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Jeff Bezos 1997 Interview
Chuck Severance
A 1997 interview with Jeff Bezos taped at a Special Libraries conference, where he explains why Amazon started with books and why the web made it possible. He calls it the Kitty Hawk stage of electronic commerce.
HN people share it as a precise, early statement of Amazon's pitch, useful for startup idea reasoning.
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