Jeff Bezos

… You're probably familiar with, again, Jeff Bezos line, your margin is my opportunity and pretty obvious what he meant by that. (00:16:54): I would tell the story at Slack over and over again.

… You know is watching Jeff Bezos from the 80s feels precient. He's like look people always shop.

" And I was like, "Wait, what do you mean you're worth $5 billion? " And he goes, "He can bu...

… makes me think Jeff Bezos has this great quote, if you have an anecdote and data and they're telling you different things, trust the anecdote. Oh, man.

" And it's a really good filter for helping people actually crystallize and know themselves, "Okay, I see. " And I love this is a microcosm of that.

I read somewhere or I heard Bezos say that two-way doors, it's a two-way door. You quickly make a decision.

… I had quarterly meetings with Jeff Bezos. And this was before AWS launched, so it was before Amazon was known in the Valley.

" The other example I like is Skunkworks with Lockheed. When they created a fighter plane in a very short amount of time, and that's how they did it,...

… First off, per your Jeff Bezos anecdote, the anecdote usually trumps the data. And there are many times when I see teams that are doing very sophisticated analysis and they've sort...

… But I'm a huge proponent of Jeff Bezos's one-way doors, two-way doors framework. And I think that especially in a software company, most things are two-way doors.

Again, the Jeff Bezos interview with Lex Fridman, he was talking about how with Blue Origin, with the way Amazon, he thought about Amazon is customer obsession. That was the core goal and differentiator of Amazon.

Maybe just this kind of the coda, which is like you can never rest on your laurels, and we talked about this already, but the history of marketplaces is one of disruption. And the idea with happiness is that, and Amazon and Bezos talk…

… And Jeff Bezos is fundamentally, he's a very scientific and analytical thinker. (00:09:07): His undergraduate degree was in computer science, I'm pretty sure.

… (01:14:35): And the other thing was Jeff Bezos sent this very famous memo, which basically said no more PowerPoint at Amazon. And what that did was started in earnest their six pager ritual.

… One is, reminds me of Amazon, where Jeff Bezos realized there are things that are going to be always true with Amazon. People always want cheaper prices, they want faster shipping.

… One downside that I'm extremely impressed with Jeff Bezos' foreseeing is if you have teams that compete with each other, the incentives are to hide your results, hide your code. And that should make for an o...

… One of the questions we might ask, I actually borrowed a Jeff Bezos question from early stage Amazon where I asked people without much warning in an interview, I'll ask them whether it's okay to do a bit of a thought ...

But really, I think the other thing is, in the book, I talk about this framework that Bezos uses, type one, type two decisions. Is it high impact?

… The Jeff Bezos thing, that the success of today was set in motion three years ago, that product is a layer cake and that you are layering on decisions, the success ...

… One other thing that I use, I got a chance to have lunch with Jeff Bezos. It was probably back in 2008 or something like this.

… I've seen whether it's Brian caring about the full bleed image on the homepage, whether it's Jeff Bezos who famously would receive customer emails, read many of them, forward them, and he's famous for question mark emails where for his…

… When he got the idea for the Segway, he he literally lifted his little pinky and raised a hundred million from like Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos and a who's who of Silicon Valley venture. And then he kept positioning the thing as a…