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Sometime back I read a blog post by an early Amazon employee. I am not able to find that blog now, but the title was something on the lines of "The best decision I ever made." In that blog post the author narrated an incident at Amazon involving himself. When that incident happened the author had just joined Amazon. After a few weeks of working there, the author realised that his manager was taking credit for all the work his team members were doing without giving any credit to the team members who actually did the job. So he decided to raise this issue in the all staff meeting. At that time Amazon was a very small company. Jeff Bezos use to conduct the meetings. So when the author raised this issue(without naming the manager) in the meeting, Jeff Bezos replied that life is too short to work on or work for someone where you will not be happy. It is better to keep looking for the things that will make you happy, here or somewhere else.

The author left Amazon in a few days. Driving back home, stopped at a place not knowing what to do next. Decided to do his own startup, and after few false starts finally became a successful entrepreneurs himself.

Just thought of sharing this story here.