Amazon is worth nearly $2 trillion. Jeff Bezos started it in his garage. He had to string extension cords from each room in his house to get power in the office.

he also got a 250k loan from his parents

i always feel like the started in the garage thing is a bit misleading... he got $250,000 k from his dad to start it, garage is probably just for convenience, if i needed a bit office to work at all the time right now at my house?

Let’s not act like Jeff Bezos was poor and funded his business with pennies and the last of his paycheck every two weeks. He had parents that had serious money and they blessed him. Most people don’t have that. PERIOD. Let’s keep things in perspective.

lots of people here that are very confident they could turn $250,000 into $2 trillion

Funded with DARPA government grants— hard to call that a startup.

a bit like Jack Ma's first office in Alibaba. But Jack started with a lot of others and each of them became multi millionnaires. Maybe that is the cultural difference, east and west, right there. Prosperity should be shared

Bezos Grandfather was a founder of DARPA. He helped the Mossad steal 300 lbs of weapons grade Uranium as a Director at the Atomic Energy Commission.

Intel x86 CPU's did in fact draw a lot of electricity, still do

Then it’s good I just picked up his original school photo used in his HS yearbook 👀

Incredible to see how far Amazon has come from its humble beginnings. Truly a testament to innovation and determination.