1999 ’60 Minutes’ interview shows Amazon before it was the mega-company you know now

Jeff Bezos is now the richest man in the world, surprisingly buff, and working toward putting millions of people into space.

But back in July 1999, he was just a lowly billionaire working out of a dingy Seattle office on Amazon.com, then still an oddity.

A 60 Minutes segment entitled “Nerd of the Amazon” provides a window back into that era, when Bezos back just seemed like a dorky founder who still drove a Honda Accord. 

The origin story of Amazon is now widely-known. Bezos left a well-paying Wall Street job with not destination in mind. He chose Seattle on the way, along with the notion that he would sell books online. Read more…

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