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Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Neil.

And I'm Georgina.

If you've ever done shopping online, then you may well have used the internet giant Amazon.

From its origins as an online bookstore, Amazon has grown into grocery deliveries,

TV and music streaming and even space exploration.

Making its founder, Jeff Bezos, the richest person on earth.

Amazon is so successful it affects how many of us live our lives.

So in this program, we'll be taking a look inside the brain of Jeff Bezos to find out how he thinks.

When Jeff Bezos' friends talk about him, three words they often use are

invention, risk-taking and long-term vision.

These are qualities which Bezos admired in his grandfather Lawrence,

who from an early age taught Jeff that by careful thinking any problem can be solved.

As a boy, Jeff and his grandfather repaired an old broken-down truck.

When interviewed today, Bezos sometimes compares Amazon to that truck.

Very heavy, but impossible to stop when it rolls downhill.

Which is exactly what accidentally happened one day.

But do you know how the story ends Georgina? That's my quiz question.

What happened when the young Jeff Bezos' car accidentally rolled downhill?

Was it A, Jeff jumped in and pulled the handbrake?

B, Jeff's granddad lost the thumb or C, Jeff's hair fell out.

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