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Opinion
Clark: A generation of VCs lost money on last-mile delivery
“In my personal opinion, yes.”
Dave Clark Jul 17, 2023 ▶ 15:15 Dave Clark: Lessons from Leading 1M Employees w/ Jeff Bezos at Amazon to CEO of Flexport | E1036 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Clark: Amazon culture evaluates people solely on yesterday's performance
“Amazon's a fairly intense place, you know, and it's a you know, Amazon, I think you kind of, you know, it's very, you know, you're as good as what you did yesterday kind of thing. There's not a lot of longitudinal, you know, stickiness in that way.”
Dave Clark Jul 17, 2023 ▶ 23:49 Dave Clark: Lessons from Leading 1M Employees w/ Jeff Bezos at Amazon to CEO of Flexport | E1036 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Clark: Jeff Bezos excels at context shifting and focusing on critical 10%
“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…”
Dave Clark Jul 17, 2023 ▶ 9:21 Dave Clark: Lessons from Leading 1M Employees w/ Jeff Bezos at Amazon to CEO of Flexport | E1036 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Clark: Public perception of Jeff Bezos as a top-down dictator is wrong
“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.”
Dave Clark Jul 17, 2023 ▶ 8:58 Dave Clark: Lessons from Leading 1M Employees w/ Jeff Bezos at Amazon to CEO of Flexport | E1036 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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