Charles Ardai
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Charles Ardai is an American businessman, and writer of crime fiction and mysteries. He is co-founder and editor of Hard Case Crime, a line of pulp-style paperback crime novels. He was also an early e
Ardai at a Midtown Comics signing in Manhattan
Ardai at a May 15, 2024 Midtown Comics signing for Gun Honey: Collision Course #1. Beside him is an advance copy of a reprint edition of the Hard Case Crime novel Lemons Never Lie, which had previously gone out of print.
Jeff Bezos
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Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American businessman, and the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company. According to
Charles Ardai
…its recruiting department, with a goal of hiring "people who really excel in one field or another." Sometime in the early 1990s, Shaw tasked Ardai and Jeff Bezos with coming up with potential online business ideas. While Ardai founded Juno, an internet company, in 1996 with D. E. Shaw as an investor, Bezos went…
Bezos in 2026
Bezos in the Princeton University yearbook, 1986
Bezos (front row, center) at the Robot Co-op in 2005
Bezos in 2010