Business Insider – CEO Dave Selinger Speaks About His Amazon Roots
Jeff Bezos Begged This Startup Founder To Work For Amazon And Changed His Life Forever
Julie Bort | Apr. 21, 2013
Sometimes, a person has to be badgered into making a brilliant career choice.
That’s what happened to David Selinger.
Today he is cofounder and CEO of a cool big data company called RichRelevance, backed by $58 million from investors like Greylock Partners’ David Strohm and Tugboat Ventures’ Dave Whorton.
But it almost didn’t happen because he said no, repeatedly, to the job at Amazon that lead him here…