Jackie Bezos, mother of Amazon founder Jeff who gave her son funds to start his internet behemoth
Jackie Bezos, who has died aged 78, helped to launch her son Jeff on the path to becoming a multi-billionaire by providing an initial investment of $245,000 to create the online retailer Amazon. In 1995 Jeff Bezos, then a 30-year-old engineer and computer scientist, came up with the idea of an online bookselling site and