Clipping found in Albuquerque Journal in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Nov 16, 1995. "Our program," the budding entrepreneurs wrote in a "Dear parent" flyer generated on Jeff's Apple II and a dot-matrix printer, "emphasizes the use of new ways of thinking in old areas. All Rights Reserved. When Bezos made clear his intention to become class valedictorian, for example, Weinstein says everyone else understood they were working for second place. Lawrence Preston Gise: Mother: Mattie Louise Strait: Brother: NA: Sister: NA: READ- Lesser Known Facts about Iman Vellani. he says. This piece only looks at all small sliver of his resume in the roughly 1957-to-1959-time frame. "What consumerism really is, at its worst," he adds, "is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives. The family moved to Houston, Texas, where Mike became an engineer for Exxon after getting a degree from the University of New Mexico. Lu Kim, the owner of City Wok invited City sushi owner, Junichi Takayama to a school meeting claiming it to be about the diversity of Asian people. Search this for Gise (or LP Gise). Bezos' grandfather, who he refers to as "Pop," lived in a rural community in the"middle of nowhere." His surfing isn't always confined to retail: Let the record note that on a Thursday in January he spent five hours on the Web using MacKenzie's MSN account, plumbing the depths of his space fascination and learning more about "roton" rockets. The Arctics Permafrost-Obsessed Methane Detectives. When Joshua Weinstein teased Bezos about being listed on the Forbes 400 roster of the richest Americans, for example, "Jeff said the only real difference was that he doesn't have to look at the prices on a menu anymore.". Bezos notes. Nona Gise. "Every business has to deal with some scarcity, and in our case it's screen real estate," Bezos observes. L.P. Gise had a very fascinating career in the service of the U.S. Government during the four decades following World War II. After nearly two years of failed attempts to grow Fitel, Bezos bailed out for a more stable job as a product manager at Bankers Trust. They may also have missed that, in focusing on the consumer in a way few Web entrepreneurs can match, he is actually trying to transform the world. Jeff Bezos step father was also a highly paid Exonn Mobil Engineer, he had an extremely wealthy family, and his grandfather gave him start up capital in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The superstore also served as a venue for business meetings with outsiders. It also helped that even in the earliest days sales were coming from around the country. "You cannot," he says, "make a business case that you should be who you're not. Yes.". Rule number one on how to succeed in business, from the new master of the game. Operations for organizations contribution to Navys Fleet Ballistic Missile System. More good background on LP Gise (VOL. All rights reserved. The pragmatic Bezos switched his major to computer science and committed himself to starting and running his own business. In their quest to revolutionize retailing, the threesome made ample use of the unsuspecting competition's physical resources. ), As bandwidth and speed increase, making it ever easier for consumers to browse through goods online, Bezos expects e-catalogs to finally drive their paper counterparts into extinction. "Addie" Kearns. I thought Amazon only got big because Bezos is son of an immigrant! ", We're striding up Pine Street toward the new Nordstrom store in Seattle's downtown shopping district, next door to the Pacific Place mall and only a couple of blocks from Amazon.com headquarters. This is where Jeff spent all his summers from the age of four to 16. "He barely made the weight limit, and I thought he was going to get creamed out there," Jackie recalls, laughing. But David Shaw and others at the firm weren't ready to make books a priority. Jeff would spend summers there with his grandparents, Lawrence Preston ("Pop") Gise and his wife Mattie Louise Strait (related to country singer George Strait). Over blueberry pancakes at the Sash Mill Cafe in Santa Cruz, Bezos managed to convince one of them, Shel Kaphan, to become employee number one. But his friend Joshua Weinstein says that even during their high school years, when she was in her early 30s, Jackie Bezos commanded as much if not more authority and respect than any other mother. Get the best stories from WIREDs iconic archive in your inbox, A tiny blog took on Big Surveillance in Chinaand won, In the war on bacteria, its time to call in the phages, The magic and minstrelsy of generative AI, Artificial wombs will change abortion rights forever, Embrace the new season with the Gear teams best picks for best tents, umbrellas, and robot vacuums, 2023 Cond Nast. Will I regret missing a chance to be there at the beginning of the Internet? Bezos has profited directly from his Amazon.com stock only once, selling 180,000 shares last November for $23 million. Over the next few years, he visited his son occasionally but missed many support payments. Ad Choices. ", Not that it matters. He decides to buy the pants. The goal is within reach. In 1995, Jeff Bezos parents took a $250,000 gamble on his fledgling startup, One IPO and 3 splits later, his parents stake could be worth almost $30 billion today. "One of his mottos was that every time we hired someone, he or she should raise the bar for the next hire, so that the overall talent pool was always improving," Lovejoy says. ", "Strip malls," Bezos predicts, "are history.". Dont believe me? Bezos waves an arm across the scene. They square-danced, did the jitterbug and the twist, skipped rope, and rode on a high wire. They were the parents of at least 1 son. Gise moved in with her parents because Jorgensen stayed out late, and drank too much, and was generally an inattentive father and husband says Stone. No. Board member Patty Stonesifer, a former Microsoft executive, points to last year's annual meeting of Amazon.com shareholders, at the Seattle Art Museum, where Bezos held the audience spellbound in a way that reminded her of the best Hollywood executives she has met. Al Gise. Just an everyday manager at the AEC. When he discovers a pair of shoes he likes, he'll buy four pairs at once and wear them in regular rotation for years. Toy shopping, online and off, captivates him. Mother of Jeffrey Preston (Jorgensen) Bezos (born 1964), (born april 23 1915) / 4920 north 30th street Arlington virginia, Official Register of the Untied States, 1949 . PDF at [HG0034][GDrive], PDF - "1994 Declassified First History of AFSWP 1947-1954 Vol 6 1953 Chapter 3" - [HG0030][GDrive], His boss, "Captain F. L. Ashworth", is the guy who bombed Nagasaki - https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/08/us/frederick-l-ashworth-93-atomic-bomb-handler-dies.html. Successful "shoptainers" will be like the Gap, with its environment of music and youth culture, or Nordstrom, with its tinkling pianist and distinctive face-to-face service. The only time I ever think about it, genuinely, is when a doctor asks me to fill out a form." As we pass Victoria's Secret he says slyly, "You know, they charge you for the catalog in the stores," and whisks me through racks of bras and panties to a cash register in the back, where he asks the clerk to show him the goods. Jeff's grandfather, Lawrence Preston Gise, owned and operated a cattle ranch in Cotulla, Texas. "You know, the potential exists in a broadband world for every author to have a five-minute video snippet explaining the intended audience. Mike Bezos (pronounced BAY-zoes) had arrived in the United States, alone, in 1962, at the age of 15. ", Back out in the street, the shopping throng envelopes us. Other Partners Professional Partners. Will I regret missing the beginning of the Internet? "This requires a lot of innovation, and innovation requires a lot of random walk"that is, spontaneous, open-ended search. Shortly before he and Bezos met he had left Kaleida Labs, an ill-fated Apple spin-off, which makes it all the more remarkable that he almost immediately found Bezos trustworthyso trustworthy, in fact, that Kaphan agreed in short order to relocate to Seattle. Given that getting items into customers' hands as quickly as possible is a key part of the Amazon.com experience, he admits that distributors are also key, at least currently. A potbellied stove commanded the middle of the room, and extension cords ran everywhere because there weren't enough electrical outlets to power the trio's Sun SPARCstations. "I wouldn't mind helping in some way," he says. Jeff Bezos, at the age of 5, with his grandfather, Lawrence Preston Gise, on the family ranch in Cotulla, Texas, 1969. When customers ask a store for a book it doesn't have, the first place many of them will turn to fill the customer's order is Ingram or Baker & Taylor, the two largest distributors. It was really sort of a startling insight, that there were these people whose brains were wired differently." "I want to get a pair of cargo pants," he says, "although my wife says she hates them. In Nordstrom we pick up lattes and stand in the middle of the main floor. "It wasn't about money itself. "I don't think he's a showman," says Stonesifer, "but people are drawn to him because he seems unbelievably like a winner. "The Net can't replace this experience. ", Achieving his astronaut goals meant succeeding at school, and Bezos would show as a teenager that behind the easygoing faade and booming laugh was a relentless, even intimidating, work ethic, one that has become his hallmark at Amazon.com. Lloyd Preston Gise Born about 6 Nov 1873 in Illinois, United States Ancestors Son of Daniel K Gise and Adeline Amanda (Kearns) Gise Brother of Ward Kearns Gise, Beulah A Gise and Edith Gise Husband of Rebecca Mabel (Hall) Gise married 15 Aug 1912 in Dimmit, Texas, United States Descendants Father of Lawrence Preston Gise Jeff Bezos working on a Computer in his teenage. In its music department, for example, the company will replace cracked or broken CD jewel cases. It was the two-and-a-half-year-old hedge fund firm D. E. Shaw. In 1958, L.P. Gise was one of the four original founders of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), later renamed DARPA ("D" for Defense.) They talked w/ John A. Hornbeck, Sandia Corporation President, and LP Gise (right). As of 2022, Jeff Bezos' mother, Jacklyn will be 76 years old in December. "There's no comparison between the two models," he says gleefully, leaning forward and clasping his hands. (It's not unheard-of for authors to purchase copies of their own books just so they can see the ticker bump up.) "You know, the potential exists in a broadband world for every author to have a five-minute video snippet explaining who the intended audience is, why they should buy that book, or that music CD, or that video, and you'll be able to show the trailers from the videos." Mike Bezos is not Jeff's biological father. "That resourcefulness of trying new things, figuring things out," says Bezos, "It pays off in everything. He points to Amazon, which he says has "tons" of examples of failure. It turns out two catalogs are for sale, one for $5 and another for $3. Around Christmas 1997, a rented white Chevrolet Suburban pulled into the parking lot and disgorged three members of a commando squad on a mission. The Wranglers divided their fees among all members, with Smith taking a generous cut off the top. Before 1885, most merchants, if they chose to display anything, simply piled goods haphazardly in their front windows. with Mattie Gise. And there that pesky ol LP Gise is again, discussing nuclear weapons testing in 1956, as a regional manger at the Atomic Energy Commission. He used his brain to compensate. Bezos has said the only time he thinks about Jorgensen is when hes filling out a medical form that asks for his family history. Jeff figured out that the pieces of the cube could be bought cheaply, so he didand built it himself. Watching that decision, Alberg says, taught him that "you need to do due diligence in this world, but at some point you need to make a judgment about the people.". If he ferreted out the slightest doubt, rejection usually followed. (Source of Tweet -), Jacklyn Marie Gise to marry Miguel Besos - Albuquerque 1968 (See full page at [HN00N6][GDrive], "Solar Thermoelectric Generator Design and Panel Development Program (U) ( Task II ) by V. RAGG, R. E. BERLIN, and L. H. GNAU / Prepared by national aeronautics and space administration / Contract NAS 3-10600", " U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Albuquerque Operations Office P. 0. David Shaw, like Bezos, was a computer scientist. A Tiny Blog Took on Big Surveillance in Chinaand Won. Jacklyn Gise Jorgensen, mother of Jeff Bezos was a teenager when she gave birth to him. A new breed of middlemen arose to act as brokers between them (creating legendary opportunities for what sociologist Thorstein Veblen, in his Theory of the Leisure Class, derided as "conspicuous consumption"). "I'm not embarrassed by it.". So LP Gise was a US Navy officer (admiral actually), as was Robert Swan Mueller Jr., Born one year apart. A newspaper photograph taken in 1961, when he was 16, shows him standing on the pedals of his unicycle facing backward, one hand on the seat, the other splayed theatrically to the side, his expression tense with concentration. "You see, none of this is going away," he says. Bezos comments idly on the down escalator: "Look, you turn immediately and go down, instead of walking from one end to the other and circulating through the merchandise." [17] Gise se aposentou cedo e foi para o rancho, onde Bezos passou muitos veres ainda jovem trabalhando com ele. When that happens, he says, "you have to back up and try again.". Their marriage was probably doomed from the start. If the clerks had heard this nom de guerre, they still might not have figured out that they'd been hit by a pioneering Internet entrepreneur who one year later would be worth north of $9 billion. L.P. Gise was a Senior Administrator at the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in the 1950s. How interesting So LP Gise signs over Rocky Flats management to DOW Chemical under HD Doan (last member of Dow family to manage DOW Chemical). His grandfather even did his own veterinary work. Shaw, while acknowledging that he himself had left an established business to pursue entrepreneurial dreams, tried to impress on Bezos what he would be giving up by leaving; not just financial security but a pivotal role at D. E. Shaw. "Clearly they do today, but we're on different paths we're trying to invent the future of ecommerce, and they're just defending their turf. Get Ready For The First Pluto Return in American History, OPERATION JAB INDIA: A Slow Motion Genocide, JOHN POULOS: LIAR-IN-CHIEF FOR DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS, MEDICIDE: How American Hospitals and Doctors Methodically Murdered Covid Patients. Teds permission was needed for the adoption. "So, that's that kind of self-reliance and resourcefulness," says the CEO. He wants to know, among other things, how much time he has devoted to each of the dozen or so categories to which Christenson has assigned every meeting, phone call, or trip. Elements of Controversy: The Atomic Energy Commission and Radiation Safety. Translating that ability from the annual meeting to the screen is, of course, another matter. Lawrence Preston Gise in The Victoria Advocate - Nov 16 1995 Lawrence Preston Gise in U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims, 1. A member of the House Appropriations Committee, Rhodes met with LP Gise (left), manager of AEC/ALO, and CW Campbell, VP 4000, before visiting some of the installs., Sandia Lab News VOL. Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!" Up to this point, the focus has been on minimizing flash in favor of speed, and on accepting the limitations of what it's possible to do within the 640 x 480 pixels available inside a browser window on a computer screen. ___ In turn, routine, public display of manufactured, store-bought wares enabled the development of virtual societies (or "consumption communities," as historian Daniel Boorstin labeled them) in which membership and status were based not on an inborn class hierarchy but on the ownership of specific types of goods. VISITING SANDIA [] was US Rep John F. Rhodes from Arizona (center). They named him Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen. The counter clerks at Amelia Island's Flash Foods convenience store never saw it coming. During his birth, his mother was just 17 years old and his father was the owner of a bike shop. She has donated some portion of her wealth to charity. Person of the Year: As such, the region includes all of the metropolis, from the great French capital itself through the gritty inner banlieue right out to now far-flung suburbs and exurbs, together with several large surrounding towns that form part of the greater conurbation. Lawrence Preston Gise (grandfather of Jeff Bezos ) lived in Washington DC as of the 1940 census (age 24). Lawrence Preston "Pop" Gise had held jobs that a young boy couldn't help but find cool. Besides securing the valedictorian's title, Bezos was also one of three members of his graduating class awarded a Silver Knight Award, a prestigious academic honor in south Florida high schools, sponsored by Knight Ridder's Miami Herald. Back in the late '80s in New York, when he had to wear a suit every day to the office, he gained a preference for shirts with hidden snaps under the collar points for easy tie removal. One can never tire of the delicious irony that Kaphan and Bezos would frequently repair to the Barnes & Noble store in downtown Bellevue to drink coffee and toss around ideas in the relative calm of the in-house Starbucks caf. When the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus came to town, the Wranglers performed under the big top, and in the spring of 1965 they performed in eight local shows of the Rude Brothers Circus. His father moved the family to Albuquerque when Jorgensen and his younger brother, Gordon, were in elementary school. Then Jackie took a job working in the bookkeeping department of the Bank of New Mexico and met Miguel Bezos, who was working the overnight shift while he attended the University of Albuquerque. Convenience specialists will also have contemporary antecedentsthe 7-Eleven chain, say, or Walgreen's, where you can get a quart of milk or NyQuil geltabs at 10 p.m.but these, too, will evolve: open 24/7, for example, so that you can take care of the last mile of delivery yourself at any time. See 1967 Sandia Lab News planet4589.org/space/archive/, Sandia Lab News, VOL 20, NO 9, MAY 3, 1968. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. Eventually, Jackie took the child and moved back in with her parents at Sandia. "I've never met him," Jeff says of the man who is. He's artistic, articulate, and analytical. Bezos spends hours at a time thinking about the future: trawling for ideas, exploring his own site, sometimes just surfing the Web, particularly on Mondays and Thursdays, which he tries to keep unscheduled. He insists that the lures and aids Amazon.com provides for its online shoppersthe one-click ordering system that stores credit card and shipping information; the variety of helpful suggestions and information that seem configured to exploit a customer's most impulsive tendenciesare far removed from the world's entrenched consumerist come-ons. "Oh, he had ideas about space promotion!" We encourage you to . Jeffrey's maternal grandfather named Lawrence Preston Gise used to serve the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) as a regional director. The company has moved its headquarters three times since starting in the Bellevue garage, and its staff is spread out in four buildings in downtown Seattle, in addition to its Northwest warehouse location, in an industrial area near the port facilities that stretch along the harbor south of downtown. Rankings, for exampleupdated in real time for the company's best-sellerstell shoppers exactly how well each book is selling. At a time when software is consuming us, we crave hardwarethe material anchors of our immaterial realities. He also turned hiring staff into a Socratic test. Lawrence Preston Gise, Sr. (Death) Preston Gise then tried to get Jorgensen a job with the New Mexico State Police, but Jorgensen wasnt interested. Brought to you by the CDC. ), Bezos got his first taste for retail during this time, spending one summer as a fry cook at McDonald's, studying the company's automation improvements even while he responded to the Pavlovian cues of the many and often simultaneously sounding buzzers that told him when to scramble his eggs, flip his burgers, and pull his fries out of the boiling vat. Gise.) Bezos's vision has always been about taking advantage of a new platform and new tools to change shopping itself. Their dads knew each other. This allows the company to combine orders for books from multiple publishersor orders that include a book, a CD, and a videointo single packages. In August, to celebrate Shel Kaphan's fourth anniversary at Amazon.com, Bezos organized "the Shelebration," a four-day surprise weekend excursion to Maui. It's just not as satisfying, or as fun!" The Amazon chief owns multiple properties, including a more than 300,000-acre Texas ranch. Lawrence P. Gise lived in Virginia, USA, on May 1, 1954. Mikhail Naumovich Alperovitch (born 1951), Shirley Armitage Chidsey Bridgwater (born 1907), The Crypto War in the USA Intelligence Community, Dr. Andrew Alexander Cunningham (born 1964), Eugene leuthre Irne du Pont jr. (born 1873), Dr. Jennifer Elizabeth Garrus (born 1973), General Telephone and Electronics Corporation, Dr. Lawrence Kenneth Gershwin (born 1942), Gary Kildall's book "Computer Connections" (1994), Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) Incorporated, Wolfgang Kurt Hermann Panofsky (born 1919), The President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP), The Pillsbury, Madison, and Sutro law firm, Raytheon Intelligence, Information, and Services Business Unit, Lt. Captain Maurice Schiff MD (born 1917), Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Taylor (born 1912), William Brockenbrough Taylor Sr (born 1925), William Brockenbrough Newton Taylor Jr (born 1947), Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, (Russia) State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology (VECTOR), West Nile Virus discovery in the United States (1999), ashington DC as of the 1940 census (age 24). No. Was LP Gise (grandfather of Jeff Bezos ) the man at the Atomic Energy Commission ( AEC ) that signed over control of the Rocky Flats Plant in the 1960s to DOW Chemical ???? "I do think we have all our eggs in one basket. "You have to be able to think for yourself. MacKenziewhose first novel will be published by Random House later this yearand Jeff were married in 1993. "That made me cry," he says. Jackie finished high school, and during the day, her mother, Mattie, took care of the baby. LP Gise promotion at Sandia pictured in same Sandia Lab News ( VOL. Brother . Age 70, Ted relocated from Albuquerque to Glendale, Arizona in 1974; Ted passed away on March 16th, 2015. Jackie, who gave birth to Bezos just two weeks after she turned 17, was a towering figure of authority to Bezos and his friends. Because she was underage, both of their mothers signed the application for a marriage license. He left that agency as chief, Administrative Service Division, Bureau of Chemistry and Engineering in 1942 to transfer to the Public Building Administration. That same year (1942) , [ Gise ] entered the U. S. Navy and served as an officer for four year. Following his military service, [ Gise ] served briefly with the Veterans Administration in Dallas and later with the Navy Department in Washington. Gise joined the AECs Division of Finance in 1949, transferring the following year to the Division of Military Application. The team was disguised in the tourist garb common to the Florida resort island, and the only hint that it might be a military operation was the way the squad members whispered code words like "Whiskey, Bravo, Tango" into their Motorola walkie-talkies. "He would take on major projects that he didn't know how to do and then figure out how to do them," says Bezos. If Jeff Bezos's vision comes true, here's how you'll shop in 2020: The vast bulk of store-bought goodsfood staples, paper products, cleaning supplies, and the likeyou will order electronically. In addition, she got married to Ted . He was an admin assistant in the US Dept of Agriculture, before joining the Navy (served. Uschi Werner still jokes that Bezos's real goal for Amazon.com is to amass enough of a personal fortune to build his own space station. Who could have guessed that LP Gise was there for the Saturn IB budget meetings in the fall of 1958 for ARPA I have a lot to read on the subject, mostly grabbing highlights now. The fourth rushed toward the dairy case in quest of the squad's ultimate goal: a quart of milk. He retired to his southwest Texas spread in 1968, and he doted on Jeff from the time his grandson was an infant. Teds father took a job as a purchase agent at Sandia Base (todays Sandia National Laboratories), then the largest nuclear weapons installation in the country, handling the procurement of supplies at the base. Lawrence Preston Gise Age. ", His self-deprecatory explanation for asking friends to set him up on blind dates is that "I'm not the kind of person where women say, 'Oh, look how great he is,' a half hour after meeting me. It is the essential source of information and ideas that make sense of a world in constant transformation. She died on 24 July 1977, in Bexar, Texas, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in . "That experience is what you get when you go to movie theaters, and why you don't always rent movies, right?" Full page : [HN00NZ][GDrive], As a Thursday newspaper (Nov 16), if he passed on Sunday, that would have been Nov 12 1995), Remarried Nona Louise Martin Pickett in 1994, https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-biological-father-2013-10. Behind the wheel: his mother Jackie. Bezos reserves an evangelical passion for the changes he expects in the most manipulative aspects of today's consumer culture. Recently in 2019, Jackie and her husband Mike donated $166 million to NYU Langone Health through their Bezos Family Foundation. [4] At the time of his birth, his mother was a 17-year-old high school student, and his father was a bike shop owner. They were in love and decided to get married. These companies' inventory lists, once regularly circulated to bookstores on packs of microfiche, went digital in the late 1980s along with others in the book tradean unheralded benchmark that would enable Bezos to offer books online through the virtual retailer he envisioned creating. Bezos and Kaphan rigged the SPARCstations to sound a bell's ring every time the servers recorded a sale. After a few years, he lost track of the family and then forgot their last name. Yet within a generation's time the kitschy and cluttered landscape of today's suburbia will disappear, because the new retail environment won't support "the sort of bad stores that people go to because they don't have any alternative. He refused and the VCs passed, in part because they believed Barnes & Noble would crush Amazon.com as soon as it turned its attention in Bezos's direction. "What a stinging, quivering zest they display," novelist Theodore Dreiser said in 1902 about the newfangled "show windows" he had encountered, "stirring up in onlookers a desire to secure but a part of what they see, the taste of a vibrating presence, and the pictures that it makes.". But nobody knows what you mean when you say, 'I'm looking for a resourceful woman.' In 1964, she met Ted Theodore Jorgensen, who was 19 then; Jacklyn became a teen mother at the age of 17 and was still in high school when she gave birth to Jeff Bezos in Albuquerque, New Mexico. + Follow. Fun Fact: Susan Wojcicki's father, Stanley/Stanislaw, worked under the Atomic Energy Commission at the same time as Jeff Bezos's paternal grandfather, Lawrence Preston Gise, oversaw all 26,000+ employees. Court records indicate that his income at the time was $180 a month. Computers have been digital for half a century. Lawrence Preston Gise, Mattie Louise Strait: Jacklyn Bezos is the mother Jeff Bezos, She was born on December 1946 In the United States of America to her parents, Lawrence Preston Gise and Mattie Louise Strait. ", Like this story? That would make them wealthier than Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen, bloomberg.com/news/articles/via@technology, I am NOT saying Bezos committed insider trading. AWARD from U.S. Navy presented to LP Gise, manager of AEC Abq. 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