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Vanguard: The communist capitalist who saved investors a trillion dollars (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 57:32 Ben Gilbert Jeff Bezos.
The Jamie Dimon Interview: How JP Morgan Became an $800 Billion Bank · Acquired
- ▶ 10:19 Jamie Dimon I went to, I loved, I went to visit Jeff Bezos, who was looking for a president at the time.
- ▶ 10:40 Jamie Dimon It would have been an alternate universe, but I'm still good friends with Jeff, so I got at least one good thing out of it.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 16:49 David Rosenthal Yeah, this is the version of the Jeff Bezos realization where he was like, I gotta leave D.E.
- ▶ 46:14 David Rosenthal Jeff Bezos.
- ▶ 46:21 Ben Gilbert Jeff is sort of the elder statesman of the internet.
- ▶ 46:29 Ben Gilbert I mean, it's kind of crazy that at this point in time, it was little old Larry and Sergey's grad students meeting public CEO Jeff Bezos.
- ▶ 46:49 David Rosenthal So Rahm arranges a meeting, and the next time that Jeff is in Silicon Valley, they all meet at Rahm's house, and similar to Andy Bechdelsheim, Jeff's like, great.
- ▶ 47:05 David Rosenthal And so all in, they end up raising a million dollars, had a ten million dollar post-money valuation, and yes, Jeff Bezos does a quarter of Google's seed round.
- ▶ 47:18 Ben Gilbert You know, we knew about this in the past because we talked about it on the Amazon episode, but whenever I heard someone reference Jeff Bezos was an angel investor in Google, I always thought, well, yeah, but you look at any of these…
- ▶ 47:34 Ben Gilbert But Jeff is a quarter of the money in the seed round.
- ▶ 47:40 David Rosenthal It's Andy, Dave, Ram, and Jeff.
- ▶ 47:43 David Rosenthal Jeff has never said whether he sold any of his Google shares along the way, but by my math, if he didn't, that stake is worth about twenty billion dollars today.
Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:59:40 Ben Gilbert There is a Jeff Bezos quote, and I just thought of it, I don't have it in my notes, but it's something about in the long run, there is no difference between what the customer wants and what Amazon wants.
- ▶ 3:03:53 David Rosenthal It's kind of like the Jeff Bezos quote about AWS in the early days that he wanted to be like an irrational and irresponsible decision not to use AWS.
- ▶ 3:27:53 Ben Gilbert She's totally obsessed with rapidly incorporating feedback from customers, just like Jeff Bezos.
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 2:15:42 David Rosenthal You know, the Jeff Bezos quote about AWS.
- ▶ 2:16:05 David Rosenthal But you know, like this is obvious, so obvious, but obviously Bezos didn't say it directly, and thus I think we don't highlight it enough.
IKEA (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 13:35 David Rosenthal Jim Senegal, Saul Price, Jeff Bezos, Ingrid Comrade.
- ▶ 1:49:41 Ben Gilbert It's almost like the Bezos leadership principles.
- ▶ 1:53:54 David Rosenthal The Last Testament, number nine, is just so early Jeff Bezos' shareholder letter-like that we can't not read it.
- ▶ 2:56:25 David Rosenthal I think they're a merchant at heart, and Ingvar was a merchant at heart in the same way that Sam Walton and Jim Senegal and Saul Price and Jeff Bezos were and are.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:37:23 Ben Gilbert So back to Pilot, and speaking of Bill, we talk all the time on Acquired about one of his Seattle neighbors, Jeff Bezos, and the AWS-inspired axiom that startups should focus on what makes your beer taste better.
- ▶ 4:38:03 Ben Gilbert People are like, what a beautiful thing that Jeff Bezos has imbued into this company.
- ▶ 4:38:45 David Rosenthal Jeff imbued in the company.
Starbucks (with Howard Schultz) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:13:08 David Rosenthal Do you know where Jeff Bezos and Jim Senegal met for the first time?
- ▶ 2:08:58 David Rosenthal We talk all the time on Acquired about Jeff Bezos' AWS-inspired axiom that startups should focus on what makes your beer taste better.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:24:39 Ben Gilbert Well, back to Pilot, and speaking of incredibly successful Seattle business people, we talk all the time on Acquired about Jeff Bezos' AWS-inspired axiom that startups should focus on what makes their beer taste better, i.e. only spend…
- ▶ 2:25:06 Ben Gilbert And accounting is example number one of what he's talking about.
Renaissance Technologies (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 6:17 David Rosenthal There's already kind of echoes of the Bezos story here with the grandfather, the mother's father, and spending a bunch of time with him and rubbing off on young Jeff or young Jim in this case.
- ▶ 6:27 David Rosenthal And Bezos, of course, would get his start in his career at D.
- ▶ 11:01 Ben Gilbert By the way, this is exactly the same thing as Jeff Bezos.
- ▶ 1:28:47 David Rosenthal Yeah, Vanta is the perfect example of the quote that we talk about all the time here on Acquired, Jeff Bezos, his idea that a company should only focus on what actually makes your beer taste better, i.e. spend your time and resources only…
Hermès (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:10:04 David Rosenthal Jeff Bezos, his idea that a company should only focus on what makes your beer actually taste better, i.e. spend your time and resources only on what's actually going to move the needle for your product and customers and outsource…
Novo Nordisk (Ozempic) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:42:18 David Rosenthal Yep, it's the perfect example of a quote we talk about all the time on Acquired, Jeff Bezos' maxim to focus only on what makes your beer actually taste better.
- ▶ 3:00:55 Ben Gilbert So if, you know, Jeff Bezos decided to put his, what does he have, like, nine percent of Amazon, decided to put that into a foundation and call it charitable suddenly, that would be the most charitable foundation, or, you know, up there.
Holiday Special 2023 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:55:46 David Senra Sam Walton, Jim Senegal, Jeff Bezos, Bernie Marcus.
Costco (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:28:44 David Rosenthal So there's a really fun acquired canon, acquired cinematic universe story related to this, which is the famous, as chronicled by Brad Stone in the Everything Store, coffee date between Jim Senegal and Jeff Bezos in 2001, which occurs at…
- ▶ 1:29:18 David Rosenthal Jeff and the organization were embarking on a campaign of raising prices on amazon.com to get profitable, and they had just started this rolling out.
- ▶ 1:29:30 David Rosenthal Jeff has this coffee with Jim, and Jim explains this philosophy to Jeff.
- ▶ 1:29:35 David Rosenthal Jeff comes back to Amazon HQ the next day and is like,
- ▶ 2:12:50 Ben Gilbert In fact, it's what Jeff Bezos meant when he said, your margin is my opportunity, but Costco just runs the playbook so consistently, and when you look at their overhead, the fact that Costco runs at 10, 11% overhead, and Amazon runs closer…
- ▶ 2:15:50 David Rosenthal And Amazon today has really become something else from what Jeff wanted it to be after his coffee with Jim Sinigal.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi · Acquired
- ▶ 1:11:53 Ben Gilbert Ashton Kutcher, Jeff Bezos, Scott Belsky, like 25 others, and who could forget Jason Calacanis.
Lockheed Martin (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:24:12 Ben Gilbert Oh yeah, Bezos' dad worked there, right?
- ▶ 1:24:14 David Rosenthal Uh, grandfather, Bezos' grandfather, was the head of Sandia, which was in New Mexico, the military nuclear program, the division of the U.S. overall nuclear program, I think was out of Los Alamos, but Sandia was the military arm of it.
- ▶ 3:12:47 David Rosenthal Is that because Bezos doesn't want to launch on SpaceX?
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek · Acquired
- ▶ 16:35 Ben Gilbert Yeah, like so many of our favorite companies on Acquired, Statsig is the epitome of the Bezos maxim that companies should
Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- ▶ 13:01 David Senra You can't understand Jeff Bezos until you study Sam Walton.
- ▶ 22:02 David Senra Um, and that's gonna be, like, we can talk about, um, did you guys read Jeff Bezos' last shareholder letter before he.
- ▶ 25:28 David Senra And then you guys made the point in that, you know, Jeff Bezos took a lot of ideas from Sam.
- ▶ 25:37 David Senra Steve and Jeff.
- ▶ 1:01:31 David Senra So Jeff Be-
- ▶ 1:01:34 David Senra You're slightly obsessed with a lot.
- ▶ 1:01:49 David Senra Do you ever, if you ever watched the old Jeff Bezos interviews when he's like first starting Amazon, he's like skinny and bald, like one that's like in that field outside the conference.
- ▶ 1:02:10 David Senra I'm like, you know, but you're like, that dude's a psycho, but Jeff says something that he is, but Jeff says something in invent and wander, which is an excellent book because it's all of his shareholder letters and transcripts of speeches.
- ▶ 1:06:39 David Senra I like reading obscure books because go back to what Jeff Bezos said, differentiation is survival.
- ▶ 1:34:37 David Senra Um, but when you guys were talking a little bit about, like, your business and, like, your, the venture game in general, is I just think of, like, what, um, one of my favorite things that I heard, uh, Jeff Bezos say is, you know, for…
- ▶ 2:11:44 David Senra I don't like that you reference, like, the superpower of the show is that I tie, it's not like, the episode on Ralph Lauren is gonna tell you how Ralph thinks, like, Andrew Carnegie, and Rockefeller, and Bezos, and it's like.
- ▶ 2:29:21 David Senra I don't know if it's true, but it's like, Jeff Bezos' private jet has its own private jet.
- ▶ 2:33:30 David Senra That's a Jeff Bezos thing.
- ▶ 2:33:35 David Senra Every single thing, Jeff is like, we're going to have a lowest cost structure.
Holiday Special 2022 · Acquired
- ▶ 16:41 Ben Gilbert Jeff Bezos is the most studied CEO in the world, I think, until this recent Elon Madness.
Stratechery (with Ben Thompson) · Acquired
- ▶ 25:23 Ben Gilbert Shaw when Bezos was there before Amazon.
- ▶ 1:41:36 Ben Thompson I wrote about from day two to one day or something about Amazon when Bezos sort of like reasserted control a few years ago was like, no, we're gonna do one day delivery.
- ▶ 1:42:08 Ben Thompson And maybe, uh, it was a precursor of what we saw with Jeff Bezos personally of sort of
Enron · Acquired
- ▶ 3:31:56 David Rosenthal Jeff Bezos, acquired podcast.
Benchmark Part II: The Dinner · Acquired
- ▶ 10:54 Peter Fenton Um, Toby from Shopify, um, you know, Jeff Bezos has been, um, we travel to Jeff.
- ▶ 41:12 Peter Fenton It's the, you know, Bezos thing, the long term, there really is no conflict between creating, you know, delighting, and wowing, and yeah, impressing the customer, and creating shareholder value.
ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
- ▶ 15:07 David Rosenthal He was Bezos pre, ah.
- ▶ 15:09 Jason Calacanis No, yeah, it was like Bezos pre, yeah, whatever.
- ▶ 54:31 Jason Calacanis Like, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren attacking Bezos endlessly, and then Amazon starts paying 22 an hour, gives you benefits, and pays for your college.
- ▶ 54:43 Jason Calacanis I know what Bezos just did.
- ▶ 55:07 Jason Calacanis Like, that is literally what Bezos did to them.
- ▶ 1:59:36 Ben Gilbert Does Jeff Bezos count?
- ▶ 1:59:54 Ben Gilbert But you're right, Jeff Bezos is probably the most successful angel of all time.
- ▶ 2:04:07 Jason Calacanis John Dorr would ask Bezos.
- ▶ 2:04:11 Jason Calacanis I mean, we just do Bezos.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 7:44 David Rosenthal Market size unconstrained from Bezos.
- ▶ 12:15 David Rosenthal And Jeff, of course, didn't let that happen, but many entrepreneurs did.
- ▶ 32:25 Ben Gilbert This is the same time Bezos is driving across the country and starting Amazon.
- ▶ 1:14:24 David Rosenthal But it's very different than Jeff Bezos coming from D.E.
- ▶ 1:28:29 Ben Gilbert And would become close with Jeff Bezos.
- ▶ 1:28:31 Ben Gilbert There's a sort of long-standing relationship between Jeff and Benchmark.
- ▶ 1:33:42 Ben Gilbert It's that Bezos quote about in the long run there is zero misalignment between
- ▶ 1:34:19 David Rosenthal Speaking of Jeff Bezos and Amazon, I think we should talk about our next sponsor of this episode, the one and only Pilot.com.
- ▶ 1:35:27 David Rosenthal The Jeff Bezos mega theme that we talk about all the time that we dove deep in the last episode on AWS of, you know, focus on what makes your beer taste better.
- ▶ 1:36:20 David Rosenthal They provide you with a team of experts who this is all they do all day, but they also, and this is what makes Pilot itself such an awesome technology startup backed by Sequoia, Index, Jeff Bezos himself,
- ▶ 2:24:07 David Rosenthal They had the relationship with Bezos, even though Kleiner had the tighter relationship.
- ▶ 2:24:11 David Rosenthal But remember, Bezos was a very influential and large seed investor in Google.
- ▶ 3:40:10 David Rosenthal They invite somebody, you know, Bezos comes every year.
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 9:28 David Rosenthal Jeff Bezos always got technology.
- ▶ 9:41 David Rosenthal So to do that, we need to rewind back, as I said above, to the end of 2001, kind of early 2002, the immediate post.com bubble popping crash era, and Bezos and Amazon, as hard as it is now to remember, he was like an embattled CEO at this…
- ▶ 10:14 Ben Gilbert Isn't it insane to think that the board was sort of in the place with Jeff Bezos thinking we really need some adult supervision to be a, uh, scale CEO and help this guy out.
- ▶ 10:25 Ben Gilbert Freaking Jeff Bezos.
- ▶ 10:26 Ben Gilbert Obviously that did not pan out and Bezos came valiantly riding back in and ran the business for another 20 years.
- ▶ 25:05 David Rosenthal Tim O'Reilly flies up to Seattle and meets with Jeff Bezos.
- ▶ 25:12 David Rosenthal And the reason he wants to come see Jeff, they've had a sort of checkered history in the past.
- ▶ 25:22 David Rosenthal So he has some feelings, but he wants to make the pitch to Jeff.
- ▶ 26:16 David Rosenthal And Jeff totally gets it.
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