Jeff Bezos
14 statements across 3 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 18, 2023 by Jeff Bezos · said 92 times in 26 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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Mentions by year
brought up most by Alex Lieberman (82), Jesse Pujji (6), Sophia Amoruso (1), Sahil Lavingia (1), Dan Siroker (1), Ankur Jain (1)
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2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2024 70 mentions in 10 episodes 7 per episode
- The First Amazon Shareholder Letter: Summarized & Analyzed
- 25 Lessons in 25 Years
- Feeling Unskilled, Curing Cancer, and Going All-In on Morning Brew
- A Founder’s Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
- How to Spend a Startup’s $ Wisely
- Why I Stepped Down As CEO
- The Dangers of LTV
- Second Job of a Startup CEO
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 12 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- Startup Hotline
- First Time Founders vs. Second Time Founders
- Why Successful Business Minds Have Paranoid Brains
- The Shameless Entrepreneur, Shoptalk 2023, When To Delegate
- How This Founder Wants to Reward You for Paying Rent
- How to Not F*ck Up Your Meetings
- How an Entrepreneur Turns Self-Hate into Love
- Co-founders Austin Rief and Alex Lieberman on Building Morning Brew
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- Building a Multimillion Dollar Business…By Yourself
- How Liquid Death got a $700 Million Valuation, Making Your Pitch Deck Undeniable & The Hidden Truth of Being a Tech Entrepreneur
- Why Airlines Are Banks, How to Annual Plan for Your Business & The Biggest Myths About Founders
- Can Elon Turn the Twitter Ship Around?
- How Spirit Halloween Makes $600M in 2 Months, The Journey of a CEO & Is a Recession Coming?
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Jeff Bezos, oldest first
Dec 18, 2023
Bezos: Founders must balance statistical failure odds with 100% optimism
“Every startup company is unlikely to work. It's helpful to be in reality about that. But that doesn't mean you can't be optimistic. So you kind of have to have this duality in your head. Like you, on the one hand, you're, you know what the baseline statistics …”
Dec 18, 2023
Bezos identifies primarily as an inventor seeking atypical solutions
“I'm really an inventor, and I look at things, and I can come up with Atypical solutions, and, you know, and then I can create a hundred such atypical solutions for something. 99 of them may not survive, you know, scrutiny, but one of those 100 is like maybe th…”
Dec 18, 2023 negative
Bezos: PowerPoint is a sales tool unsuited for internal truth-seeking
“PowerPoint is really designed to persuade. It's kind of a sales tool. And internally, the last thing you want to do is sell. You want to, you're again, you're truth seeking. You're trying to find truth. And the other problem with PowerPoint is it's easy for th…”
Dec 18, 2023 positive
Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin meetings start with 30-minute silent memo reading
“Meetings at Amazon and Blue Origin are unusual. When we get new, when new people come in, like a new executive joins, they're a little taken aback sometimes, because a typical meeting, We'll start with a six-page narratively structured memo, and we do study ha…”
Dec 18, 2023 neutral
Bezos: Parasitic mass is trivial for large rockets but critical for small rockets
“If you have, let's say you have an avionics system, so you have a guidance and control system, That is gonna be about the same mass and size for a giant rocket as it is gonna be for a tiny rocket. And so that's just parasitic mass that is very consequential if…”
Dec 18, 2023 positive
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Bezos: Rotating machines and turbopumps gain efficiency at larger sizes
“All rotating machines, in fact, get more efficient as they get larger. So really tiny turbo pumps are very challenging to manufacture and any kind of gaps, you know are like between the housing, for example, and the rotating impeller that pressurizes the fuel,…”
Jan 17, 2024
Lieberman: Founders and investors must separate present facts from future narrative
“A really good force function for founders or investors or potential employees of startups is to be really good at separating what is story from what is fact. It is important to know both, but fact is what makes a business strong or weak today. Story is a possi…”
Jan 17, 2024
Lieberman: Founders should scare away wrong candidates rather than soften culture expectations
“A huge failure of entrepreneurs in general, especially in the early days of their business, is to set unrealistic expectations of what the work or the culture is like because they are afraid of scaring away employees. Bezos takes the complete opposite approach…”