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by bigbird 5351 days ago
Bezos started out on "Wall St", working at D.E. Shaw in NYC.
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kanwisher 5351 days ago
D.E Shaw was starting Internet startups in the early 90s, Bezos pitched them Amazon and they did Netzero instead so he headed west
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gaius 5351 days ago
DE Shaw isn't exactly white-shoe.
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kalleboo 5351 days ago
And then he left.
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