{"id":87843,"date":"2026-10-14T09:05:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=87843"},"modified":"2026-10-14T09:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:05:48","slug":"jeff-bezos-parents-put-250000-into-his-1995-internet-bet-despite-a-70-loss-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=87843","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos\u2019 Parents Put $250,000 Into His 1995 Internet Bet Despite a 70% Loss Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/jeff-bezos-wants-earth-as-a-garden-planet-by-moving-heavy-industry-to-space-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Jeff Bezos at an event.\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jeff-bezos-wants-earth-as-a-garden-planet-by-moving-heavy-industry-to-space-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jeff-bezos-wants-earth-as-a-garden-planet-by-moving-heavy-industry-to-space-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/jeff-bezos-wants-earth-as-a-garden-planet-by-moving-heavy-industry-to-space-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jeff-bezos-wants-earth-as-a-garden-planet-by-moving-heavy-industry-to-space-190x107.png 190w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jeff-bezos-wants-earth-as-a-garden-planet-by-moving-heavy-industry-to-space-380x214.png 380w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jeff-bezos-wants-earth-as-a-garden-planet-by-moving-heavy-industry-to-space-760x428.png 760w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jeff-bezos-wants-earth-as-a-garden-planet-by-moving-heavy-industry-to-space.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">In 1995, Jeff Bezos pitched his parents, Miguel and Jackie Bezos, on an online bookstore and they put $250,000 of their savings into the idea after he warned there was a 70% chance they would lose everything. That early stake, bought at roughly 17 cents a share for 1,430,244 shares, later ballooned to a value [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1995, Jeff Bezos pitched his parents, Miguel and Jackie Bezos, on an online bookstore and they put $250,000 of their savings into the idea after he warned there was a 70% chance they would lose everything. That early stake, bought at roughly 17 cents a share for 1,430,244 shares, later ballooned to a value [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}