How to Spot a Supertrend - by Mario Gabriele
🌟 Hey there! This is a subscriber-only edition of our premium newsletter designed to make you a better investor, founder, and technologist. Members get access to the strategies, tactics, and wisdom of exceptional investors and founders. Become a member today. Friends, As a hedge fund investor at D.E. Shaw, thirty-year-old Jeff Bezos encountered a staggering statistic: the World Wide Web was growing at 2,300% per year. At first, Bezos wasn’t sure what to do with that information. He came up with the concept of selling books online but still wondered whether he should leave his well-paid investing job, especially before bonus season. Ultimately, he decided to go for it, leaving D.E. Shaw and founding Amazon. “I wanted not to have regrets. I knew for a fact, I have this idea, and if I don’t try, I’m going to regret having never tried,” he said of his decision. Today, Amazon sits in the trillion-dollar club, with a market cap of $1.77 trillion at the time of writing. Bezos’s net worth is
🌟 Hey there! This is a subscriber-only edition of our premium newsletter designed to make you a better investor, founder, and technologist. Members get access to the strategies, tactics, and wisdom of exceptional investors and founders. Become a member today. Illustration by Harol Bustos Friends, As a hedge fund investor at D.E. Shaw, thirty-year-old Jeff Bezos encountered a staggering statistic: the World Wide Web was growing at 2,300% per year. At first, Bezos wasn’t sure what to do with that information. He came up with the concept of selling books online but still wondered whether…
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