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Bezos was an investment banker.

Before he had the track record of long term development (only born from long term efforts) he knew how to speak Wall Street and had a track record on Wall Street.

Most CEO’s will never be capitalized like him for long term empire building so it’s hard to say there couldn’t be more Amazon sized successes out there if Capital was more accessible for longer term visions.



This seems sensible. If you want the goodwill from your investors to make a long term bet like Amazon did, you need to explain it to them in terms they can understand. It's a language anyone can learn with sufficient training and experience.


Wait, I thought Bezos was a quant, not an investment banker?


He worked at bankers trust, but not as a banker, and then at a quant hedge fund, but not as a quant.


Bezos was never an investment banker.




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