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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think we all agree," says Mara Friedman, "that a groundhog at a podium is funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cruising Inside Amazon | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...sister Christina was born; a year later, his brother Mark arrived. When the siblings were old enough to get into Jeff's bedroom, he rigged a buzzer to his door that would go off like a burglar alarm. Later, in what his family has come to think of as the "solar-cooker era"--named after a solar microwave he concocted out of an umbrella and aluminum foil--the garage became his laboratory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeff Bezos: Bio: An Eye On The Future | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Bezos figured that the average Net start-up had a 1 in 10 chance of success; he gave himself a 30% chance. "That's actually a very liberating expectation, expecting to fail," he says. That's exactly what he told his first investors--family and friends: "I think there's a 70% chance you're going to lose all your money, so don't invest unless you can afford to lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeff Bezos: Bio: An Eye On The Future | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...says the trick to solving some of the world's problems is to think, Amazon-like, in the long term. "Say you want to solve world hunger. If you think in terms of a five-year time frame, you get really depressed; it's an intractable problem. But if you say, well, let's see how we could solve this in 100 years--it's a problem because you'll be dead by then, but the solution becomes more tractable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeff Bezos: Bio: An Eye On The Future | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...think there may be some glitches, but localized ones," Putnam says. "[Y2K] will not be the major disaster some people think it will...

Author: By M. ARI Behar and Sasha A. Haines-stiles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Y2K Fails to Frustrate Faculty | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

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