OMG, Jeff Bezos should buy this house

To view this email in a browser, [click here](. INC. THIS MORNING Good morning, Welcome to Inc. This Morning, a new email that delivers a daily digest of the news curated for anyone interested in entrepreneurship. I’ll keep this newsletter concise and useful, with stories and links--from Inc.com and elsewhere--about the highs and lows of running a company, and the people, companies, and strategies you need to keep tabs on. You can help make the email better by sending me feedback, tips, and ideas to [billmurphyjr@inc.com](mailto:billmurphyjr@inc.com?subject=). I hope you’ll stick around, but if you don’t want to get this newsletter every weekday, just click [here](. Thanks for reading--and being a part of the most inspiring group of people in business. OMG, Jeff Bezos should buy this house The Census Bureau reveals there were [137,403,460 housing units]( in America at the end of 2017. About [63 percent]( of them had garages or carports, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. That works out to 86,564,179 garages. That means either 86.5 million places to store cars and junk--or 86.5 million places to start dreaming big. I'm thinking about this after seeing that a three-bedroom, 1.75-bathroom house at 10704 NE 28th Street in Bellevue, Washington, is for sale. It's a cute little home--and its garage just happens to be [the place where Amazon was launched]( while Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos were renting the place back in 1994. Garages are a particularly American part of the entrepreneurial dream, and [the startup-from-a-garage story]( plays into the history of some of our biggest companies. Among them: HP, Apple, and Google and many others. (Kudos to Hill Country Overhead Door, by the way, which compiled a list of 12 famous ones [here]( Add attics, guest bedrooms, and basements--to say nothing of co-working spaces and coffee shops--to the list of places where entrepreneurs right now are hustling to create their own version of the next big thing, and it's enough to make you get a little emotional. These are the places where founders take an idea, launch it, build it, make money, have an impact--and in the process, maybe become an icon, win the admiration of their peers, and receive blackmail threats from the National Enquirer. OK, maybe not the last part. But the rest of it holds true. Meanwhile, if you're in the market for a 1,500-square foot house, remodeled in 2001 (so it probably looks nothing at all like it did when the Bezos family lived there), it's yours for the low and interestingly specific asking price of only $1,488,888. That works out to 0.001 percent of the Bezos family fortune, just in case either Jeff or MacKenzie wants to pick up a little memento of happier times together. There’s an [open house on Sunday]( if you're in the Seattle area. HERE'S WHAT ELSE I'M READING TODAY: This year’s [annual letter from Bill and Melinda Gates]( contains some very big surprises. --Inc. The letter also uses cute squishy toys to [perfectly explain one of the world’s greatest challenges](. --Inc. [The founders of Lyft want supervoting shares after their IPO.]( --The Wall Street Journal [Tariffs are killing the once-flourishing solar industry]( according to a new report. --Inc. [How to commute to work on a bike in the winter]( (written by a guy in Calgary). --The New York Times [Unpacking President Trump's A.I. initiative.]( --Fast Company This trick can [triple your response rates on cold emails](. --Inc. [I don't think I'd wear one of these]( but I'm not exactly the trendsetter when it comes to men's fashion. --The Wall Street Journal --Bill Murphy Jr. Contributing Editor, Inc.com Story ideas and feedback actively solicited. Find me at [billmurphyjr@inc.com](mailto:billmurphyjr@inc.com?subject=), or on [LinkedIn]( [Facebook]( and [Twitter](. [Click here]( to forward to a friend. This email was sent by: Mansueto Ventures 7 World Trade Center, 29th Floor New York, NY, 10007, [Unsubscribe]( • [Update Profile]( • [View in Browser]( • [Forward to a Friend](