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Part One: Jeff Bezos and the Birth of Amazon

Behind the Bastards

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The Vanguard Programme, a Gifted and Talented Programme

When he wasn't spending his summers at the ranch, jeff bazos spent most of his childhood in houston, texas. He attended public school and was lucky enough to benefit from a school district that had both money um and a devotion to taking care of its gifted students. The vanguard programme, as it's called, was a gifted and talented programme that was meant to find bright kids and encourage them to think outside the box. When julie ray met him, she decided to write a book about the programme. She used the pseudonym tim for him in her book, at his parents request. But from julie's work, we have our first early objective pe

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