Jeff Bezos’ father fled Cuba with 3 shirts at 16; 33 years later, he and his wife invested $250,000 of their savings in Amazon, a bet that could now be worth more than the GDP of 100 countries |
At 16, Miguel Bezos left Cuba for the United States with just three shirts, three pairs of trousers, a pair of shoes and a handmade jacket. Arriving as an unaccompanied teenager during a period of political upheaval in Cuba, he had to rebuild his life in a country where he did not even speak the…