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Why AI Demand Is Outrunning Compute Supply
- ▶ 45:36 Gavin Baker And I always think, um, Jeff Bezos said something very interesting.
How Cursor Built One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies
- ▶ 18:22 Matt Bornstein And I know it sounds vague, but, like, things like this, it just, it's, it's almost a Bezos-ish thing.
Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z
- ▶ 51:56 Travis Kalanick I realized this at Uber too, is that I think it may was maybe, maybe Bezos was the guy to sort of really go there, which is, uh, the only constraint to your imagination is management capacity. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:05 Ben Horowitz But, you know, if you're, if you have that level of Jeff's skill, which, like, in terms of 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:22 Travis Kalanick And this is very much, I go back to the Bezos style, which is like your imagination will just keep coming up with new cool ideas.
The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.
- ▶ 39:23 Jonathan Swanson Yeah, Bezos has this, someone follows him around, that goes to every meeting, and
- ▶ 42:25 Erik Torenberg But then it seemed like Bezos and Elon maybe have, like, pretty lean teams.
The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About
- ▶ 43:42 Russ Fraden Jeff Bezos, your margin is my opportunity line.
How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
- ▶ 11:31 Augusto Marietti And then we got a long tail, which was, like, Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt into the funds. 6 times in the scene
Opendoor CEO: Building the Amazon for Homes
- ▶ 3:40 Alex Rampell Amazon started off in the nineties, basically selling every book in the world, hence Amazon in like Jeff Bezos's garage or basement or, you know, the warehouse or something.
- ▶ 40:15 Alex Rampell Very, very sad, despondent shareholder letters that Jeff Bezos have to write before Marketplace appeared a long, long time, and then Opendoor, I think, was on the path that then just kind of got hit with this, like, triple, quadruple, or…
The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1
- ▶ 54:28 unnamed speaker He would say, Hey, Jeff Bezos can take over the Washington post. 2 times in the scene
The Death of Search: How Shopping Will Work In The Age of AI
- ▶ 31:22 Alex Rampell And Amazon, it's, it's interesting, because, like, normally, I remember, um, uh, there's a, there's a speech by Jeff Bezos where he talks about this, like, you know, there are two business models.
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 28:32 Balaji Srinivasan That was just something like, you know, Bezos got the post out of petty cash. 2 times in the scene
Aaron Levie on AI's Enterprise Adoption
- ▶ 29:59 Aaron Levie We, we, uh, uh, so Bezos, you know, famously had this memo oriented, essay oriented kind of meeting structure. 2 times in the scene
Mark Casey (Capital Group): Public Market and Macro Perspectives
- ▶ 4:28 David George One of my favorite stories, and I, I mentioned this to you, I heard from one of your partners, was, uh, you were in a meeting with Jeff Bezos. 8 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 1:21:42 Marc Andreessen And then of course, step two is Jeff started Amazon and then, you know, destroyed, destroyed, you know, destroyed, destroyed, destroyed him.
Startup Building: Major Shifts in Tech & Culture
- ▶ 1:16:34 Ben Horowitz And, uh, and yeah, so that kind of thing ends up being, I think Jeff Bezos used to have a thing where he'd have a day a week where he would like focused on just saying thank you to people, um, which is a strong, you know, Amazon, by the… 2 times in the scene
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 20:31 Chris Dixon Jeff Bezos would say, um, in the same rate, like your, your take rate is my opportunity.
Competing in a Crowd of Incumbents with Mercury's Immad Akhund
- ▶ 13:57 Seema Amble I think Jeff Bezos also has a quote around not being able to predict consumer behavior either.
The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- ▶ 36:35 Peter Diamandis Now, you've had companies, you know, and incredible leaders like Jeff Bezos, or Elon Musk, or Larry Page, who from the beginning had this vision. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:04 Peter Diamandis If I said to you what made Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos,
Rebooting the Arsenal of Democracy
- ▶ 15:40 Palmer Luckey Uh, Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, and other great technology entrepreneurs all had distinct images of the future and how their products would shape it.
The 4th Estate: How Media is Changing in Washington, D.C.
- ▶ 2:01 unnamed speaker You know, it was like the, the Washington Post has sort of just been bailed out by Jeff Bezos in 2014.
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 2:32:58 Balaji Srinivasan So you have Larry Page in Google, you have Zuckerberg in Facebook, you have Steve Jobs in Apple, you have Bill Gates in Microsoft, you have Jeff Bezos in Amazon.
What's Next for the Internet?
- ▶ 10:28 Chris Dixon They have to, like, unless they're the, you know, maybe Jeff Bezos is an exception or something, but, like, for the most part, like, you want to keep your job as a manager of a company, and you've got to manage to a one to three year time…
10+1 Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Justin Kan
- ▶ 47:30 Justin Kan And so, you know, if Bezos had been like year, you know, like 15, which is a long time to be starting a company,
a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- ▶ 43:50 Brian McCullough Because we know Bezos is so analytical, right? 10 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | New Upstarts in an Old Industry
- ▶ 18:51 Ben Horowitz Jeff Bezos will never build a five billion dollar campus because he doesn't care about what the doorknob looks like.
a16z Podcast | Seeing into the Future -- Making Decisions, Telling Stories
- ▶ 44:48 Sonal Chokshi Like, when they think about, like, Jeff Bezos does this, and Elon Musk does that. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Principles and Algorithms for Work and Life
- ▶ 24:42 Sonal Chokshi I heard Bezos actually tell a story about this. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Feedback Loops -- Company Culture, Change, and DevOps
- ▶ 26:02 Sonal Chokshi I think I heard Jeff Bezos say the best line. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Platforming the Future
- ▶ 16:07 Tim O'Reilly I remember actually seeing Jeff Bezos in
a16z Podcast | The Strategies and Tactics of Big
- ▶ 22:25 Benedict Evans If you want to add more categories, you don't need to add another direct report to Jeff Bezos.
- ▶ 28:14 Steven Sinofsky I remember early, early on in like the 1995, you know, Jeff Bezos like doing books and telling people locally in Seattle, like at small dinners and stuff like, well, we're definitely only doing books because he had this very special…
a16z Podcast | The Curious Case of the OpenTable IPO
- ▶ 28:23 Jeff Jordan Look at Jeff Bezos.
a16z Podcast | Tech and Entertainment in the 'Era of Mass Customization'
- ▶ 36:34 Reed Hastings But I say that, and then I look at Jeff Bezos, and I think not only is he running one of the most amazing companies in the world, 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Movement of Money
- ▶ 26:01 Patrick Collison Uh, and there's kind of an alternate perspective on it where we're, it's kind of like the Jeff Bezos quote that it's still day one and the vast majority of the businesses that are going to be huge in 20 or 30 years are yet to be started.
a16z Podcast | Sleep!
- ▶ 8:13 Ariana Huffington There are CEOs like Jeff Bezos who are coming out now and saying, I sleep for eight hours. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:47 Sonal Chokshi I think part of the solution here then is that when that awareness comes in with leadership at institutions, and that includes Bezos, then you have, people have to find a way of concretely operationalizing that.
a16z Podcast | E-commerce, Payments, & More in India's Evolving Retail Landscape
- ▶ 14:27 Anu Hariharan Uh, and I remember Bezos in his interviews has said that he, you know, they went to the largest warehouse, uh, which had books and, you know, when people placed orders online would drive and
a16z Podcast | Investing in (Business and Career) Change
- ▶ 6:09 Marc Andreessen So Jeff Bezos never does a turnaround at Amazon.
- ▶ 15:33 Marc Andreessen When Ben and I were raising our, we were raising our, we actually went and pitched, uh, one of our early investors, Jeff Bezos, and he actually asked us, do you guys really want to go back to kindergarten? 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | How to Be Original and Make Big Ideas Happen
- ▶ 28:24 Adam Grant Jeff Bezos and Sheryl Sandberg both said A Wrinkle in Time.
a16z Podcast | Things Come Together -- Truths about Tech in Africa
- ▶ 39:23 Sonal Chokshi Well, it's fascinating too, because what you're, what you're describing is competition everywhere, but there's also a factor here where there's a power differential between, as you mentioned, access to capital, access to, you know, it…
a16z Podcast | The Tiger and the Dragon -- On Tech and Startups in India and China
- ▶ 3:24 Anu Hariharan For example, Jeff Bezos has said this many times. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Future of Entertainment and What David Petraeus and the Olsen Twins Can Teach Us
- ▶ 10:33 Marc Andreessen Jeff Bezos. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | How to Lead, Not Manage Your Board
- ▶ 21:34 Spencer Rascoff Um, we switched about a year ago to a memo system after Bezos and Amazon's, um, model of kind of no PowerPoint, um, for, for one or two meetings in a row.
a16z Podcast | Everything You Need to Know About Amazon
- ▶ 0:18 Ben Horowitz Ah, on the one hand, there are people who say it's the greatest company in the world, and Jeff Bezos is a genius, and, and, ah, you should put all your money in it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:44 Benedict Evans And for Amazon, you've got exactly the opposite story, that instead of taking, putting a hundred and fifty billion dollars in the bank, he's put a hundred and fifty billion dollars into building new warehouses, and AWS, and new countries,… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:10 Benedict Evans Whereas Bezos doesn't have to go back to his LPs. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:23 Benedict Evans Um, and, you know, for Jeff, it's like, um, you know, it's like somebody asked Adnan Khashoggi if he was the richest man in the world, and he said, well, you can only sleep on one bed at a time. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:33 Ben Horowitz Uh, on Amazon is that it's kind of both a platform and an application in the sense that they build a big, you know, particularly on the e-commerce side and on the AWS side, um, an infrastructure that other merchants use and so forth, and…
- ▶ 17:22 Ben Horowitz Jeff Bezos is, in fact, a genius, and you should put all your money into Amazon, because it is an amazing company.
The End of the Beginning
- ▶ 3:36 Benedict Evans I suspect if you, um, point this out to Jeff Bezos, then that line about your margin is my opportunity starts coming to mind.
- ▶ 23:24 Benedict Evans This adorable young man is called Jeffrey Bezos. 5 times in the scene
Challenges in Healthcare Innovation
- ▶ 18:56 Jorge Conde But what's also true is, as Jeff Bezos has famously said, when there's big margin, there's opportunity, and that hasn't escaped Amazon.
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2016
- ▶ 20:00 Benedict Evans But then when I look at that chart, and I'm reminded of the line from Jeff Bezos, that your margin is opportunity, is my opportunity.
Mobile Is Eating the World, 2015
- ▶ 24:08 Benedict Evans Um, and you can see here exactly what Jeff Versauss is trying to do. 7 times in the scene