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Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
- ▶ 27:49 David Senra Jeff Bezos's founding vision was to dominate all of online retail, but he very deliberately started with books. 3 times in the scene
The Simple Genius of Jony Ive
- ▶ 20:53 David Senra And so there's this great quote by, uh, Jeff Bezos where he says, you know, if, um, if you're not moving fast, if you can't make decisions fast, you're just gonna lose great people.
Phil Knight: Founder of Nike
- ▶ 9:58 David Senra Obsessed over customers is a maxim that is repeated by Jeff Bezos, and you can definitely see that in Phil Knight.
How SpaceX Works
- ▶ 4:02 David Senra Elon putting in a hundred million dollars bought early runway, but Bezos poured much more into Blue Origin, and legacy primes
How To Run Down A Dream
- ▶ 12:12 David Senra That reminded me of Jeff Bezos. 4 times in the scene
Excellent Advice For Living: 79 Maxims from a Wise Old Man
- ▶ 12:58 David Senra This is something that Jeff Bezos would talk about over and over again. 3 times in the scene
The Creative Genius of Rick Rubin
- ▶ 18:50 David Senra I think of what Jeff Bezos said. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:59 David Senra That's a very Jeff Bezos like statement. 2 times in the scene
The Genius of Christian von Koenigsegg
- ▶ 2:41 David Senra This is another example of the truthfulness of that saying by Jeff Bezos that you, we don't choose our passions, our passions choose us.
- ▶ 36:01 David Senra That is literally, Bezos says this exact same thing.
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, 2 times in the scene
How Jensen Works
- ▶ 10:37 David Senra Jeff Bezos in one of his biographies said this.
- ▶ 38:21 David Senra There's a line in a biography of Jeff Bezos that says, Jeff went to school on everybody. 2 times in the scene
How Bill Gates Works
- ▶ 18:02 David Senra Another thing that he'll have in common with a lot of history-based entrepreneurs, I could read, you know, 50 quotes to you about this, but I think the best quote that describes this is from Jeff Bezos, who also was like this. 3 times in the scene
The Stubborn Genius of James Dyson
- ▶ 26:24 David Senra I told you over and over again, it's very strange how many of the founders that you and I admire, I'm talking about Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, James Dyson, they studied the founders of Sony.
Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 15:32 David Senra It's going to remind you if you bought, uh, invent and wander the collected writings of Jeff Bezos, which I think are excellent because the first half of that book is, uh, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:52 David Senra What did Jeff Bezos's last shareholder say?
The Obsession of Enzo Ferrari
- ▶ 15:52 David Senra Jeff Bezos once said that we don't choose our passions.
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. 5 times in the scene
The Greatest Marketer of All Time and The Cofounder of the Michelin Family Dynasty Andre Michel
- ▶ 52:11 David Senra If you think about it, what did Jeff Bezos say?
Michele Ferrero's $40 Billion Privately Owned Chocolate Empire
- ▶ 50:18 David Senra I'm not quoting Jeff Bezos there, even though Bezos says that missionaries are the ones who wind up with all the money.
Jimmy Iovine: Founder of Interscope Records & Legendary Record Producer
- ▶ 0:03 David Senra Dre, Trent Reznor, Eminem, and Jimmy knew, just like Steve Jobs knew, just like Jeff Bezos knew, that you always bet on talent. 2 times in the scene
Rare Steve Jobs’s Rare Interview
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra I read this interview with Steve Jobs right after reading Jeff Bezos' shareholder letters for the fourth or fifth time, and something jumped out at me. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:54 David Senra Jeff Bezos would bring this up in his shareholder letters. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:24 David Senra I really like doing these rare interview episodes, so if you're looking for something else and you haven't listened to them yet, highly recommend you listen to episode three 74, rare Jeff Bezos interview, and three 55, rare Bernard Alneau…
How Tamara Mellon Built Jimmy Choo
- ▶ 11:13 David Senra If you paid attention to the episode I did last week on, on Jeff Bezos' shareholder letters, I think one of the most important lessons that Jeff was trying to teach, and he says it was one of the most important lessons, actually came on… 3 times in the scene
Lessons from Jeff Bezos's Shareholder Letters
- ▶ 0:39 David Senra There's actually an idea from Jeff Bezos to shareholder letters that I think is related to this and really just good advice for anyone in business. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:56 David Senra So this is the fourth or fifth time that I've read Jeff Bezos to shareholder letters. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:48 David Senra That's really interesting about Jeff is one. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:22 David Senra We went back, Hey, to read Bezos to show her letters, to get a crash course in running a high growth internet business from someone who mastered it before any of the playbooks were written. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:36 David Senra Jeff loves the word pioneers. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:19 David Senra Jeff's answer was, you own a piece of the leading e-commerce platform. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:29 David Senra When I read this to you, Jeff sees how everything connects and feeds into his overall plan for Amazon. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:49 David Senra Jeff says this is the single most important thing, and it is probably what he repeats the most throughout this letters. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:50 David Senra Like, technically Jeff is writing this in 2002, but I really think this is like Henry Ford, you know, circa 1919. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:52 David Senra Another one of my favorite Bezos ideas is that missionaries make better products.
- ▶ 58:01 David Senra Another idea that Jeff has is going to be very similar to all of history's greatest entrepreneurs. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:29 David Senra Here's a great example of the clear thinking that Bezos has. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:54 David Senra And then he has an entire letter dedicated to fending off day two. 18 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. 10 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. 5 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
- ▶ 1:50 David Senra Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs, and they would mention the influence that Akio and Sony had, and you really use them as a model for their own company. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:50 David Senra It's exactly what Jeff Bezos said earlier.
The Life Story of Michael Dell
- ▶ 22:48 David Senra What did Jeff Bezos say?
- ▶ 1:41:37 David Senra There's this great line that Jeff Bezos says, where he's like, we're trying to build something that we can tell our grandkids about.
Ken Griffin: Founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities
- ▶ 10:08 David Senra And he says, this is going to remind you, there's, there's this idea that you and I have talked about over and over again, that, uh, I think Jeff Bezos puts it into words better than anybody else that I've come across. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:08 David Senra Again, when I, when I think of this, this is the way Ken thinks, but Jeff Bezos has a line that's almost exactly like this. 4 times in the scene
Todd Graves and His $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream
- ▶ 45:55 David Senra And just like Jeff Bezos says, missionaries make better products.
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
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra Something that Michael Ovitz had in common with people like Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos is the belief that you must find and work with extraordinary people.
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 24:57 David Senra That's a quote from Jeff Bezos, who gave this interview at the deal book summit a few weeks ago, and I made an episode on it. 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. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:21 David Senra Another person they identified as a talented fanatic, as somebody that's ferociously intelligent, was they loved Jeff Bezos. 5 times in the scene
How Jensen Thinks
- ▶ 0:06 David Senra And as I was reading, I noticed a lot of similarities between the way Jensen thought and ran his company with the way that Steve jobs and Jeff Bezos thought and ran their companies as well. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:45 David Senra It's called honing the sword, and it's the idea that, again, this is something that Jensen has in common with Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, and a bunch of other people, but I want to give you two examples there, that you should seek conflict. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:30 David Senra So in the words of Jeff Bezos, what did they have to do?
- ▶ 34:07 David Senra You know, some people like Bezos wants a six page, you know, uh, memo.
- ▶ 36:08 David Senra Jeff Bezos has this great, uh, thinking about how dangerous 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:48 David Senra This idea of going to school and everybody was described in one of the biographies I read of about a young Jeff Bezos.
The Richest Woman In America: Hetty Green
- ▶ 5:19 David Senra In fact, when I read that part, made me think when I got to have, uh, dinner with Charlie Munger, I asked him what he thought of Jeff Bezos, and Munger described Bezos, uh, one of the best ways I've heard anybody described. 3 times in the scene
Rare Jeff Bezos Interview
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra Jeff Bezos just did this interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin at the DealBook Summit, and the interview gave me so much energy that I actually printed out, after I finished listening to it, I printed out the transcript, and it's like 45 pages… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:28 David Senra So it was very interesting for me to hear Bezos use a similar metaphor in this interview. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:47 David Senra And so let's go back to what Jeff's saying in this Amazon. 15 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. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:28 David Senra I've been obsessed with studying Bezos for a long time, and I'm going to pause where we are in this interview. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 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. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:58 David Senra And there's two lines that I heard Jeff say that I absolutely love, and I repeat over and over again. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:36 David Senra Bezos says, one observation I would have is that I think it's genuinely human nature to overestimate risk and underestimate opportunity. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:38 David Senra And Bezos was, well, my view was I was a founder. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:50 David Senra And I love what he says here. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:00 David Senra I think one of the things that might surprise you the most if you listen to the full interview is just how much he talks about emotions, energy, curiosity, optimism, and I thought this was very interesting. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:52 David Senra And then this ends on Bezos willingness to be misunderstood, how he sees himself, and then why he doesn't do many interviews. 18 times in the scene
Breakfast with Brad Jacobs + How To Make A Few Billion Dollars
- ▶ 6:50 David Senra And the reason I call this going to school on everybody is I actually got that idea in a biography of Jeff Bezos. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:43 David Senra I wrote down Jeff Bezos, Henry Kaiser. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:21 David Senra Oh, Bezos did this too.
Elon Musk and The Early Days of SpaceX
- ▶ 25:11 David Senra He shows these plans to Jeff Bezos. 5 times in the scene
Rockefeller's Autobiography
- ▶ 6:30 David Senra When you read a lot about Rockefeller, you can't help but think a lot about Jeff Bezos. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:14 David Senra And what I really wanted to focus on was Jeff Bezos has this line where he says, when it comes to competition, being one of the best is not good enough.
Inside the Contrarian Mind of Sam Zell
- ▶ 33:07 David Senra I've done multiple episodes on him, but you know, ideas, Sol's ideas were influential on Sam Walton, on Jim Senegal, on Bernie Marcus, on Jeff Bezos.
Mr Beast's Leaked Memo
- ▶ 18:55 David Senra My personal viewpoint on this is what, what, um, what Jeff Bezos said.
- ▶ 26:34 David Senra That's a similar line of thinking that Bezos says. 2 times in the scene
Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
- ▶ 3:56 David Senra It's their analysis of how Jeff Bezos ran Amazon.
- ▶ 17:38 David Senra Nick is outsourcing that to the Buffets, the Bezos, the Senegals.
- ▶ 25:39 David Senra Cause remember one of Jeff Bezos's most famous quotes is that your margin is my opportunity. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:40 David Senra Remember that line for when we get to Jeff Bezos's own shareholder letters who are, who are, who are quoted heavily in Nick sleep's partnership letters. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:25 David Senra When you have order volumes at Amazon growing 16% year over year in one of the worst financial crisis that the, in, you know, half a century or whatever the timeframe was, that's Jeff Bezos saying, yeah, I thought about it. 7 times in the scene
Nick & Zak’s Excellent Adventure: How Nick Sleep & Qais Zakaria Built Their Partnership
- ▶ 16:40 David Senra And they talk about, you know, when you look back very much in like a Jeff Bezos mind frame,
- ▶ 32:25 David Senra Jeff Bezos gave a presentation in London explaining how he would offer an almost infinite selection of books. 10 times in the scene
Estée Lauder
- ▶ 5:03 David Senra And so Jeff Bezos famously said in the early days, Amazon, he thought it was really important to build your business around things that won't change. 2 times in the scene
I had dinner with John Mackey: Founder of Whole Foods
- ▶ 28:04 David Senra Expansion is going to echo what Jeff Bezos said in the early days of Amazon. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:00 David Senra So I want to focus on the time from the financial crisis in 2007, 2008, all the way up until when John gets this idea to, to try to sell the company to Jeff Bezos.
- ▶ 1:18:25 David Senra And so they reach out, they set up a meeting with Jeff Bezos and his team at Amazon meetings actually have Bezos's boathouse and they wind up having this incredible multi-hour meeting. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:23:34 David Senra It's like, do you have any resentment towards Jeff Bezos? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29:05 David Senra And even if you didn't know about this tool, you've heard me use it over and over again, because every time you listen to the podcast and when I'm referencing past ideas from past episodes from past books, like Jeff Bezos, like Walt…
The Simple Genius of Haruki Murakami
- ▶ 12:49 David Senra In fact, Jeff Bezos has a great line about this, where he says, if you absolutely cannot tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting.
Rare Bernard Arnault Interview
- ▶ 4:36 David Senra Jeff Bezos, when he was a young man, there's a story in his biography as well. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:35 David Senra When I read that part, I'm like, oh, that, that sounds exactly like Jeff Bezos. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:38 David Senra In Jeff Bezos' biography, it says he would jump on your back, and if you're good, he's going to drive you into the ground. 7 times in the scene
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