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Bezo’s invests in 37 signals
Posted by Rod in TechBiz at 12:23 pm on Friday, 21 July 2006

Amazon founder invests personally in 37 Signals.  If Web 2.0 wasn’t hot before its red hot now.

Interesting comments from the investee’s …

We’ve never been interested in the typical traditional VC deal. With a few exceptions, all the VCs could offer us was cash and connections. We’re fine on both of those fronts. We don’t need their money to run the business and our little black book is full. We’re looking for something else.

What we’ve been looking for is the wisdom of a very special entrepreneur who’s been through what we’re going through. Someone who sees things a little differently and makes us feel right at home. Someone with a long term outlook, not a build-to-flip mentality. We found a perfect match in Jeff. Jeff is our kinda guy.

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