Ask HN: Which entrepreneur(s) do you admire the most?

Re:Ask HN: Which entrepreneur(s) do you admire the most? by cperciva on Wednesday September 10, 2008 @07:51AM (#300289)

Jeff Bezos. Not only did he build something people wanted (a better bookstore), but he leveraged that to push forward with other ideas -- computing as a utility (Amazon Web Services), electronic books (kindle), commercial manned space flight (Blue Origin) -- which people have dreamed about for decades.

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Re:Ask HN: Which entrepreneur(s) do you admire the most? by known on Wednesday September 10, 2008 @02:03PM (#300591)

And he did it to prove his point when D.E.Shaw & Co refused to fund the bookstore idea.

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Re:Ask HN: Which entrepreneur(s) do you admire the most? by cperciva on Thursday September 11, 2008 @12:46AM (#301120)

Nothing wrong with wanting to prove a point. If pg hadn't said that single-founder companies rarely work, I probably wouldn't have decided to work on tarsnap.

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