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Acquired

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The Jungly Acquisition

Amazon acquired accept.com to keep it out of the hands of eBay. They sunk a bunch of money into pets.com, Cosmo.com and other startups as kind of hedges. Jungly was a comparison shopping site started by three Stanford computer science PhDs and a business guy from Netscape. Amazon acquires this company for like 150, $175 million or something like that but they can't work there anymore.

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