Jeff Bezos Urges Gen Z Entrepreneurs To Gain Work Experience Before Launching Startups

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Jeff Bezos told aspiring founders that real-world experience is key to startup success, calling college-dropout success stories the exception. He urged young entrepreneurs to first work at top companies to master hiring and management. Bezos, who founded Amazon at 30, said his decade of prior experience was crucial — and called Blue Origin his most important work.

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00:00It's Benzinga, bringing Wall Street to Main Street.

00:02Amazon founder Jeff Bezos told young entrepreneurs that gaining real-world experience before

00:06launching a startup can improve the odds of success.

00:09Speaking of Italian Tech Week, he said college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates

00:13are the exception rather than the rule.

00:15Bezos advised working at a best practices company, sort of essentials such as hiring

00:19and interviewing, knowing that his decade of experience before founding Amazon at age

00:2230 made the company's success more likely.

00:25Princeton graduate considers Blue Orange as the most important work of his career.

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