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Hitting the Books: How Amazon laundered the myth of the founder into a business empire – Weve heard the fable of the self-made billionaire a thousand times: some unrecognized genius toiling away in a suburban garage stumbles upon The Next Big Thing, thereby single-handedly revolutionizing their industry and becoming insanely rich in the process all while comfortably ignoring the fact that theyd received $300,000 in …