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How to Not F*ck Up Your Meetings
- ▶ 7:53 Alex Lieberman At Amazon, Jeff Bezos created a very simple model for making meetings more efficient.
- ▶ 10:29 Alex Lieberman So going back to Amazon, Amazon requires for meetings a memo to be written by the meeting leader. 3 times in the scene
Conferences are (mostly) a waste
- ▶ 9:48 Alex Lieberman That included, one, a leading LSAT tutor and creator with a huge audience in Asia, two, a no-code app agency owner from the UK, three, an agent who focuses on representing creators living in Austin, four, an Amazon consultancy that helps…
Why boring work is inevitable
- ▶ 3:43 Alex Lieberman Bezos looks like he can bench press an Amazon truck, and like a professional athlete, people ooh and ah at the life of an entrepreneur.
How to Identify Top 1% Talent (Keith Rabois, Investor in Doordash, YouTube, Airbnb & Lyft)
- ▶ 18:29 Keith Raboi Think Google, think Apple, think Amazon, think Microsoft, or even these days open AI.
Always Be Shipping
- ▶ 6:35 Alex Lieberman So I just have this belief that like at some of the fastest growing companies right now, whether it's Stripe or Shopify or Amazon, there are so many internal tools being used at these companies, at these high growth companies that are… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:54 Alex Lieberman Like you even think about Amazon, AWS was effectively an internal infrastructure where amazon.com was the first customer, and then it was turned into a productized offering for other people.
7-Figure Business in 48 Hours
- ▶ 11:26 Alex Lieberman Basically, any product you'd find on Amazon's bestseller list would work here.
- ▶ 21:08 Alex Lieberman You can do this process with Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, Reddit, eBay, Amazon, etc.
Why Software is Eating the World
- ▶ 7:14 Alex Lieberman Running that same application today in Amazon's cloud costs about 1500 dollars a month.
- ▶ 8:39 Alex Lieberman Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:28 Alex Lieberman On top of that, while Borders was thrashing in the throes of impending bankruptcy, Amazon rearranged its website to promote its Kindle digital books over physical books for the first time.
- ▶ 19:20 Alex Lieberman It's not an accident that many of the biggest recent technology companies, including Google, Amazon, eBay, and more, are American companies.
7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
- ▶ 7:16 Alex Lieberman AWS or Amazon Web Services, high upfront cost of the servers that they had to pay for to operate the cloud, and then they are able to spread that high fixed cost across more and more customers that rent cloud storage from AWS. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:59 Alex Lieberman Amazon.
- ▶ 20:19 Alex Lieberman A good example for talent is Amazon, who, according to the information, has a 3 times in the scene
How to Get Your First 1,000 Users
- ▶ 11:50 Alex Lieberman It's the marketplace for, I think of it as like the Amazon for service professionals.
Second Job of a Startup CEO
- ▶ 16:14 Alex Lieberman You don't have to go as far as Jeff Bezos and his team at Amazon do, requiring six-page memos for every strategic meeting, but writing your mission to metrics framework in long form will help you be more thorough and catch flaws in your…
Visionary vs. Fraud
- ▶ 10:48 Alex Lieberman Can we build a better phone for Prime members?
1,000 True Fans
- ▶ 12:05 Alex Lieberman You could be a new author who decides to sell their book on Amazon, and you are hypothetically one click away from James Clear's Atomic Habits on Amazon.com. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:30 Alex Lieberman Some large percentage of their sales are through their website, where they have a direct relationship with their customer, but they still use platforms, whether it be Alibaba or Baidu or Amazon, because these platforms still have access to…
25 Lessons in 25 Years
- ▶ 6:26 Alex Lieberman If you remember, this is exactly how I said Jeff Bezos built his culture when running Amazon, and the beauty of running a lean startup is it gives you something that big competitors don't have.
- ▶ 12:27 Alex Lieberman And Bill gives the best example because it's one that I recently talked about when reading through the 1997 Amazon shareholder letter.
A Founder’s Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
- ▶ 5:10 Sahil Lavingia And, you know, the way you do that is by basically having some idea for this like really large market, having some software product that you build, you hire, you know, you raise some venture capital, you hire some engineers, you use AWS,…
- ▶ 25:05 Sahil Lavingia Like you've seen Bezos leave Amazon.
How to Spend a Startup’s $ Wisely
- ▶ 15:50 Alex Lieberman In theory, it actually should be easier today with AWS instead of servers that are on premise with AI.
- ▶ 17:43 Alex Lieberman You cannot just expect this will happen, and if you listen to my episode on Jeff Bezos' first Amazon shareholder letter, you'll see how much he talks about the importance of frugality because
The First Amazon Shareholder Letter: Summarized & Analyzed
- ▶ 0:21 Alex Lieberman I'm talking about the very first Amazon shareholder letter written by Jeff Bezos the year that the company went public. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:54 Alex Lieberman At the end of 1997, Amazon filed its first annual report as a public company after IPO-ing in May of that year, just three years after founding the business. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:04 Alex Lieberman He says, Amazon.com passed many milestones in 1997. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:32 Alex Lieberman Next, he goes into the long-term orientation of Amazon and its goals, showing just how clear of a vision he had for the business. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:29 Alex Lieberman He says, Given Amazon was focused on being the biggest player in online commerce, to me, it makes total sense why revenue growth, customer retention, and brand were prioritized.
- ▶ 8:16 Alex Lieberman It's an acknowledgement that many companies manage their business to quarterly goals and expectations, but Amazon is not such a business, so if you have that expectation, Amazon is probably not the investment for you, and that's what Bezos… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:12 Alex Lieberman And this is exactly what Amazon was known for in. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:39 Alex Lieberman Next part of the letter is focused on Amazon's customers. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:39 Alex Lieberman By many measures, Amazon.com came a long way in 1997. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:51 Alex Lieberman I hope you've enjoyed this teardown and analysis of the first ever Amazon shareholder letter.
A $20m Business with No Meetings, Deadlines or Full-Time Employees
- ▶ 11:03 Sahil Lavingia And what you get out of hourly, just like Uber, just like Airbnb, just like instances on AWS, you get efficiency. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:37 Sahil Lavingia Obviously it's much harder to spin up like a engineering team than like a set of EC two servers.
- ▶ 29:42 Alex Lieberman You know, to, to use the, the tired, uh, analogy, the AWS for kind of like what I would call like modular or scaled knowledge work.
Lessons from Jeff Bezos
- ▶ 0:26 Alex Lieberman On this episode, I'll be sharing the best moments from Lex Friedman's recent conversation with Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, as well as my own analysis on these moments.
- ▶ 20:04 Lex Fridman Like, this is one of the legendary aspects of Amazon, uh, of the way you approach meetings. 2 times in the scene
How to Use EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) to Run & Scale Your Business
- ▶ 23:58 Michael Girdley And I think it's 12 or 15 bucks right now on Amazon.
First Time Founders vs. Second Time Founders
- ▶ 18:11 Dan Siroker Yeah, and I took this one from Amazon.
A Rewind for Your Money Matters: Season 4 Recap
- ▶ 27:02 John Gagliardi We're talking about Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Tesla, JPMorgan Chase, ExxonMobil,
Why The Future of the Creator Economy is Bright
Where I Go For Startup Ideas
- ▶ 7:25 Alex Lieberman Something like Amazon is an ocean, and I referred to an ocean before, because you have billions of people that really want their product, which makes it very wide on the graph, 2 times in the scene
How Hoka Ran Away With The Competition
- ▶ 10:34 Alex Lieberman They look like Martian shoes, and you can buy them from Amazon for 525 dollars.
3 Strategies for Choosing the Right Co-Founder
- ▶ 15:22 Alex Lieberman Uh, which you can buy on Amazon or there's a free version as a Google doc.
Building Technology With Infinite Scale
- ▶ 37:20 Alex Lieberman So what happens to the people that are currently in Amazon's warehouses that are picking the boxes 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:17 Brett Adcock And I think there's a separate side of things, which is, um, you know, you probably see this at maybe Amazon, Apple, you know, Tesla, SpaceX is we're here for the mission.
Are Your Goals Motivated by Joy or by Fear?
- ▶ 8:20 Matt Mochari Amazon has it, Google has it, et cetera.
Gaining 150k Followers From One Video + Jesse Reveals His New Business
- ▶ 23:08 Jesse Pujji They were kind of like, you know, this is the same size as Amazon in terms of your actual direct reports and the actual, like, people you can interact with on a regular basis.
The Shameless Entrepreneur, Shoptalk 2023, When To Delegate
- ▶ 37:27 Jesse Pujji Costco, Amazon, Best Buy.
How This Founder Wants to Reward You for Paying Rent
- ▶ 34:49 Alex Lieberman Dinners for my Amazon charges, whatever.
The Business Behind Conferences + Embracing Confrontation
- ▶ 22:09 Jesse Pujji And what's funny about it is even though they're organized that way, and, like, you know, Amazon famously has all these tiny little teams, the sub, the sort of sub values underneath it, according to this article, are the same as, like, Red… 2 times in the scene
How to Not F*ck Up Your Meetings
- ▶ 6:22 Alex Lieberman At Amazon, Jeff Bezos created a very simple model for making meetings more efficient.
- ▶ 8:59 Alex Lieberman So going back to Amazon, Amazon requires for meetings a memo to be written by the meeting leader. 4 times in the scene
How a 26-Year Old With Autism Built a $10 Million Samurai Sword Business
- ▶ 19:19 Isaac Medeiros From Amazon or something.
Exclusive: Selling My Company & Making Life-Changing Money
- ▶ 5:57 Jesse Pujji They run Amazon television, Google.
Jonathan Swanson on Building a Unicorn and Delegating 90% of Your Life
- ▶ 1:14 Alex Lieberman Today, we have our first guest, and it's coming full circle because the first person that I ever interviewed when starting Morning Brew was the CEO of Thumbtack, the Amazon for services, Marco Zappacosta, and today, our first guest is his…
- ▶ 4:45 Jonathan Swanson Uh, when, you know, you go back to what Marco and Sander and I were talking about when we started Thumbtack, our ambition was to be the Amazon of local services. 3 times in the scene
Our 2023 Predictions, from AI to the Creator Economy
- ▶ 10:14 Jesse Pujji Well, there was Amazon news that they're going to do 18,000 instead of 11,000 or something that leaked. 2 times in the scene
Co-founders Austin Rief and Alex Lieberman on Building Morning Brew
- ▶ 20:16 Austin Rief Like, oh, I mean, it's like Amazon. 2 times in the scene
Building a Multimillion Dollar Business…By Yourself
- ▶ 4:17 Jesse Pujji I see what they're doing and I'm like, that looks really cool.
Why Airlines Are Banks, How to Annual Plan for Your Business & The Biggest Myths About Founders
- ▶ 43:00 Alex Lieberman So, you know, for example, I know, um, like Mark Lorre, who built Jet.com, and he built Diapers.com that he sold to Amazon.
The Genius of Spotify Wrapped and How to Copy It, and How to Sell Your Business for 9 Figures
- ▶ 23:48 Jesse Pujji You eventually would have to do search and maybe Amazon, these other things were like, this makes, we either have to get into that by buying companies or building that capability, or we need to go sell and become part of something bigger,…
How the Founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK Built His $700M Empire
- ▶ 1:54 Alex Lieberman He published a book in 2018, which was a number one Amazon bestseller called WTF willing to fail how failure can be your key to success.
What Generative AI Means for Startups and Are Executive Coaches Worth It?
- ▶ 18:18 Jesse Pujji Eventually, AWS will offer it, Microsoft will offer it, OpenAI offers it, whatever.
How Liquid Death got a $700 Million Valuation, Making Your Pitch Deck Undeniable & The Hidden Truth of Being a Tech Entrepreneur
- ▶ 25:04 Jesse Pujji The three flywheels of Amazon are low price, fast delivery, and vast selection.
- ▶ 41:59 Jesse Pujji Why are we using AWS or Azure?
Great Startup Ideas, Bad Businesses
- ▶ 10:46 Alex Lieberman Amazon is a two-sided marketplace between consumer and retailer.
Bonus: "How Twitch Co-founder Justin Kan Got Sober" from Imposters
- ▶ 2:21 Alex Lieberman Justin's best known as the co-founder of Twitch, the hugely popular live streaming platform that was bought by Amazon in 2014.
- ▶ 6:24 Alex Lieberman Justin then sold Twitch to Amazon in 2014 for close to a billion dollars.
Costco's Secret Weapon
- ▶ 2:23 Alex Lieberman It has more than 800 locations worldwide, and it is the sixth largest retailer in the world behind Walmart, Amazon, Schwartz Group, Aldi, and Alibaba.
- ▶ 10:51 Alex Lieberman Amazon has dozens of private label brands, and you probably wouldn't even realize that they are created by Amazon. 2 times in the scene
Thoughts on Employees Leaving
- ▶ 6:34 Alex Lieberman After a few months on the job, this person, I'll never forget it, pulled me out of our WeWork office to just a side table in the main area of WeWork, and they told me that they would be leaving to join Google, and they were going to be…
Accelerate Your Career #2: Learning How to Learn (Classic)
- ▶ 14:31 Alex Lieberman When you hear people saying Uber for X, Amazon for Y, Peloton for Z, that's an example of remixing.
Ethereum 101 & How It Could Top Bitcoin in Cryptocurrency
- ▶ 3:39 Alex Lieberman There's a ton of big tech talent, engineers that used to work at Facebook, Google, Amazon, these giants in the tech industry that are now flowing to working somewhere in crypto, especially in Ethereum, and there have been use cases of…
- ▶ 5:00 Alex Lieberman If Bitcoin was imagined as a digital version of gold, Ethereum was imagined as an evolved version of Amazon Web Services, or AWS, where an entire economy of new applications and products could be built on top of Ethereum. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:59 Alex Lieberman It could look like Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, any of the big tech intermediaries.
- ▶ 11:15 Alex Lieberman If you want to buy a charger on Amazon, you pay with the US dollar.
The Golden Age of Entrepreneurship
- ▶ 6:03 Alex Lieberman A few months back, I posted on Twitter asking, anyone want to form a learning group to read, reflect, and discuss all of Amazon shareholder letters? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:50 Alex Lieberman The addition of things on Amazon, like one-click checkout, have lowered the friction to test and try to as close to zero as ever before. 3 times in the scene
Learning How to Learn
- ▶ 17:15 Alex Lieberman I'm building the Amazon for Y.
The Billion Dollar Builder
- ▶ 9:52 Alex Lieberman Like a Costco through his business, Woku, and he's had the relevant experience to understand the ins and outs of e-commerce, like an Amazon, through his consulting work he did with Leckie.