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Want to see a great company story? Read Jeff Bezos’s three-page letter he wrote to shareholders in 1997. In telling Amazon’s story in this extended form — not as a mission statement, not as a tagline — Jeff got all the people who mattered on the same page

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Ben Horowitz (born June 13, 1966) is an American businessman, investor, blogger, and author.

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