Jeff Bezos' parents Jacie and Mike, did not invest in the company that became Amazon until 1995. In the movie they gave him their life savings before the company was found. In real life they also gave $100.000,-.
MacKenzie Bezos told Jeff in 1994 that she wants to go back to writing. However she didn't release her debut novel until 2005 and until then she was studying English and was working as a research assistant for Toni Morrison.
Shel Kaphan didn't quit working at Amazon until 1999. Until then he started as VP of R&D and later became CTO.
The business meeting between Jeff Bezos and Leonard Riggio in which they discussed a business deal happened in 1996, also joined by Riggio's brother Stephen. In the movie it happened only between the two of them in 1995.
The real Jeff Bezos's size is 1,71m (5 foot 7), making it 12cm (about 5 inch) shorter than Armando Gutierrez, who portrays him.
When looking at websites about Internet Online Sales via "Netscape Navigator" Jeff Bezos can be seen switching the sites on his browser. However the location (the hyperlink shown on top of the page) always shows "about", which would be only a page about the browser.
When Jeff Bezos arrives in Miami an ad to the "Van Gogh Experience" is visible behind him. It didn't arrive in Miami since 2017 while the scene is set in 1994.
Jeff Bezos' PCs have a FireWire 400 port, which was standardized on computers outside of Apple in 1995. The scene is set in 1994, before founding Amazon.
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