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CEO of Amazon.com Meets with Students, Addresses Boulder, Colo., Audience.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2000 by Stutzman, Erika
Nov. 8--Espousing such old-economy advice as "follow your passion" and "work for a best-practices company," Internet retailing pioneer Jeff Bezos met with a handful of Boulder students Tuesday.
The meeting between the chief executive and founder of Amazon.com and about 20 University of Colorado students preceded a public address at Macky Auditorium.
Undergraduate engineering and graduate business students peppered Bezos with questions about business and his company in a very informal round-table discussion.
Bezos offered frank-yet-optimistic talk about some of the controversy dogging his firm, and a surprising take on working for startups and dot-coms.
"It is too risky to start a company straight out of school," Bezos advised....
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