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Re:Coinbase employees petition to remove execs by thinkharderdev on Friday June 10, 2022 @09:17AM (#31693701)
Was Bezos an engineer? I thought he was a hedge fund guy before founding Amazon.
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Re:Coinbase employees petition to remove execs by vecter on Friday June 10, 2022 @10:24AM (#31694644)
He studied Physics at Princeton and had a technical background from what I understand.
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Re:Coinbase employees petition to remove execs by reducesuffering on Friday June 10, 2022 @04:29PM (#31699028)
His degree was in Electrical Engineering and Computer science. He was offered jobs at Intel and Bell Labs, some of the highest technical companies at the time in 1986. He worked at Fitel, a fintech startup for 2 years programming financial networks. Then he went into management.
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Re:Coinbase employees petition to remove execs by crypto420_69 on Friday June 10, 2022 @12:43PM (#31696495)
In a talk at Stanford he said that he coded up Amazon's original HTML website.
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