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		foobarqux on Nov 26, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Friends and Family Funding and Why I'm Dreading Th... Bezos's parents invested 300k into Amazon or whatever it was called at first.

SkyAtWork on Nov 26, 2013 [–]

Though Jeff came out of a hedge fund (DE Shaw) and doesn't seem to have been struggling :)

foobarqux on Nov 26, 2013 | [–]

He wasn't struggling but he left before getting his bonus so I don't know how much of his own capital he had to invest.

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