Think Like Bezos
Mental tools of the richest man on Earth. Think Like a Genius: Part 1 of Episode 2
Jeff Bezos’ net worth increased by 1000% in the last decade — from $18 Billion to $187 Billion.
Amazon’s market cap increased from $114Bn in Q4 2012 to $1.57Tn as of Feb 2022.
Their share price during the IPO was $1.5; today, it’s around $3000. That means $1000 invested in Amazon’s IPO would have been 2.34 million dollars in 2021.
Amazon now owns more than four billion-dollar companies, including the giant Whole Foods Market, and the futuristic startup Zoox that is developing autonomous vehicles.
Amazon is a giant, and Bezos is a genius for creating such a monopolistic global empire. It doesn’t matter if you think he is evil; he is rich, and that’s it.
From being born to a teenage mother to building a trillion-dollar conglomerate, it is a hell of a journey. It takes sharp intellect and a bold personality to achieve what he did.
Let’s take a small tour of Bezos’ life, the journey of a curious and inventive boy becoming a business shark.
LESSONS FROM BEZOS’ LIFE
Jeff Bezos had a quite unordinary childhood than the rest of us. Being born to a teenage mother, life wasn’t easy for them.
Though his biological parents got married, his father wasn’t there for long. His parents got divorced a year after their marriage in 1965. Three years after the divorce, his mother married a Cuban immigrant, Mike Bezos1.
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