Jeff Bezos Was Once Told By A Harvard Student To Sell Amazon To Barnes & Noble And ‘Get Out’: The Entrepreneur Did This Instead

All NewsNovember 2, 2025

A Harvard MBA student advised Jeff Bezos to sell Amazon to Barnes & Noble in 1997. Bezos instead doubled down on technology and expanded globally, becoming a retail juggernaut while Barnes & Noble struggled.

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