Bezos
person on 6 shows · 9 statements across 7 episodes
Founders 
My First Million 
the a16z Podcast 
Big Technology 
All-In 
20VC
9 statements about Bezos, every show
A dreamy business requires customer love, massive scale, capital returns, and durability
“A dreamy business offering has at least four characteristics. Number one, customers love it. Number two, it can grow to a very large size. Number three, it has strong returns on capital. And number four, it is durable in time with the potential to endure. Ther…”
Companies must always take bets offering a 10 percent chance of 100x payoffs
“Outsized returns often come from betting against conventional wisdom, and conventional wisdom is usually right. Given a 10% chance of a 100 times payoff, you should take that bet every time. But you're still going to be wrong nine times out of 10.”
Business has uncapped long-tail returns where one winner funds countless failed experiments
“The difference between baseball and business is that baseball has a truncated outcome distribution. When you swing, no matter how well you connect with the ball, the most runs you can get is four. In business, every once in a while, when you step up to the pla…”
O'Brien: Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are using TRT to get jacked
“Look at Bezos and Zuckerberg. They're getting jacked. Like they're doing TRT.”
Enjeti: Zuckerberg, Pichai, and Bezos Political Flip-Flopping on Trump Is Cartoonish
“And so, in a weird way, I really respect the way that Tim Cook has handled the entire Trump era. It doesn't seem as dizzying as the Mark Zuckerberg, or the Sundar Pichai, or even Bezos. I mean, it's just cartoonish, you know, in my opinion, to see these people…”
Puri: Jeff Bezos invested $250K early in Google
“Bezos invested 250 K pretty early in Google as well, which is kind of wild.”
Prince: Elite founder success requires identity to become the company
“To be as successful as Gates, to be as successful as Bezos, to be as successful as Benioff, not only do you have to love it, but it becomes you.”
Calacanis: Jeff Bezos will run for US president in 2024
“Bezos is going to run for president in 2024. This is why he retired.”
Evans: Bezos operates Amazon like a venture fund that never returns capital
“The difference is at some point we have to go back to our LPs and say, well, we're kind of done with that bunch of companies and here's your three or four X return. Right. Whereas Bezos doesn't have to go back to his LPs. People are just willing to let him kee…”