In 1994, Jeff Bezos held 60 meetings with family members, friends and potential investors in an attempt to persuade them to each invest US$50,000 in his revolutionary idea to create an online bookshop.
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2143375/1994-he-convinced-22-family-and-friends-each-pay
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