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Truth be told, Jeff's (Bezos) parents put mortgage on their house to invest in their sons business. Kind of far from rich parents in position or owning a mine.
And with the monopoly Amazon now owns, good luck following in those footsteps!
One of the big factors for both Amazon and Microsoft was their timing in the market. They both got in at seemingly the ideal time to explode with the technology.
If either guy had come around a few years later with the exact same product/service, there would have been a lot more competition already in development.
They would have been bought out by one of them