
This Week in Business History
Episode 31
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This Week in Business History – Episode-31
This Week in Business History
Episode 31
“According to the beforementioned Brad Stone, who wrote the book “The Everything Store”, in 1997 Jeff Bezos was asked to speak to a Harvard graduate school business class about his early stage online store Amazon. It’s been said that the Harvard students weren’t paying a lot of attention to Bezos as he was sharing his story & point of view. And at one particularly entertaining moments: one of the high-falootin’ Harvard students told Jeff Bezos quote “You seem like a really nice guy, so don’t take this the wrong way. But you need to sell to Barnes & Noble and get out now.”
-Scott Luton, Host
In this episode of This Week in Business History, host Scott W. Luton shares ten things about Jeff Bezos that he bets many don’t know. Where is Jeff Bezos from and what was he like growing up? What was the humbling lesson learned at age 10? What advice did the Princeton alum get from Harvard grad students? Tune in to learn the answers to each of these & more.
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