What Do Drake And Amazon's Jeff Bezos Have In Common?

The world's second wealthiest person Jeff Bezos and highly successful music artist Drake have made quite the impact not just in their respective industries but also on the planet.

As you may know, their extraordinary achievements did not come easy, as they were known to have strived hard from the bottom to the top.

Drake and Jeff's shared unprivileged beginnings led them to bond not long ago through a throwback shot on the renowned vocalist's Instagram page.

Drake's Wednesday, July 6 photos on the gram showed one of himself standing in front of a door and another of Jeff sitting at a desk, working on a computer.

The picture of the 35-year-old songwriter was a monochrome in which he wore a retro jacket and looked back at the camera. The door he stood in front of had 1503 written on its handle.

On the other hand, Jeff's throwback snap had him sitting in Amazon's older office before it became the formidable empire it is now.

Drake wrote under the post, "Gotta start somewhere," with over a million fans flooding the post with likes.

Shortly after, Comments by Celebs captured the same update alongside Bezos' comment, saying, "Started from the bottom now we're here."

Regarding the 1503 door number in the Canadian rapper's picture, the doorway reportedly belonged to an old apartment at 15 York in Toronto, Canada.

Not to mention, the apartment was where Drake and his longtime friend Noah "40" Sheib recorded most of his compositions for his mixtape "So Far Gone."

It is worth knowing that the "Nothing Was the Same" rapper also referenced the same building, 15 Fort York, in his music piece "Know Yourself."

As the renowned Jeff turned 58 earlier this year, Business Insider shared fascinating details of how he made his wealth and became one of the world's wealthiest people.

He was reported to have started his career as a hedge funder in New York before quitting to begin his now trillion-dollar worth Amazon journey.

During the initial stages of his work at Amazon, he struggled to make a profit. Along the way, he faced multiple challenges, ranging from "antitrust scrutiny and weathered scandals," among others.

Regarding his earlier life, he was born to his mom Jackie who was a teenager when she birthed him in 1964. Jackie later married Cuban immigrant Miguel Bezos, who adopted Jeff.

Back then, the 58-year-old media proprietor was not aware Miguel was not his father until he was 10, as he recently admitted to being more confused about learning he needed glasses than he was about the news.

Jeff has always been brilliant since he was little, and from ages 4 to 16, he spent summers on his grandparents' Texas ranch, being handy, usually found castrating bulls and fixing windmills.

His granddad Preston Gise was a huge inspiration to Bezos, same with his love for the original "Star Trek." His interest in the production made him consider naming Amazon MakeltSo.com, quoting a line from the character Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

As for the mastermind entrepreneur's work life, he spent summers working at McDonalds as a teenager, then went on to establish the Dream Institute with his girlfriend.

The institute was a 10-day summer camp for kids that charged $600 per child, and the teenage couple was able to sign up six students.

Jeff's future years at Princeton University, going on to work at the startup Fitel, and working at the hedge fund D.E Shaw all contributed to his creation of Amazon, which was initially an online bookstore. 

Similar to the father-of-4's humble beginnings, Drake was raised by his Jewish mum in a "predominantly Jewish neighborhood," based on a 2016 report from Business Insider.

He and his mother lived "paycheck to paycheck," but fortunately, he eventually began his entertainment career at 15 with the Canadian TV show "Degrassi."

At the time of his feature on the show, he started his music career, and later in 2008, famed rapper, Lil Wayne called him to join his tour. This led him to sign to Wayne's Young Money Entertainment label.

Drake gained significant success with his first mixtape, "So Far Gone," released in 2009, and gained more hits with his following music pieces, leading him to make a whopping $40 million in 2016.