"I left my Wall Street job, started an online store, and almost nobody believed in me."
I worked at a top investment firm in New York, the salary was great, the view of the city from the office window was amazing, but I had a void inside.
Then one day I read that the internet was growing at an annual rate of 2300 percent.
At that moment, I decided that I should not miss this opportunity.
I told my boss that I was quitting my job.
He asked, "Are you sick?"
My wife thought maybe I had gone crazy.
Still, I took the car, brought my laptop along, and headed to Seattle with just one dream: to sell books online.
In 1994, people were not even familiar with the concept of 'online shopping'.
We started from a garage.
The server would crash repeatedly.
We would call our friends and tell them to place fake orders, so it seems like we have some customers.
Sometimes I had to sleep on the floor, sometimes on the couch.
When the business started to pick up, the investors said this is just a bubble, you will go bankrupt soon.
And the truth is that we really came close many times.
But I did not give up.
Because every click, every customer kept giving me the power to move forward.
Then came the tough competition.
People copied us, criticized us,
They called me 'the crazy internet guy'.
But when everyone was just focused on selling,
I became obsessed with service.
Every package should be exceptional.
You should arrive quickly.
I founded Amazon on a simple principle:
The customer always comes first.
And with that principle, we made history.
Today we sell everything from books to rockets.
But all this did not happen overnight.
Not easily.
The real secret was just one: perseverance.
Many people will laugh at your ideas.
Even those same ideas led them to jobs, packages,
Or they will start paying salaries.
— Jeff B#MarketRebound $BTC
