Jeff Bezos held 60 meetings to secure Amazon investors but 40 declined his offer of $50K for 1% ownership — today, that would be worth $25B

A $50,000 check can buy plenty of things. In 1995, it could have bought a sliver of an online bookstore that many people did ...
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America's economy should be 'thrilled' billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett exist, think-tank director says

"We should want more billionaires, not fewer," one economic think tank director says.

‘The average American is now closer to Jeff Bezos in net worth than Jeff Bezos is to Elon Musk’ as Musk becomes the world’s first trillionaire

SpaceX founder Elon Musk just became the first person in history to surpass a net worth of $1 trillion, putting him in a wealth category of his own.