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If you ever doubted the terrifying, monopolistic ambitions of Jeff Bezos from day one, look at his original domain choices. Before settling on the largest…
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin explicitly offered to sell their nascent search engine algorithm to Yahoo for a shockingly low one million dollars in 1998, but…
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