Jeff Bezos
3 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Aug 26, 2019 by Eric Ries · said 40 times in 23 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Anthony Scaramucci (6), Khe Hy (5), Tom Russo (3), Sanjay Ayer (2), Richard Tedlow (2), Morgan Housel (2), Jim Falbe (2), Chris Dixon (2)
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 2 mentions in 1 episode
2024 9 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Chris Dixon - Empty Rooms: Web3 After the Fall (EP.380)
- Sanjay Ayer – Think Different and Get Better at WCM (EP.366)
- Morgan Housel – Same as Ever (EP.359)
- David Salem - Investment Wisdom from the Owner's Box (EP.409)
- Alexis Ohanian – From Reddit to 776, a Technology Company that Deploys Venture Capital (EP.388)
- Brian Christiansen – High-Conviction Growth Investing at Sands Capital (EP.361)
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 8 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
2022 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- Annie Duke – The Power of Quitting (Capital Allocators, EP.273)
- Paul Enright – Inside Long-Short Equity Investing (Capital Allocators, EP.266)
- Avichal Garg – Programmer-Centric Crypto Investing at Electric (Manager Meetings, EP.34)
- Kathy Xu – Venture in China at Capital Today, Venture is Eating the Investment World 12 (Capital Allocators, EP.243)
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2020 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2019 10 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- Khe Hy – Radical Shift from Investing to Purpose (Capital Allocators, EP.101)
- Thomas Russo – All About Google (Capital Allocators, EP.90)
- Scott Kupor - Andreessen Horowitz (First Meeting EP.07)
- Eric Ries – Lean Start-Ups and the Long-Term Stock Exchange (Capital Allocators, EP.107)
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2017 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Jeff Bezos, oldest first
Aug 26, 2019 bearish
Jan 1, 2024 neutral
Housel: Outlier Founders Like Musk and Bezos Are Tortured, Not Ambitious
“Patrick said the phrase that he would use to describe their personality is not driven by It's not ambitious. It's tortured. They wake up every morning tortured that they are not more successful, bigger, richer than they are. And I think that's true for virtual…”
Feb 5, 2024 negative
For every Jeff Bezos, dozens of visionary founders derail companies with stubbornness
“We found for every Bezos or Hastings, there's dozens of examples we've encountered of these setups where a founder can actually run a company off the rails because the idea proved to be flawed. And you can imagine these scenarios where the founder has a track …”