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>Anyone else have the sneaking suspicion the deep state hit steve jobs w the cancer gun bc he wouldn’t sell all our tech secrets to China or whoever?
Yes. Very close to 100% certainty. You either accept to play the game for a chance to keep breathing or you leave the game, the biggest game of your life where you only get one life.
Jeff Bezos was in a chopper crash in 2003. How many dots must there be for a spider web to see?
>JEFF BEZOS is feeling a tad cocky lately. That might seem like a dog-bites-man observation for the founder of Amazon.com, a man so obsessed with brain power that he started a science-and-literature summer school for children after his freshman year at Princeton and once hired only college graduates to staff the customer-service phone lines at his company.
>Still, it's been a rough turn of the millennium for Mr. Bezos, now 38. At the peak of the Internet mania in 1999, Amazon's stock soared above $100 and he was Time magazine's Man of the Year, lionized for guaranteeing that the world of buying and selling will never be the same.
Then a harsher reality set in. Amazon's stock plunged, to as low as $5.51 in last fall, and at least one bond analyst, Ravia Suria, then at Lehman Brothers, was predicting that the hemorrhaging giant would run out of cash. (Since its inception in 1995, the company has lost roughly $3 billion and at the height of dot-com hoopla in early 2000 was accumulating losses at the rate of $300 million a quarter.) Mr. Bezos even found himself serving as the main foil of a comic monologue in a popular one-man play, 21 Dog Years: Doing Time at Amazon.com, by Mike Daisey, a former customer service agent.
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/19/business/amazon-ii-will-this-smile-last.html
By LESLIE KAUFMANMAY 19, 2002
Interesting, because post 2003, the dots started to glow very interestingly. Is that a proper adjective?
Amazon.com Inc.'s net revenue and net profit both grew healthily in its fourth quarter and helped the online retailer close 2003 with a profit, a first for the company, it announced yesterday.
Net revenue in the fourth quarter, which ended Dec. 31, 2003, rose 36% to $1.95 billion compared with 2002's fourth quarter. Net profit grew to $73 million, or 17 cents per share, compared with net profit of $3 million, or 1 cent per share, in 2002's fourth quarter.
For the full year, net revenue grew 34% to $5.26 billion. Net profit came in at $35 million, or 8 cents per share, compared with a net loss of $149 million, or 39 cents per share, in 2002.
Excluding one-time charges, Amazon's pro forma fourth-quarter net profit was $125 million, or 29 cents per share, meeting the consensus expectation from financial analysts polled by Thomson Financial/First Call.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2575106/amazon-records-first-profitable-year-in-its-history.html
TECHNOLOGY; Amazon Reports First Full-Year Profit
By SAUL HANSELLJAN. 28, 2004
The profit of $73 million, or 17 cents a share, was up from $3 million a year ago. Excluding some charges related to its debt, stock compensation and other items, Amazon earned $125 million, a 67 percent increase. That works out to 29 cents a share, matching the average forecast from analysts.
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The company earned $35 million for all of 2003, its first full-year profit since it began operations in 1995. It lost $149 million in 2002.