{"id":670865,"date":"2026-10-14T06:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T06:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=855718"},"modified":"2026-10-14T06:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T06:30:19","slug":"jeff-bezos-parents-put-250000-into-his-1995-internet-bet-despite-a-70-loss-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/14\/jeff-bezos-parents-put-250000-into-his-1995-internet-bet-despite-a-70-loss-risk\/","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\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/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.\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>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 [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/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":1,"featured_media":670866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-670865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}