Jeff Bezos Was One Of Google's Early Investors: Here's How Much His $250K Investment Would Be Worth Today
Jeff Bezos Was One Of Google's Early Investors: Here's How Much His $250K Investment Would Be Worth Today
Jeff Bezos is known for making big bets and seeing them through with a tenacity that helped him create a trillion-dollar company like Amazon.com Inc. However, his other bet on a small project back in the late 90s is not known quite as well.
杰夫·贝佐斯以下大赌注而闻名，他坚韧不拔地完成了赌注，这帮助他创建了一家像亚马逊公司这样的万亿美元公司。但是，他在90年代后期对一个小项目的另一个赌注也鲜为人知。
Two 25-year-olds, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, had developed a search engine as part of a project. Although they were on the verge of giving up, to focus on their academics, they persisted and created a product so powerful that it would dominate the search engine landscape for several years, helping create one of the biggest technology companies in the world.
作为项目的一部分，两名25岁的年轻人拉里·佩奇和谢尔盖·布林开发了一个搜索引擎。尽管他们正处于放弃的边缘，转而专注于学术，但他们坚持不懈，创造了一款如此强大的产品，它将在几年内在搜索引擎领域占据主导地位，从而帮助创建了世界上最大的科技公司之一。
Bezos took a bet on these two and invested $250,000 purely because he loved the two Google founders.
贝索斯押注了这两位并投资了25万美元，纯粹是因为他喜欢谷歌的两位创始人。
"I just fell in love with Larry and Sergey," Bezos famously said, according to the book "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It."
根据《谷歌搜索：我们所知道的世界末日》一书，贝索斯曾说过一句名言：“我刚刚爱上了拉里和谢尔盖。”
Bezos' $250,000 investment in Page and Brin helped create what is today the most-used search engine on the internet, where "Google" is now a verb as well in addition to being the name of the company.
贝索斯对佩奇和布林的25万美元投资帮助创建了当今互联网上最常用的搜索引擎，“谷歌” 除了是公司的名称外，现在还是一个动词。
It also underscores Bezos' long-term investment horizons and his ability to see through tough periods instead of a short-term perspective oriented towards making a profit.
这也凸显了贝索斯的长期投资视野以及他度过艰难时期的能力，而不是以盈利为导向的短期视角。
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His vision is also visible in how he steered Amazon first, and then Amazon Web Services, especially after the dot-com crash. The company was weeks away from bankruptcy before Bezos intervened and struck a deal that saved Amazon. Nearly 25 years later, Amazon is now among the world's most valuable companies with a market capitalization of $1.9 trillion.
他的愿景还体现在他如何首先引导亚马逊，然后是亚马逊网络服务，尤其是在互联网崩溃之后。在贝索斯进行干预并达成拯救亚马逊的协议之前，该公司距离破产还有几周的时间。将近25年后，亚马逊现在是世界上最有价值的公司之一，市值为1.9万亿美元。
How Much Bezos' $250K Google Investment Would Be Worth Today
贝索斯在谷歌的25万美元投资今天将值多少钱
Bezos struck gold with his $250,000 early-stage investment in Google in 1998. Not only did Page and Brin see their project through, they laid the foundation of a company that would become the de facto search engine of the world a decade later.
贝索斯在1998年对谷歌进行了25万美元的早期投资，打入了黄金。佩奇和布林不仅完成了他们的项目，还为一家将在十年后成为事实上的世界搜索引擎的公司奠定了基础。
Google went public in 2004, and Bezos' $250,000 investment fetched him 3.3 million shares, worth $280 million at the time. Those shares would now be worth $6.2 billion, adjusted for stock splits, bonuses, and other corporate actions.
谷歌在2004年上市，贝索斯的25万美元投资为他赢得了330万股股票，当时价值2.8亿美元。经股票分割、奖金和其他公司行动调整后，这些股票现在的价值将达到62亿美元。
That is a gain of nearly 25,000 times, assuming Bezos kept his investment and did not cash out. However, Bezos is said to have offloaded his Google stake, although it's not clear exactly when he did so.
假设贝索斯保留投资并且没有套现，则收益将近25,000倍。但是，据说贝索斯已经转移了他在谷歌的股份，尽管目前尚不清楚他究竟是什么时候这样做的。
Bezos' net worth is estimated to be $206 billion today, making him the second richest person in the world, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. However, his $250,000 investment in Google alone would have been enough to make him a billionaire.
彭博亿万富翁指数显示，如今，贝索斯的净资产估计为2060亿美元，使他成为全球第二富豪。但是，仅他在谷歌的25万美元投资就足以使他成为亿万富翁。
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