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# Jeff Bezos's Hobby Journey

b. 1964

Founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, space entrepreneur

## Hobby Timeline

### Childhood

Building robots and gadgets  Sci-fi reading (Asimov, Heinlein)  Playing Star Trek with friends  Ranch work (Texas summers)

### Teens

Invention and engineering  Space daydreaming

### Career

Blue Origin (space company as passion project)  Star Trek cameo acting

### Later Life

Deep-sea exploration for Apollo rocket engines  Hiking  Kayaking

## 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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