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> On 6/17/2017 10:51 AM, Bruce wrote:
>> On Sat, 17 Jun 2017 07:56:23 -0400, jmcbiddy >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Jeff Bezos is laughing all the way to the bank. Ever hear how he
>>> started Amazon?
>>>
>>> https://www.biography.com/people/jeff-bezos-9542209
>>>
>>> Amazon started as an online *book store*. Brilliant!
>>>
>>> Bezos had the vision to realize the Internet and personal computer
>>> technology was about to explode. People would be shopping online. He's
>>> smart. He was two steps ahead.
>>>
>>> Unlike John Kuthe, with all his claims of having various college
>>> degrees... Jeff Bezos had a vision and started a company that changed
>>> the retail market.
>>>
>>> Do I pay for Prime? No. I don't buy enough items in a year to find it
>>> worthwhile. But I credit Jeff Bezos for the invention of online
>>> shopping.
>>
>> English entrepreneur Michael Aldrich was already pioneering in online
>> shopping in 1979, when Bezos was 15*. Amazon started in 1995.
>>
>> *
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_shopping#History_of_Online_Shopping>
>>
>
>
> Let's cut to the chase: Al Gore was first.
