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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (118991)3/1/2001 1:44:20 PM
From: Robert Rose  Respond to of 164684
 
<depends on your goal. if your goal was to boost stock price so you could sell over the short term, i'd say bezos was incredibly successful.
i think that WAS the goal.>

i understand your point. but i do believe he would have sold a lot more at much higher prices if that were true. it appears to me that regardless of his wall street acumen, the guy really has believed in his vision.

nevertheless, im sure most of us would be happy with 50m. well, maybe not hj.... <g>



To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (118991)3/1/2001 9:34:35 PM
From: Victor Lazlo  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 164684
 
agreed Skeeter. Bezos won't be cutting anyone's lawn.

He was a hedge fund mgr in his past life and I think as KIS suspected he has hedged his shares, and is a much, much wealthier now than any of us yet know.
Victor