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After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion and I'm proud of that choice.

This was Jeff Bezos on the 1995 founding of Amazon.com, a bookseller in the then uncharted territory of online retail.

In his self-mathologizing, Bezos' path from a one man's start-up to the wealthiest human and world history was due to his own ingenuity and scrappy hard work.

In the early years, operating out of his garage, Bezos would drive orders to the post office himself.

But the cueball billionaires less safe path amidst a key detail.

A $240,000 loan from his parents, they made his passion possible.

As online retail became commonplace, Bezos' garage-founded virtual shop grew beyond books to become an all-encompassing internet department store

and expanded its business to include content streaming in its biggest revenue generators, web services, and cloud computing.

In June of 2017, Bezos' now mega-corp, seeking a foothold for its burgeoning, grocery delivery service Amazon fresh,

acquired an Austin-based high-end organic supermarket chain founded in 1978 as Staforway natural foods.

And so the world's largest online retailer became a major player in the supermarket sector.

Today on the broken backs of his workers and warehouses and vans and now grocery stores, who skip bathroom breaks or brave COVID to meet unreasonable quotas,

Bezos is a billionaire many times over, with enough wealth to solve multiple world crises single-handedly and still afford his vanity space program.

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