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How do you cap Bezos at $250 million without taking Amazon away from him? > I doubt Jobs, Zuck and Gates would have said "Forget it" if they knew they only had
by solveit 7y ago
How do you cap Bezos at $250 million without taking Amazon away from him?
> I doubt Jobs, Zuck and Gates would have said "Forget it" if they knew they only had the opportunity to acquire a quarter of a billion dollars.
They might have if they knew their companies would be taken away from them at the first sign of success. Jobs was worth well over 250 million in 2001 (probably earlier thanks to Pixar, but cannot confirm at the moment). You would have taken Apple away from Steve Jobs before the iPhone was a pipe dream, and Pixar away from him before Finding Nemo.
Bill Gates was worth 1.25 billion in 1987, and I'm not even going to start talking about what Microsoft did after 1987 (tbf there's a case to be made that MS wasn't so great for the world after 1987, but my point that founders would totally say "Forget it" stands).
- blub 7y agoSo what if they would have said "forget it", what amazing, life changing inventions would we be missing today? Slim laptops with dust-sensitive keyboards? Windows 10 telemetry? The world moves on without larger than life characters. Zuckerberg saying forget it would have been a great thing for everyone except Facebook and its employees, not sure why you even bothered to put him on the list.