He didn't "risk it all." He was never going to end up on the street in a tent if Amazon failed. And a lot of what he did risk was other people's money. Which

He didn't "risk it all." He was never going to end up on the street in a tent if Amazon failed. And a lot of what he did risk was other people's money. Which is how Amazon works anyway. Everyone who relies on Amazon - the authors, the drop shippers, the small traders, the warehouse staff, the drivers, the white collar employees - can be rug-pulled at any moment for any random reason. And Amazon lives off indirect government welfare. Pay at the low end is so miserly nearly a quarter of employees rely on SNAP.