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Jeff Bezos's Hobby Journey
b. 1964
Founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, space entrepreneurHobby Timeline
Childhood
Building robots and gadgetsSci-fi reading (Asimov, Heinlein)Playing Star Trek with friendsRanch work (Texas summers)
Teens
Invention and engineeringSpace daydreaming
Career
Blue Origin (space company as passion project)Star Trek cameo acting
Later Life
Deep-sea exploration for Apollo rocket enginesHikingKayaking
Surprising hobbies
- ✦Scours the ocean floor for discarded NASA Apollo-era rocket engines using submarines
- ✦Star Trek superfan since childhood — made a cameo in Star Trek Beyond (2016)
- ✦Spent summers as a ranch hand: castrating cattle and fixing windmills
How hobbies shaped their career
Childhood tinkering and invention directly shaped his engineering mindset. Star Trek fandom inspired Blue Origin, Alexa, and Amazon's space ambitions. His grandfather's ranch taught him self-reliance and practical problem-solving. Sci-fi reading fueled his long-term thinking about civilization-scale problems.
"We'd fight over who'd get to be Captain Kirk, or Spock, and somebody used to play the computer too. We'd have little cardboard phasers and cardboard tricorders."
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