Jeff Bezos thought there was a '30% chance' Amazon would succeed: I told my parents 'it's very likely they'll lose their entire investment'

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Jeff Bezos thought there was a '30% chance' Amazon would succeed: I told my parents 'it's very likely they'll lose their entire investment.' (via CNBCMakeIt)

in 1994"I thought there was a 30% chance that we might build a successful company," Bezos told John Stofflet in an interview for in 2000. "I never thought we'd build what Amazon has turned into, and I'm the most surprised on the planet.

 

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MakeIt Well, most people do not realize that Amazon when is started in 1994, it was just a book review website. Later on they started selling used books. The Amazon we know today is completely different from what it was for the first handful of years

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