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    ‘I had to take 60 meetings’: Jeff Bezos says ‘the hardest thing I’ve ever done’ was raising the first million dollars of seed capital for Amazon

    “The whole enterprise could’ve been extinguished then,” Bezos recalled.

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    December 15, 2025

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    Jeff Williams, who retired from Apple after 27 years, less than a month ago, just got called up by Disney to join its board of directors

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    Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In finds more women leaning out for the first time since the promotion survey began a decade ago: ‘Major moment of backsliding’

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    CEO says he’s started giving job candidates live feedback in the interview—and if they ‘freeze up’ or ‘get offended’ they’re not fit for the role

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    President of $200 billion Shopify says some of the greatest workers he knows only clock in 40-hour weeks: ‘You don’t have to work 80 hours’ 

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