According to
Business Dictionary (2015), Vision is defined as an inspirational statement of
what an organization would like to achieve or in the short period or long
period of time. It is designed as a clear guide for deciding the courses of the
operation while visionary is someone or something that thinks about the future
or advancements in a creative and imaginative way. According to Your Dictionary
(2015), definition of visionary is someone with uncommon or revolutionary ideas
about the future or progression. The entrepreneurs acquire this trait are
innovators who are always searching to either develop a new idea or improve an
existing product or service. With that, they will become a pioneer for a whole
new industry.
One of the
successful visionary entrepreneur is Jeff Bezos. Jeff Bezos was born on 12
January 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico,
USA. His biological father’s name is Ted Jorgensen. BeOS’s parents were married
for only less than a year. Bezos showed his interest in creating something
since he was just a child. He often went to his parents’ garage and turning it
into a laboratory and rigging electrical contraptions . When he was a teenager,
his family moved to Miami. It is during this period he developed an interest
for computers. He used to perform well in the high school. He also the
valedictorian of his class. Jeff Bezos started his business since he was in the
high school. He started a business of an educational summer camp which was called
the Dream Institute.
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After that, Bezos
pursued his interest in computers at Princeton University. Then, he graduated
in 1986 with a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. After
graduation, he got a job at several firms on Wall Street such as Fitel, Bankers
Trust, and the investment firm D.E. Shaw where he was named the youngest vice
president in 1990. It is also here that he met his wife Mackenzie. According to
Biography (2015), while he have a very successful career, Bezos chose to take a
big risk to move into the world of e-commerce. In 1994, he quit his job and
then moved to Seattle and focussing on the potential of the internet market by
opening an online bookstore.
Jeff Bezos was
one of the best visionary entrepreneurs because he establishes Amazon, an
electronic commerce company. He got this idea while he was on the way from New
York to Seattle. Then, he realised that the internet can change the way the
world shops. He envisioned the
opportunity of exploring new kind of business and he tried many ways to reach
limitless number of people across the world. According to Kumar (2012), Jeff
Bezos visited the American Booksellers’ Convention in Los Angeles where he
decided of doing book business. He saw that the book wholesalers had a long
electronic lists of their inventory but he noticed that the book wholesalers
have no single platform for the public to just simply order the book and get
the book delivered to their addresses. He did not managed to find a partner to
start up his business because at that time, a lot of people did not believed on
the potential of electronic shop. Thus, he decided to start the company alone
without any financial supports. He wrote the business plan with his wife and
started his company just from their garage.
In 1995, he
launched his site and spread it to all across the world through his 300 beta
testers (Kumar, 2012). After that, on July 16 1995 he founded Amazon which is
named after the South American River. Within just a month his site Amazon.com
could sell books in 50 states and 45 foreign countries. The site started
expanding significantly than he expected. In 1997, the company went to market
and sales started increasing by every week.
As a conclusion,
we learn that a leader or a company
should have the visionary and mission to give the direction for employees in
order to do their duties in the correct ways. Thus, the people can achieve
their goals more easier with vision.
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