Jeff Bezos: A Rocket Launched From Miami's Palmetto High

Amazon.com Founder Was Local Valedictorian

When Jeffrey Preston Bezos graduated from Miami Palmetto Senior High in 1982, he had big plans to change the world.

The valedictorian, National Merit Scholar and Silver Knight award winner for science told the Miami Herald he wanted to β€œbuild space hotels, amusement parks, yachts and colonies for two or three million people orbiting around the earth.”

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