, will replace him later in 2021. But back in 1997, the two men were engaged in a game that was equal parts playful and symbolic.
The story goes that broomball was introduced by one of Amazon's vice presidents at a company conference. The setup of the game, Stone recounts, was a bit unorthodox:"players swatted a kickball on the lawn with brooms and other random implements from his garage," he wrote.
"In other words [broomball] perfectly expressed the temperament of Jeff Bezos, who stopped by the meeting and threw himself into the inaugural Amazon broomball contest with gusto. At one point, Andy Jassy, then a new recruit from Harvard, made his first significant impression at the company by inadvertently hitting Bezos in the head with a kayak paddle. Later, Bezos dove after the ball into some hedges and tore his blue oxford shirt," Stone wrote.
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knocked the hair right out of him!
Wonder why Bezos looks so weird