Jeff Bezos
5 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 28, 2025 by Daniel Ek · said 135 times in 24 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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brought up most by David Senra (111), Brad Jacobs (9), Jason Fried (5), Brian Armstrong (5), Steve Stoute (1), Patrick O'Shaughnessy (1), John Mackey (1), Daniel Ek (1)
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2026 87 mentions in 18 episodes 5 per episode
- DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Control
- John Mackey: The Dropout Who Changed How America Eats
- Tony Xu of DoorDash: Surviving 1,000 Days of Startup Hell
- Jason Fried: Your Only Competition Is Your Costs
- Brian Armstrong: When Washington Tried to Kill Coinbase
- Jimmy Iovine: Building Interscope Records & Beats by Dre
- Tobi Lütke: 21 Years of Building Shopify
- The Comms Strategist Behind Anduril, Shopify & Cognition | Lulu Cheng Meservey
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2025 48 mentions in 6 episodes 8 per episode
- How Brad Jacobs Built 8 Billion-Dollar Companies
- Daniel Ek, Spotify | David Senra
- CAA Co-founder Michael Ovitz: Failure Is Not an Option
- My Conversation With Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Founder of Colossus & Positive Sum | David Senra
- Michael Dell, Dell Technologies | David Senra
- How Todd Graves Built Raising Cane's
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Everything said about Jeff Bezos, oldest first
Sep 28, 2025 negative
Ek: Trying to imitate Jobs, Bezos, and Gates failed for me
“I certainly tried to mimic Steve Jobs. I certainly tried to mimic Bezos and Gates, and all of the great ones you know, the very charismatic ones, like Howard Schultz of Starbucks, and, you know, I've learned from all of them, and in a way I've tried to imitate…”
Dec 21, 2025 positive
O'Shaughnessy: Devotion to a small circle rivals Elon Musk's business success
“And that is every bit as successful in my mind and in my book as Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos or, you know, pick the people that we all worship. In the business world, I'm amazed by them too, but there are flavors of success, and to me, that sort of devotion, even …”
Jul 26, 2026 negative
DHH: Skeptical of pure capital allocators who have never built anything
“Like, if the only thing you do is money, I'm skeptical of you. If you've built things and you've made money, let's talk. But if it's just about the money and the allocation, I don't know. I'd rather talk to some builders, and Jeff is certainly a builder.”
Jul 26, 2026 negative
DHH: Taking VC funding would have destroyed 37signals without Bezos's backing
“We could not have gotten Jeff's offer, and six months later, some VC would have given us a massive check that sounded super impressive, and it would have destroyed the business, and then we would have sold our independence, and we would have been fucking miser…”