She started her investing career covering "fall-through-the-cracks" stocks and was ridiculed for buying Amazon when it had just a $5 billion market cap in 2002. The internet was considered "a figment of Wall Street's imagination," Wood said in a Wednesday interview with Benzinga. At the time, Amazon was down 80% from its peak during the dot-com bubble. But Wood was convinced. She had three little kids and no time to shop in physical stores. Amazon, whose e-commerce services were a lifesaver for working moms like her, was going to become a big deal one day, in her view. But the aftermath of the tech bubble had made any bet on companies with no earnings or trajectory to earnings seem foolish and reckless.