Jeff Bezos, every mention
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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.