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How Rockefeller Worked
- ▶ 56:56 David Senra The book is currently, I think there's only one copy for sale on Amazon and it's for sale for a thousand dollars.
How Larry Ellison Thinks
- ▶ 38:20 David Senra And so when you have a winning system like Oracle's database, or if you go back and read Jeff Bezos to shareholder letters, he realized that he had a winning system in Amazon in the early days of his shareholder letters says, Hey,
Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 2:22 David Senra You can read it on Apple Books, or you can download the file and send it to your Kindle, which is what I did.
This Orphan Built a $116 Billion Empire Without You Noticing
- ▶ 14:26 David Senra Cause when I read this section, it reminded me of something I read in one of Jeff Bezos's, uh, biographies in the early days of Amazon. 2 times in the scene
The Greatest Marketer of All Time and The Cofounder of the Michelin Family Dynasty Andre Michel
- ▶ 52:15 David Senra In the beginning of Amazon, he's like, you know, what's true today that's going to be true 10 years from now, and if you can identify those things, you can, you can invest heavily in them and reap rewards over a long period of time.
Michele Ferrero's $40 Billion Privately Owned Chocolate Empire
- ▶ 28:15 David Senra And again, you can go on Amazon and buy a vacuum cleaner for 40 dollars.
Jimmy Iovine: Founder of Interscope Records & Legendary Record Producer
- ▶ 0:29 David Senra Setting the bar high in our approach to hiring has been, and will continue to be the single most important element of Amazon's success.
Rare Steve Jobs’s Rare Interview
- ▶ 0:19 David Senra He wrote, setting the bar high in our approach to hiring has been and will continue to be the single most important element of Amazon's success.
Lessons from Jeff Bezos's Shareholder Letters
- ▶ 1:49 David Senra Was that people who started to use Amazon tended to stick around because of the value that they received from Amazon. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:48 David Senra They repeat these principles year after year, and they, they organize their entire company and orient the company and the mission around these principles. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:50 David Senra He toyed around with the idea of naming Amazon relentless. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:21 David Senra So if Amazon at this time when they're just selling books was able, if it was, if you could contain all their inventory in one store, it would be over six football fields large. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:06 David Senra And if we execute our business plan, well, it remains day one for Amazon. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:15 David Senra I have 100 shares of Amazon. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:11 David Senra And one of those that he had to learn along the way, he didn't understand because no one had invented Amazon before Amazon. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:04 David Senra Until July, Amazon had been primarily built on two pillars of customer experience, selection and convenience. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:32 David Senra This concept later inspired Amazon Prime.
- ▶ 44:55 David Senra I'm going to see, what do you, if I want to buy a hundred of those books from you, or a hundred books on Amazon, what's the difference? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:41 David Senra So earlier mentioned that Amazon is really just a business that builds business, businesses, a company that builds new companies. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:47 David Senra And that's FBA, Fulfillment by Amazon, and AWS, Amazon Web Services. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:20 David Senra And he talks about the development of the invention of the Kindle, and why he's doing that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:12 David Senra And so he gives us the example of Kindle. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:15 David Senra I was selling books and CDs and music, and now I'm doing FB and A or FBA and AWS.
- ▶ 57:41 David Senra Amazon had never designed or built a hardware device, but rather than change the vision to accommodate our then existing skills, we hired a number of talented and missionary hardware engineers and got started learning a new institutional… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:06 David Senra He's going to explain you people are like, I don't understand why would Amazon, you know, e-commerce platform, why would they have AWS? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:06 David Senra He's going to explain you people are like, I don't understand why would Amazon, you know, e-commerce platform, why would they have AWS? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:12 David Senra I work in an Amazon building named day one. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:06 David Senra How to make a perfect handstand, and Jeff thought that was actually kind of funny that there was a coach for such thing, but then he said the coach said something that was really smart, that he, that he actually applied to Amazon. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:11 David Senra AWS is an example. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:17 David Senra Development of the Fire Phone and Echo was started around the same time. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:21 David Senra While the Fire Phone was a failure, we were able to take our learnings and accelerate our efforts building Echo and Alexa. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:17 David Senra So he says, this is my last annual shareholder letter as CEO of Amazon, and I have one last thing of utmost importance I feel compelled to teach. 2 times in the scene
The Greatest Moneymaker of All Time: Jim Simons
- ▶ 38:28 David Senra You might know that name because a young Jeff Bezos actually had the idea for Amazon when he was working for D.E.
The Life Story of Akio Morita: Founder of Sony
- ▶ 2:11 David Senra So this is something that Jeff Bezos said many, many years ago on what he learned from Akio and how it influenced the building of Amazon. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:38 David Senra I don't think there's a Kindle version of the book or else I would have bought it just to search to find out how many times the word, you know, determine I'm determined or the phrase I'm determined or determination is, uh, is said repeats…
Ken Griffin: Founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities
- ▶ 8:29 David Senra If you, I think there's a few copies left on Amazon, but it is, I bought a few for friends as well, but it is sometimes difficult to find.
- ▶ 59:37 David Senra Think about how Bezos built Amazon, right?
The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood: Michael Ovitz
- ▶ 1:11:27 David Senra And I found him because both Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos talked about patterning and learning ideas from, uh, from Akio that they used in Amazon and Apple.
Dinner With Michael Ovitz
- ▶ 23:26 David Senra One of them was in the early days, Amazon, Jeff insisted that customers could email him directly at Jeff at amazon.com. 2 times in the scene
400 Pages of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
- ▶ 31:28 David Senra So there's a great comment about, uh, from Jeff Bezos about he knew the fundamentals of Amazon, even when his stock was dropping like a rock.
- ▶ 59:59 David Senra Like Jeff Bezos has done at Amazon. 2 times in the scene
How Jensen Thinks
- ▶ 0:29 David Senra The single most important element of Amazon's success.
- ▶ 1:18:52 David Senra He said he went to school on everybody, obviously before he founded Amazon and during and after.
Rare Jeff Bezos Interview
- ▶ 0:48 David Senra So he left Amazon. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:38 David Senra And so Steve was very adamant about building Apple to last beyond him, and Jeff is saying the exact same thing here in this interview about Amazon.
- ▶ 4:47 David Senra And so let's go back to what Jeff's saying in this Amazon. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:40 David Senra He says, right now I'm putting a lot of time in at Amazon because I can help and it is super interesting. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:49 David Senra It says the.com boom and bust is often compared to the gold rush, but Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos says it's more like the early days of the electric industry.
- ▶ 13:59 David Senra He's going to draw this analogy of why he thinks it's the same thing as for AI by of this trip that inspired him to create AWS. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:58 David Senra We were already doing it internally at Amazon for ourselves.
- ▶ 17:45 David Senra And so the follow-up was like, wait, bigger than Amazon? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:08 David Senra You know, it's, this Blue Origin is not a very good business yet, but I think from one, at one point, from my financial returns point of view, it's going to be the best business that I've ever been involved in, bigger than Amazon. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:29 David Senra And so Sorkin asks, or Sorkin says, you know, throughout your whole career at Amazon, you paid yourself like 80,000 dollars a year in salary. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:04 David Senra I've always been a wanderer, and I even organize Amazon meetings with this. 2 times in the scene