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A comment on Friends and Family Funding and Why I'm Dreading Thanksgiving. Parent comment

Re:Friends and Family Funding and Why I'm Dreading Thanksgiving by foobarqux on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @03:13PM (#6803858)
Bezos's parents invested 300k into Amazon or whatever it was called at first.
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Re:Friends and Family Funding and Why I'm Dreading Thanksgiving by SkyAtWork on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @05:28PM (#6804749)
Though Jeff came out of a hedge fund (DE Shaw) and doesn't seem to have been struggling :)
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Re:Friends and Family Funding and Why I'm Dreading Thanksgiving by foobarqux on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @06:25PM (#6805026)
He wasn't struggling but he left before getting his bonus so I don't know how much of his own capital he had to invest.
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