Jeff Bezos

“And then you match with that what he's done personally with the Washington Post. I mean, I think that the Post is, you know, was one of the single best sources of journalism in And, you know, most people expected after he acquired it that it would become sort …”

“Yeah, more for humanity than Trump ever has, and that's a pretty low benchmark.”

“And you know, by the way, it's also investing around two billion in early education in our space, so that one's easy.”

“I guarantee you that if Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos or Mark Benioff ever did a review, a three 60, the people around them aren't saying they're really good listeners. There's a lot of people say, They didn't listen to it, but they are listening, right? They are li…”

“Jeff realized, hey, I actually have to encode my messages and deliver them in a way which makes them memorable, and so I saw him evolve his way of communicating to the company in order to sort of really, like, harden his messages, to make them almost viral, to…”

“We started telling me in 1999. So if you think about the timing of that, we were unbeknownst to us, 18 months from the world coming to an end from a technology investing standpoint. So we had done the things four rounds in one in 12 months. Raised a hundred an…”

“So Jeff Bezos bought a small piece of my shares and David shares. None of his money went into the business. The money went into my bank account and David's bank account.”

“What do you want out of life? And Jeff said to me, I want to evolve. I want to be a better father. I want to be a better friend. I want to be more intimate.”

“Jeff Bezos created more jobs in COVID than any human being on the planet.”

“I think the world tends to think of Jeff as like, you know, it's like Moses coming down from the mountain with the 10 Commandments and is like, Shazam, here is what we shall, and it's not like that.”

“He is one of the best simplifiers, if not the best simplifiers I've ever met, which is he can context shift incredibly well. You have a meeting, you know, this hour on AWS, the next hour on the consumer business, the next hour on labor, and be perfectly in the…”

“And for a long time, I looked at like, you know, Jeff Bezos. I was like, wow, he seems like he has a pretty good life. He's not a pretty happy person. And out today, it seems like he's optimizing his life for Instagram, which is weird.”

“It's really the word honoring your customers that I really love. It's not customer obsession, not Jeff Bezos mentioning a call said customer obsession to me. It's honor your customer.”

“When we took Jeff Bezos out on the road, the first thing that happened was that Barnes and Noble sued him for false advertising because Amazon slogan at the time you may remember was earth's largest bookstore. And Barnes and Noble had no sense of humor about t…”

“If you don't think that like the, you know, sort of Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, et cetera, analogy is not going to be the Musks, the Zuckerbergs, the, you know, sort of Bezos is that almost certainly, you know, sort of will be, you know, the case over the course …”

“You can bucket great founders into three backgrounds. The most common is that you have kind of a messed up childhood. The second most common would be, ah, you're gay, and the third most common would be you were adopted. Look at like a list of all-time greats. …”

“They gotta bring Bezos back.”

“Jeff Bezos's Project Prometheus establishes AI Lab in London.”

“Jeff Bezos retweeted me, which I was ecstatic about.”

“The one company that I've really admired and, you know as the kind of like outlier entrepreneurs, we, in my history going back, like you look at the companies that became great, you know, when I was early days of client, there was like, you know Jeff Bezos and…”

“I had lunch years ago, decades ago, with Jeff Bezos. I was invited to a lunch, and someone smarter than me said, what do you spend your time doing? And he said, 50% of my time is bums on seats. That's never left me.”