{"id":982302,"date":"2025-12-27T10:59:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T05:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982302"},"modified":"2025-12-27T10:59:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T05:29:50","slug":"amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-i-was-a-little-naive-and-told-all-my-investors-that-they-had-70-chance-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/27\/amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-i-was-a-little-naive-and-told-all-my-investors-that-they-had-70-chance-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon founder Jeff Bezos: I was a little naive and told all my investors that they had 70% chance to &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon founder Jeff Bezos recently talked about the early gruelling days of Amazon. He revealed the challenges he faced while raising seed capital for his fledging online bookstore and admitted that his blunt honesty may have cost him potential backers. As reported by Fortune, speaking at the DealBook Summit with Andrew Ross Sorkin, Bezos revealed the uphill battle of securing the first million dollars of funding for Amazon in 1995. Despite Amazon today boasting a $2.38 trillion market cap and Bezos himself worth $236.1 billion, the company\u2019s beginnings were far from assured.<\/p>\n<p>Bezos talked about the 60 meetings and 40 rejections Amazon faced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon founder Jeff Bezos recently talked about the early gruelling days of Amazon. He revealed the challenges he faced while raising seed capital for his fledging online bookstore and admitted that his blunt honesty may have cost him potential backers. As reported by Fortune, speaking at the DealBook Summit with Andrew Ross Sorkin, Bezos revealed the uphill battle of securing the first million dollars of funding for Amazon in 1995. Despite Amazon today boasting a $2.38 trillion market cap and Bezos himself worth $236.1 billion, the company\u2019s beginnings were far from assured. Bezos talked about the 60 meetings and 40 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}