when he ...
- March 16, 2015 (aged 70)
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.
Sep 11, 2023 · 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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- Jeannine Mancini
Oct 10, 2013 · Remarkably, he had absolutely no clue who his son was: Jorgensen said he didn’t know who Jeff Bezos was and was baffled by my suggestion that he was the father of this famous CEO ...
