Some of these changes are normalâlike Annie's palpitations * âwhile others are more serious. People's hearts naturally speed up with emotion or exercise and slow down during sleep. Other dysrhythmias are associated with heart disease and can be life threatening.
âWork hardâ are the first two words of a company motto. An oft-repeated line from Jeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive, calls the company culture âfriendly and intense, but if push comes to shove weâll settle for intense.â.Itâs hard for me to read this article and not come away with the feeling that something is very wrong, and thereâs a lot of needless burnout and hurt feelings that come from bad elements of company culture,â Mehal Shah, until recently an Amazon engineer, wrote in his own article on LinkedIn.
The Story of Jeff Bezosâ $250,000 Investment into Google in 1998 Written by Jay Turo on Monday, October 5, 2009 To be filed firmly in the categories of the rich get richer and it does usually make sense to be both lucky and good, this weekâs New Yorker notes that Jeff Bezos was one of the early investors in Google. Yes, that Jeff Bezos. Founder of Amazon.com. #33 on last yearâs Forbesâ 400 with a net worth of over $8.7 billion. The story is this - in 1998 when Larry Pageâs and Sergey Brinâs Google offices were a Menlo Park, California garage - Bezos invested $250,000 of personal funds into the fledgling search engine in a $1 million follow-on investment round.