On of the first to do so was Jeffrey Preston Bezos, a graduate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the princeton University. after his graduation in 1986,Bezos turned down offers from Bell labs and Intel and instead took up a job in a startup company run by two professors from the Columbia University. The company built telecommunication networks for wall street firms. Bezos left the company in 1988 and joined Banker's Trust where he led the development of computer systems. In early 1990, he became the youngest vice-president of that company but quit the job to work for D.E.shaw's hedge fund till 1994. at D.E.shaw, he built technically sophisticaled and successful quantitative hedge funds and in 1992, at the age of 28, became the firm's youngest senior vice-president. Around that time Bezos came across an article on the impact of the Internet on online shopping. He found out that the Internet was growing at rate of 2300 percent per month and realize that within a few years many people would be making money by selling over the web He desperately wanted to start a new venture on the web as early as possible.