{"id":243580,"date":"2026-09-03T13:07:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/how-jeff-bezos-started-amazon-jeffbezos-amazon-successstory"},"modified":"2026-09-03T13:07:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:07:21","slug":"how-jeff-bezos-started-amazon-jeffbezos-amazon-successstory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/how-jeff-bezos-started-amazon-jeffbezos-amazon-successstory","title":{"rendered":"How Jeff Bezos Started Amazon #jeffbezos #amazon #successstory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yIFiDCPGWQw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this rare 1997 interview, a young Jeff Bezos explains the brilliant, mathematical logic behind the founding of <a href=\"http:\/\/Amazon.com\">Amazon.com<\/a>. After seeing that web usage was growing at 2,300% a year, Bezos systematically made a list of 20 products to sell online. He chose books because there were over 3 million active titles in print\u2014a volume of inventory that allowed him to build an online store that simply couldn\u2019t exist in the physical world. Jeff Bezos is the founder and executive chairman of Amazon, and one of the most successful entrepreneurs in modern history. #Entrepreneurship #Success #Business #Startup #Mindset #JeffBezos #Amazon #TechHistory \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this rare 1997 interview, a young Jeff Bezos explains the brilliant, mathematical logic behind the founding of Amazon.com. After seeing that web usage was growing at 2,300% a year, Bezos systematically made a list of 20 products to sell online. He chose books because there were over 3 million active titles in print\u2014a volume [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}