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Fortune
Eleanor Pringle

Jamie Dimon was speaking to Jeff Bezos about joining Amazon before JPMorgan

Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase (Credit: Kent Nishimura—Bloomberg/Getty Images)
  • When Jamie Dimon left Citigroup, he considered everything from setting up his own bank to teaching or writing a book. Ultimately, the lure of the “big game” kept him in the market for corporate America, and the likes of Amazon and Home Depot came knocking.

It’s hard to imagine Wall Street without JPMorgan boss Jamie Dimon—and yet that was very nearly the case if the billionaire banker had chosen differently earlier in his career.

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