Jeff Bezos

Man, that’s so much money.

I’m looking at buying a new home and getting a mortgage together with my wife. With his wealth, he could buy nearly 400,000 of those homes!!! :eek:
 
Zefan said:
Whatever you may think about the hyper rich, consider what it takes to merely succeed in this hyper competitive world, let alone thrive.

Then consider that he took his business from this:
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It's not just a function of hard-work, tho.

For example, does anyone think the next Bezos could create the next Amazon, in a world where Amazon already exists?

You do as ever need the right idea at the right time. Otherwise all the hard work in the world will get you nowhere.

And you need the opportunity, which not everyone has for a variety of reasons.
 
His jump from the edge of space , was impressive/courageous ... set him apart from any of the others Gates, Musk, Jobs, Branson(he did a balloon thing -no?)
 
StriderX said:
Rapidly approaching the need to antitrust the **** out of these companies before it's too late to stop them.
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It's already far too late.

Individual countries cannot even make a stand against corporations. Who buy politicians for fun.

The EU as a bloc can somewhat stand up to them, some of the time.

The UK on its own has no chance.. Amazon et al will be running the UK in no time at all (even more so than now..)

But look on the bright side for one moment. When Boris stops being PM, he will be able to take up a highly paid position in any number of international mega corps ;) You're just jealous (etc etc etc).
 
Jasoncmor said:
Don't forget Bezos's parents invested nearly $250,000 for this to be possible.

It's true what they say, you need money to make money.
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Not really - I mean it doesn't require parent's money etc.. it's nice to have no doubt - that someone is well off, comfortable means they can afford to take risks or at least feel more comfortable taking risks.

It's still a pretty awesome achievement regardless - there are plenty of companies out there started with investments like that which will either fail or won't grow to become particularly prominent.

If you've got a good product/can put together a demo and are credible then you can pitch a bunch of angle investors, VCs etc.. and get funding.
 
dirtychinchilla said:
this is funny. “man starts business with money”
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It's not so much he used money to make money. That's a given. It's the sheer scale of what he had in relation to the vast majority.

For comparison. He could give every Amazon employee in the world (all 840,400 of them) $100,000 and still spend less than half his worth.
 
Woden said:
It's not so much he used money to make money. That's a given. It's the sheer scale of what he had in relation to the vast majority.

For comparison. He could give every Amazon employee in the world (all 840,400 of them) $100,000 and still spend less than half his worth.
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He really couldn't. Net worth does not = money in the bank. Overall a very small amount of that would probably be actual cash.
 
Gerard said:
Was it amazon that bought over jungle.com? Or did they just die off with the .com bubble?
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seems they got bought by great universal stores, which in turn split into experian and home retail group - the latter of which presumably contained the company and then got bought by sainsbury's

webstie today seems to be owned by a completely different company
 
Woden said:
For comparison. He could give every Amazon employee in the world (all 840,400 of them) $100,000 and still spend less than half his worth.
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He already does that (well at least for the non-warehouse staff), in fact he tends to give them a bit more than $100,000... every year too!
 
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