But his parents weren't super rich billionaires, were they? No one had a hundred billion dollars before, he didnt get it all from his parents, where did he get it all?

[–] lurklurk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Amazon has been really successful in several domains and he's owned a lot of it from the start

[–] Juice@midwest.social 0 points 1 day ago (12 children)

How does owning something turn into hundreds of billions of dollars? I own things too, they don't turn into hundreds of billions

[–] iii@mander.xyz 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

You need to own stuff that others value

[–] Juice@midwest.social 1 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I'm sorry to ask such elementary questions, but why do others value it?

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 5 hours ago

Amazon: people like books; people like next day delivery of stuff; people and companies like making stuff and running stuff in Amazon web services

Minecraft: Marcus Persson owned the game studio (and wrote quite a bit of the game) that made Minecraft, lots of people like it, Microsoft was willing to buy it for billions

Kiran Mazumdan-Shaw made beer, people like beer. They then used beer making processes to make biotech medicines - people like being alive and will pay a lot to stay alive, or even just a bit healthier

[–] iii@mander.xyz 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It's not an elementary question.

Best I can guess is: plenty of people, plenty of reasons. Which is a stupid answer.

[–] Juice@midwest.social 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

This all seems very far removed from other people's concerns about worker exploitation

[–] iii@mander.xyz 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Is that a problem?

[–] Juice@midwest.social 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

What about their concerns? Are their concerns not a problem?

[–] iii@mander.xyz 1 points 21 hours ago

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