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I had a similar goal few years ago and decided to move countries and take up a job in a new industry.

It didn't quite work out for me in that industry at the end but I certainly did meet people outside by bubble + learn about how the industry works in a fairly detailed manner.

This is not the easiest thing to do, but I would highly recommend it if you have the chance!

I think you have the answer already and IANAL but just to add on, in most countries this a matter of PCI compliance that is enforced by the card networks. In most countries it's not a criminal offence to be PCI non-compliant (but you could be liable for civil suits and fines by the card schemes).

I imagine there's a clause in the PCI compliance rules that allows raw card numbers to be sent less securely if they are virtual + single use card numbers or maybe if the liability of fraud on those card numbers doesn't fall on the "original" card holders.

They should be using an issuing processor (a financial institution that works with Visa or MasterCard) to issue card numbers. Issuing processors can easily generate card numbers programmatically + on the fly.

Lots of friends at Amazon (US, IN, EU) who would categorically disagree on being slave driven. He is more aggressive and less favorable on "perks" than other companies in the bay area, but no where close to a slave driver (and no, I'm not taking you literally here).

I don't have data and so won't make a factual claim but can personally attest that work cultures can get significantly more aggressive / stressful / unreasonable at well funded + known tech companies in Asia. I don't think you realise how high up the totem pole Amazon is when it comes to work cultures and I also don't think you realise that there are many out there who like working at Amazon just because of it's work culture.

That being said, totally concede to the possibility that Amazon / Bezos _could_ have done questionable things starting up. I'm not aware of any but feel free to point them out.

Nope, doesn't really matter if he's the richest or not. I think lots of companies could learn a lot from how Amazon innovates. I don't think you can deny that they are categorically better than many others at their size / scale.

I'm always in awe of Amazon's sustained growth. Bezos has built a company that has innovated constantly (after a tumultuous start in the late 90s) and at scale:

- AWS was launched in 2006 when Amazon had < 15k employees.

- Kindle was launched in late 2007 with 20k employees.

- Echo was launched in 2014 with 150k employees.

It's no surprise he's the richest in history. Will be really interesting to see how he spends his money over the next 2-3 decades.

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