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Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible
- ▶ 1:16:31 David Senra Bezos has this great line about building Amazon. 2 times in the scene
Excellence Is the Capacity To Take Pain | Travis Kalanick, Founder of Uber
- ▶ 32:23 David Senra Very Bezos.
The Comms Strategist Behind Anduril, Shopify & Cognition | Lulu Cheng Meservey
- ▶ 40:12 David Senra I remember sitting across from Bezos, Jeff Bezos one time, I got to talk to him for several hours, which was incredible. 4 times in the scene
DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Control
- ▶ 1:26:20 David Senra You bought the yellow Lambo after Bezos bought into a chunk. 18 times in the scene
The $44 Billion Company Automating Your Company's Finances
- ▶ 38:19 David Senra Uh, and so you're speaking to this Bezos idea where it's like, yeah, 2 times in the scene
Why Asking the Right Questions Is the Most Important Skill in the AI Age
- ▶ 19:44 David Senra This is in every book on Bezos.
The Marketing Genius of Steve Stoute
- ▶ 34:56 Steve Stoute This is what you talk about that you learned Jeff Bezos knew about selling windshield wipers.
- ▶ 58:26 David Senra I've talked to Jeff Bezos about this, to Daniel, like they see what under, like they get it completely.
The Company Apple Couldn't Kill | Spotify Co-CEO Gustav Söderström
- ▶ 49:34 David Senra And it reminded me when you said that earlier, I was like, oh, you go back and read Jeff Bezos' shareholder letters.
Ivanka Trump on Building an Authentic Life
- ▶ 20:21 David Senra And then people like Jeff Bezos happened to pick up the book and use some of those ideas to build Amazon, which made
- ▶ 1:21:41 David Senra The reoccurring theme in all these biographies that I've read, the 400 plus biographies that I've read, it's just like, new ideas are so fragile, and it's so easy to kill an idea prematurely, and to not let it grow, and you just have to… 2 times in the scene
Bootstrapping a Business to $5 Billion in Free Cash Flow | AppLovin’s Adam Foroughi
- ▶ 9:57 David Senra Obsessed over customers is a maxim that is repeated by Jeff Bezos, and you definitely see that with Adam.
Evan Spiegel, Snapchat: Building a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
- ▶ 1:30:46 David Senra I've never come across another person that gives me, like, young Jeff Bezos vibes. 2 times in the scene
Tony Xu of DoorDash: Surviving 1,000 Days of Startup Hell
- ▶ 39:39 David Senra I spent, uh, several hours at Bezos, uh, one-on-one, and, uh, I'm obviously a massive fan of his. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:17 David Senra This is like, Bezos has that line about Amazon Prime.
- ▶ 58:31 David Senra Something that, again, I want to compare your story to Bezos, because I just think every time I hear you speak, I hear a lot of, uh, Bezos. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:31:08 David Senra I just be remiss not to mention this, because again, I don't know why every time I hear you speak and not having this conversation with you personally, it's like there's just so much like Jeff Bezos-esque stuff going on here.
How Elon Thinks
- ▶ 11:03 David Senra I love, uh, Jeff Bezos' quote on this. 2 times in the scene
Brian Armstrong: When Washington Tried to Kill Coinbase
- ▶ 10:06 David Senra Obsessed over customers is a maxim that is repeated by Jeff Bezos.
- ▶ 1:06:22 David Senra Like, Bezos had the everything store.
- ▶ 1:19:25 Brian Armstrong Actually, Bezos did that too, right? 5 times in the scene
Jason Fried: Your Only Competition Is Your Costs
- ▶ 28:22 David Senra I don't think anybody's saying, Jeff Bezos, I know he owns a partner of yours, he owns a percentage of your company, you know, he railed about this forever. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:15 Jason Fried Something Jeff Bezos told me, which, which I've always kept close at heart, because I've, I've examined the things I've come into enjoying doing.
- ▶ 1:02:37 David Senra Do you do it like Bezos, where they write it before the product is created?
- ▶ 2:06:52 Jason Fried This actually ties into some other advice that Jeff gave us, uh, 4 times in the scene
Jimmy Iovine: Building Interscope Records & Beats by Dre
- ▶ 11:30 David Senra Jimmy knew, just like Steve Jobs knew, just like Jeff Bezos knew, that you always bet on talent. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:49 unnamed speaker There's actually a lesson for entrepreneurs in there too, because, um, I reread Jeff Bezos' shareholder letters like three or four times.
- ▶ 1:11:44 David Senra I read something Jeff Bezos said that changed my perspective on the importance of high quality sleep. 3 times in the scene
Tobi Lütke: 21 Years of Building Shopify
- ▶ 35:12 David Senra He took, Bezos talks about this in his shareholder. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:33 David Senra I read something Jeff Bezos said that changed my perspective on the importance of high quality sleep. 3 times in the scene
John Mackey: The Dropout Who Changed How America Eats
- ▶ 49:33 John Mackey They're obsessed with some billionaires because Bernie Sanders thinks that Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk somehow stole the money from the people.
- ▶ 52:05 David Senra You just mentioned Bezos, and he's got a phenomenal idea. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:41 David Senra The, when I rate, I think I was rereading Jeff Bezos' shareholders for the third time, which I think are very, I think I should read them almost every year. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:50 David Senra I read something Jeff Bezos said that changed my perspective on the importance of high quality sleep. 3 times in the scene
My Conversation With Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Founder of Colossus & Positive Sum | David Senra
- ▶ 1:19:23 David Senra I read something that Jeff Bezos said that changed my perspective on the importance of high quality sleep. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:43:25 David Senra Jeff Bezos took ideas from Sol Price.
- ▶ 1:54:18 Patrick O'Shaughnessy The ability to do something like that goes up, 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, the people that we all worship.
CAA Co-founder Michael Ovitz: Failure Is Not an Option
- ▶ 1:20:04 David Senra I read something Jeff Bezos said that changed my perspective on the importance of high quality sleep. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:31 David Senra Jeff Bezos built Amazon. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:41:47 David Senra Jeff Bezos has a great line on this.
How Todd Graves Built Raising Cane's
- ▶ 49:04 David Senra This is where the finance industry gets it wrong, and I think Bezos said this perfectly.
How Brad Jacobs Built 8 Billion-Dollar Companies
- ▶ 5:41 David Senra It reminded me of, there's this line from, um, in Jeff Bezos's, uh, he's, there's several books on him, but one of his main biographies is a book called The Everything Store. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:08 Brad Jacobs Bezos says a lot of cool stuff, but one of the things he says often is, uh, don't fight with reality because reality always wins. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:23 David Senra Bezos has a line in, I think, his shareholder letters.
- ▶ 49:38 David Senra Uh, but the, I think what ties all this together, when I think about your research process, the way you go after life, all the people we've been talking about from Steve Jobs to Jeff Bezos, this is like, mediocrity is always invisible…
- ▶ 1:06:51 David Senra I read something Jeff Bezos said that changed my perspective on the importance of high quality sleep. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:21 Brad Jacobs So I was just talking to Bezos, and Bezos was, uh, reading customer survey. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28:29 David Senra And it was Jeff Bezos going around with his copy of the book, writing it, annotating it, giving it to the executives, the early executives at Amazon.
- ▶ 1:58:46 David Senra Um, and I've seen this in a couple different places where like, um, Jeff Bezos, we talked about him a few times today, where his idea was when he started Amazon, he's like, I want to be able to build the world's most customer centric… 2 times in the scene
Michael Dell, Dell Technologies | David Senra
- ▶ 22:04 David Senra This great line that Jeff Bezos says, where he's like, our passion, we don't choose our passions, our passions choose us.
- ▶ 1:21:34 David Senra Yeah, it's, it's funny, uh, I, I forgot about the fact that Dell.com is on the bottom of every page, but what's fascinating is if you read Bezos' shareholder letters, it's not, he never refers to it as Amazon.
Daniel Ek, Spotify | David Senra
- ▶ 19:03 David Senra I love what Jeff Bezos said on this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:03 David Senra Now, I do want to talk also about this other great idea that you gave me, and then I heard Jeff Bezos echo recently about the fact that there's similarities between, like, the way your child develops and the way a company develops. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:50 Daniel Ek Certainly of their time, the basis is the, the, the Steve Jobs, the, the Elon Musk's biographies and all that kind of stuff.
- ▶ 57:53 David Senra I, there was this excellent, I just did this episode on Jeff Bezos cause he doesn't give them any interviews. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:52 David Senra I keep saying you think like Bezos. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:30:55 David Senra I read something Jeff Bezos said that changed my perspective on the importance of high quality sleep. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:37:59 David Senra I love, uh, Jeff Bezos says about this, step by step ferociously.
- ▶ 2:07:08 David Senra And I, I came across something recently, because I'm going through Jeff Bezos' shareholders again, and then I read, like, what was my interpretation of this in the past?