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.
傑夫·貝佐斯以下大賭注而聞名，他堅韌不拔地完成了賭注，這幫助他創建了一家像亞馬遜公司這樣的萬億美元公司。但是，他在90年代後期對一個小項目的另一個賭注也鮮爲人知。
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.
作爲項目的一部分，兩名25歲的年輕人拉里·佩奇和謝爾蓋·布林開發了一個搜索引擎。儘管他們正處於放棄的邊緣，轉而專注於學術，但他們堅持不懈，創造了一款如此強大的產品，它將在幾年內在搜索引擎領域佔據主導地位，從而幫助創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.
貝索斯押注了這兩位並投資了25萬美元，純粹是因爲他喜歡谷歌的兩位創始人。
"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."
根據《谷歌搜索：我們所知道的世界末日》一書，貝索斯曾說過一句名言：“我剛剛愛上了拉里和謝爾蓋。”
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.
貝索斯對佩奇和布林的25萬美元投資幫助創建了當今互聯網上最常用的搜索引擎，“谷歌” 除了是公司的名稱外，現在還是一個動詞。
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.
這也凸顯了貝索斯的長期投資視野以及他度過艱難時期的能力，而不是以盈利爲導向的短期視角。
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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.
他的願景還體現在他如何首先引導亞馬遜，然後是亞馬遜網絡服務，尤其是在互聯網崩潰之後。在貝索斯進行干預並達成拯救亞馬遜的協議之前，該公司距離破產還有幾周的時間。將近25年後，亞馬遜現在是世界上最有價值的公司之一，市值爲1.9萬億美元。
How Much Bezos' $250K Google Investment Would Be Worth Today
貝索斯在谷歌的25萬美元投資今天將值多少錢
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.
貝索斯在1998年對谷歌進行了25萬美元的早期投資，打入了黃金。佩奇和布林不僅完成了他們的項目，還爲一家將在十年後成爲事實上的世界搜索引擎的公司奠定了基礎。
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，貝索斯的25萬美元投資爲他贏得了330萬股股票，當時價值2.8億美元。經股票分割、獎金和其他公司行動調整後，這些股票現在的價值將達到62億美元。
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.
假設貝索斯保留投資並且沒有套現，則收益將近25,000倍。但是，據說貝索斯已經轉移了他在谷歌的股份，儘管目前尚不清楚他究竟是什麼時候這樣做的。
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.
彭博億萬富翁指數顯示，如今，貝索斯的淨資產估計爲2060億美元，使他成爲全球第二富豪。但是，僅他在谷歌的25萬美元投資就足以使他成爲億萬富翁。
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