This didn't age well:<p>Bezos has been characterized as yet another fuzzy-cheeked geek who lucked into an IPO, an uninspired financial technician with a good but not very original idea about distributing goods over the Internet, who would soon be, in the ill-fated phrase of Forrester Research president
George Colony, "Amazon.toast."<p><a href="https://www.wired.com/1999/03/bezos-3/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wired.com/1999/03/bezos-3/</a>