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In August 1994, a little-known entrepreneur posted a job listing to Usenet, a pre-web message board. He was looking for "extremely talented" software developers to "help pioneer commerce on the internet."

The entrepreneur in question was Jeff Bezos, who was taking his first steps towards building Amazon. Bezos is now the wealthiest man not only in the world, but in all of modern history, and Amazon has grown into such a dominant force the FTC has started questioning its rivals about whether they feel crushed by the company.

BNN Bloomberg's Jon Erlichman dug up the vintage job ad last year. It's reproduced below in its entirety: