Jeff Bezos

“An Evening for Jeff Bezos”: Amazon founder receives the Axel Springer Award 2018 in Berlin / Mathias Döpfner: “We want to encourage young people to think big”.

Laudation by John Elkann, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Fiat corporation, in honor of Jeff Bezos / Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Sir Martin Sorrell and Steven Spielberg send their congratulations / Biographical episodes from Bezos’s life displayed in a miniature world / The guests are founders from the start-up scene, top managers […]

Press Release: Announcement 2018

23.1.2018 Jeff Bezos receives the Axel Springer Award 2018 Award ceremony with Jeff Bezos on April 24, 2018 at the Axel Springer Group headquarters in Berlin Jeff Bezos, 54, founder and CEO of Amazon Inc. and owner of “The Washington Post”, is the recipient of this year’s Axel Springer Award. With this award, Axel Springer […]

Mathias Döpfner

“Jeff Bezos is receiving the Axel Springer Award 2018, because he was the first person almost a quarter of a century ago to recognize the potential of trading goods on the Internet and, with Amazon, he created a global corporation which he then led to unique business success. At a time when the digital economy […]