You’re transported back to 1994 with all your current knowledge and $50,000. Your goal is to create the world’s biggest online shopping company.

How do you go about it?

As a further thought experiment, if you travelled back to 1960 with all your current knowledge and the goal of becoming the richest person on earth, what businesses would you start?

  • NeighborhoodHuge5803@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’d want to know if I executed his entire playbook, including poaching his key big hires at every stage, would it ruin him … The dilution of key employees alone could really kill momentum. People like to think they’re replaceable but lose a few key people at a few key times and watch things crumble. On the other hand, Amazon itself feels almost inevitable, like if it wasn’t bezos/Amazon the market forces would have spoke something similar into being regardless

    A fun/creepy part is imagining bezos’s moment of awareness that I have the time machine, then him coming for me and doing who knows what with it lol.