How Jeff Bezos Became the King of E-Commerce
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was one of the first entrepreneurs to realize the potential of selling products on the internet. This Bloomberg Profile looks into how Bezos built Amazon inside his garage...
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In 1994, a young, Wall Street hotshot named Jeff Bezos was at a crossroads in his career:Continue amassing a small fortune......or abandon it all to sell books?That decision would single-handedly change the history of e-commerce,publishing, film, TV, journalism,and quite possibly interstellar travel.That decision also represents a recurring theme in his life:Never settle.Ever.This is how Jeff Bezos took a simple idea into a garageand built one of the largest marketplaces on the planet.Jeff Bezos was born on January 12, 1964.As a child, he turned his parents’ garageinto a laboratory for his inventions.In his 1982 valedictorian speech, he discussed colonizing outer spaceand turning Earth into a giant nature preserve.Graduating from Princeton with a computer science...
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In 1994, a young, Wall Street hotshot named Jeff Bezos was at a crossroads in his career:Continue amassing a small fortune......or abandon it all to sell books?That decision would single-handedly change the history of e-commerce,publishing, film, TV, journalism,and quite possibly interstellar travel.That decision also represents a recurring theme in his life:Never settle.Ever.This is how Jeff Bezos took a simple idea into a garageand built one of the largest marketplaces on the planet.Jeff Bezos was born on January 12, 1964.As a child, he turned his parents’ garageinto a laboratory for his inventions.In his 1982 valedictorian speech, he discussed colonizing outer spaceand turning Earth into a giant nature preserve.Graduating from Princeton with a computer science...
