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  • Doesn't seem like either of them had to climb out of a gutter...

    I think you might be under the mistaken impression that being a regional director to a US agency in the 1970s was a big money job.

  • Apparently he was one of the biggest land owners in Texas.
    Bezos parents invested 250 grand into Amazon in the first year of business...

  • Apparently he was one of the biggest land owners in Texas.

    I read that his grandfather owned a 25,000 acre ranch in Texas that Bezos later purchased and increased to 250k acres, which makes it about barely in the top ten ranches in Texas in 2022.

    Bezos parents invested 250 grand into Amazon in the first year of business...

    I did not know this.

    Anyway, my opinion of him growing up in poverty was based on his parents ages and the fact that his Mum had to quit day time High School (she was 17) to raise him. Shows I shouldnt make assumptinos really.

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