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March 3, 2010
Posted by Ryan Graves

Me and Jeff Bezos…

…we seems to have a lot in common. In this short interview of Jeff Bezos, now CEO/Founder of Amazon.com, he talks about how he decided to leave his safe cushy job for a startup, Amazon.com. I’ve shared many of his exact thoughts in the process to leaving my safe cushy job at GE to join a [...]

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Posted Under Delivery & Execution People & Leadership

October 2, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves

VC investment may increase because of risk relativity

Imagine you bet on baseball. The Padres are playing the Yankees and your betting the Padres to win. Not a very safe bet, but the returns are awesome when the Padres come through (assume that happened 1 in 10 times). Then a huge steroids bust occurs, 3 Yankee starting pitchers get canned, and only 1 [...]

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Posted Under Economics


  • Hi. I'm Ryan Graves and this is my personal blog. I'm an entrepreneur living in San Francisco, but I'm from San Diego. My wife blogs too, and I love my family.

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