https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/23/jeff-bezos-said-he-has-bernie-madoff-to-thank-for-amazon.html

Jeff Bezos once said he has convicted fraudster Bernie Madoff to thank for his e-commerce empire.

The Amazon founder and CEO left his job at a New York-based hedge fund in 1994 and set out to sell books online, driven off Wall Street in part by competition from Madoff, according to a report from The Washingtonian.