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Why Jeff Bezos Is Not a “Tech Mogul” or “King of E-Commerce”
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Why Jeff Bezos Is Not a “Tech Mogul” or “King of E-Commerce”

The Fallacy of Equating Entrepreneurship with Kingship

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Thomas Walker-Werth
Feb 18, 2022
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Editor’s note: This piece is republished with permission from Foundation for Economic Education.

How did Jeff Bezos become the “King of E-Commerce”? That’s the question Bloomberg set out to answer in a short YouTube video that now has 750,000 views. Unfortunately, their question reinforced an old but erroneous idea: that businessmen who rise to the top o…

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