180 Jeff Bezos (Invention of a Global Empire) — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2021-05-17
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“Customers weren't transported off Amazon when they c- they were, they clicked, but were sent to individual product pages where they make…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: product.
Focus
“Most of your decisions are two-way door decisions, so stop planning and s- and start speeding up your experiments.”
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People
“They were gonna form an independent team to build a service that was separate from the Amazon website and singularly devoted to…”
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Persistence
“And I wanna start with a quote that Jeff Bezos says that it could have easily come out of Thomas Edison's mouth…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: persistence.
Capital
“"And I expect, uh, I accept that Blue Origin will not meet a reasonable investor's expectation for return on investment over a…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: capital.
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