Jeff Bezos in 1997.
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Although his boss at the firm tried to persuade Bezos to stay, he was already determined to start his own company he felt he d rather try and fail at a startup than never try at all, according to Brad Stone s book, The Everything Store.
Bezos and his then wife, MacKenzie, drove from Texas to Seattle and set up shop in a garage. Amazon was born.
In 1994, after seeing that the web had grown 2,300% in a single year, Bezos quit a lucrative job at hedge fund D.E. Shaw to sell books online.
Although his boss at the firm tried to persuade Bezos to stay, he was already determined to start his own company he felt he d rather try and fail at a startup than never try at all, according to Brad Stone s book, The Everything Store.