12 The Right Way to Make a Big Career Transition
by Utkarsh Amitabh
When Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was deciding when to quit his well-paying hedge fund job, he went to his boss and told him that he was thinking of selling books online. He had already been talking to him about the power of the internet, but for the first time he was seriously considering quitting to become an entrepreneur. His boss was startled to hear that someone would actually leave a coveted investing job to work on something with so many unknowns. After all, aren’t good investors experts in evaluating risk?
His boss decided to take him out for a two-hour walk in Central Park in New York City. He wanted to understand what was going on in Bezos’s mind. During the walk, ...
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