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Jeff Bezos tweets 1999 magazine article predicting Amazon failure, Elon Musk awards him silver medal

By Ruth R. Lopez


In 1999, an American magazine predicted the Amazon stock market crash, calling founder Jeff Bezos a mere “middleman”. Now, nearly a decade after the article was published, Bezos – who is among the richest people in the world – reshared the news clipping.

The article titled “Amazon.bomb” appeared in the American weekly Barron’s on May 31, 1999 and predicts the fall of the company’s shares in the face of increasing competition from direct sellers.

“The idea that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos pioneered a new business paradigm is silly,” the article began with a cartoon of Bezos inside a bomb. Dismissing him as “just another middleman,” the article goes on to call direct sellers the “real winners” of the Internet boom. “Net will be companies that sell their own products directly to consumers. “

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While the prediction clearly didn’t come true, Bezos used the magazine cover to tweet an inspiring message. “Listen and be open, but don’t let anyone tell you who you are. This was just one of many stories telling us all of the ways we were going to fail. Today, Amazon is one of the most successful companies in the world and has revolutionized two completely different industries.

The tweet also received a response from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who mocked Amazon founder and responded with a silver medal emoji.

For those who don’t know, in September of this year, Musk became the third person to raise a fortune of $ 200 billion, overtaking Bezos to become the richest man in the world, according to Forbes. In an email interview with the website, Musk had responded that he would send a giant statue of “number ‘2’ to Jeffrey B., as well as a silver medal.”

Since being shared online, the post has gone viral on social media and has sparked a plethora of reactions online.

“Inspirational advice on how to handle criticism with a touch of intelligent and nuanced emotional perspective!” Thanks Jeff! One user wrote, retweeting the viral post.



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