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Originally Posted by nik-
Jeff Bezos also had basically a totally different idea that was couched in a book selling site. So that might have had something to do with getting financing.
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Nah, very likely it had a lot more to do with my parents having a really leftist background that was considered extremely sketchy at that time especially, plus my mom being unemployed and extremely depressed at that time took up most of my dads time. Three kids and a wife is a lot to support for one guy. Oh and then dad died of pancreatic cancer at the point when his new career in IT consulting was starting to bring in real money, so that kinda put an end to his chances of ever being successful in that field.
But when I mean "almost exactly the same idea", I literally mean that they had the idea that books are just a starting place etc.
I really don't get why there's this worship of Jeff Bezos in particular, I mean Amazon seriously isn't that special as an idea. Journalists now love to call him a visionary because that fits a certain extremely American idea of success, but Amazon is no Facebook which was a genuinely new idea, or Google with an actual technological breakthrough that launched that company.
Amazon was just the most successful one of the many companies that tried to do internet retail. Bezos very likely is a very good CEO, but there are other very good CEO's. He's hardly a visionary.