{"id":539,"date":"2025-06-03T05:39:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T05:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/levoshin.com\/?p=539"},"modified":"2025-06-12T21:01:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T21:01:46","slug":"amazon-investment-bezos-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/levoshin.com\/en\/amazon-investment-bezos-family\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcb8 From $10,000 to $1.55 Billion: How Jeff Bezos' Family Made History"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-\u043a\u0430\u043a-10-000-\u0432-amazon-\u043f\u0440\u0435\u0432\u0440\u0430\u0442\u0438\u043b\u0438\u0441\u044c-\u0432-1-55-\u043c\u0438\u043b\u043b\u0438\u0430\u0440\u0434\u0430\">\ud83d\udcb8 From $10,000 to $1.55 Billion: How Jeff Bezos' Family Made History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Convincing someone to invest $10,000 in an online bookstore in the mid-90s - when most people were just figuring out dial-up internet - was no easy feat. 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