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Jeff Bezos

The David Rubenstein Show

CHAPTER

The Rise and Fall of Amazon

I came across the fact that the world wide web was growing at something like 2300 percent a year. And so I made a list of products that I might saw online and started force ranking them. There are 3 million different books active and imprint around the world in a given time. The biggest bookstores only had 150,000 titles. So the founding idea of Amazon was to build universal selection of books.

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