Playboy Interview: Jeff Bezos

February, 2000

A brilliant computer scientist and would-be entrepreneur named Jeff Bezos was huddled with his cronies, sipping lattes and crunching biscotti. plotting and planning. The setting was ironic: a cozy café in the Barnes and Noble store in downtown Seattle. Why ironic? Because Bezos and his friends were conspiring to nuke this and every other Barnes and Noble store. What Bezos didn't realize at the time is that they were creating a way of shopping that would change business forever.In 1994 the revolu...

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