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In 2014, Forbes ranked him as the 134th richest American, at $3.8 billion. One of his hires was Jeff Bezos, who, while researching business opportunities in 1994 for Shaw, got the idea for an online bookstore and left to start a company called Amazon.com. At $30 billion in 2014, Bezos was the fifteenth richest American.
Edward O. Thorp • A Man for All Markets
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THE MONOPOLY QUESTION
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as any major initiative unfolds at Amazon. com, Jeff stays as close to the project team and its data as he can, not only monitoring it but questioning it, poking holes in it, and examining every facet down to the smallest detail.
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THE DURABILITY QUESTION
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
1 percent of Amazon—in lieu of the annual cash payments. Unfortunately, we did not have the requisite confidence in Amazon, and we sold our equity shortly after the IPO in 1996 for about $80 million.
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