AgreeableLandscape to The place for leftist memes · 3 years agoHow "self made" billionaires got their startimagemessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up143arrow-down10
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minus-squareमुक्तlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-23 years agoThe good old journey of mavericks from rich, to super-rich. Still impressive, but clearly not as impressive as is generally thought to be. EDIT : Just adding another nugget. I recall reading that Bezos’ grandfather was head of DARPA.
minus-squaretracyspcylinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 years agojust to support your info about self made Bezos https://www.wired.com/1999/03/bezos-3/
minus-squaremurkylinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-23 years agoThanks for digging out this article from 1999! It’s such a good read and gives valuable insight into the beginnings of Bezos & Amazon
minus-squareAgreeableLandscapeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 years agoI don’t think it’s impressive. All I see is an exploiter and all I think is how many people did they cheat and step on to achieve what they did.
The good old journey of mavericks from rich, to super-rich.
Still impressive, but clearly not as impressive as is generally thought to be.
EDIT : Just adding another nugget. I recall reading that Bezos’ grandfather was head of DARPA.
just to support your info about self made Bezos https://www.wired.com/1999/03/bezos-3/
Thanks for digging out this article from 1999! It’s such a good read and gives valuable insight into the beginnings of Bezos & Amazon
I don’t think it’s impressive. All I see is an exploiter and all I think is how many people did they cheat and step on to achieve what they did.