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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
- ▶ 37:58 David Senra When I got to this section, it reminded me of what Jeff Bezos thought exactly the same way. 2 times in the scene
The Inside Story of America's Richest Man: Sam Walton
- ▶ 14:57 David Senra The way I would think about this is that Sam's satisfying customers is Jeff Bezos is obsessed over customers. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:27 David Senra And so Jeff Bezos has a saying, he says, we know from our past experiences that big things start small.
- ▶ 49:04 David Senra This is also something he shares in common with Jeff Bezos. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:22 David Senra Sam Walton learned from him, Jeff Bezos, Jim Senegal, the founder of Costco. 3 times in the scene
How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple
- ▶ 12:18 David Senra There's a great line from Jeff Bezos. 5 times in the scene
The Biography of Walt Disney
- ▶ 1:40:58 David Senra There's a ton of Sam Walton's ideas that show up in Jeff Bezos' companies and products.
The Biography of George Lucas
- ▶ 0:47 David Senra It's just like Sam Walton's ideas showing up in Jeff Bezos' companies and products. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:45:10 David Senra One thing that is consistent, whether it's jobs, Buffett, Bezos, uh, Peter Thiel, this just pops up over and over again. 3 times in the scene
The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness by David Ogilvy
- ▶ 18:13 David Senra This is from Jeff Bezos. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:31 David Senra That is advice from Mr.
The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant
- ▶ 7:27 David Senra Jeff Bezos, Henry Ford, and Steve Jobs.
- ▶ 23:56 David Senra Like if you go back and read any of the shareholders, like the example I used a couple days ago was Jeff Bezos. 2 times in the scene
Michael Jordan And Kobe Bryant
- ▶ 4:01 David Senra It's Jeff Bezos. 5 times in the scene
Napoleon's Maxims and Strategy
- ▶ 9:48 David Senra And at the time Zappos is just like selling shoes online, but they're making a lot of progress against them. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:32 David Senra Obviously, Napoleon's gonna repeat rapid movement, rapidity, speed over and over again, but for some reason when I read that, I, I hear little Jeff Bezos in my head, because I've read, you know, Jeff, Jeff's shareholder letters three times. 6 times in the scene
How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: The Life Story of Samuel Insull
- ▶ 42:16 David Senra Jeff Bezos is still making investments, right?
How To Make A Few Billion Dollars by Brad Jacobs
- ▶ 17:57 David Senra I wrote down Jeff Bezos, Henry Kaiser. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:35 David Senra Oh, Bezos did this, too.
Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Mateschitz
- ▶ 1:01:23 David Senra Jeff Bezos. 2 times in the scene
The Autobiography of Christian Dior
- ▶ 43:31 David Senra One thing that is consistent, whether it's Jobs, Buffett, Bezos, uh, Peter Thiel, this just pops up over and over again. 3 times in the scene
Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)
- ▶ 1:20:03 David Senra One thing that is consistent, whether it's Jobs, Buffett, Bezos, uh, Peter Thiel, this just pops up over and over again. 3 times in the scene
Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack)
- ▶ 1:38:58 David Senra One thing that is consistent, whether it's Jobs, Buffett, Bezos, uh, Peter Thiel, this just pops up over and over again. 3 times in the scene
The Autobiography of Ted Turner
- ▶ 1:08:26 David Senra One thing that is consistent, whether it's Jobs, Buffett, Bezos, uh, Peter Thiel, this just pops up over and over again. 3 times in the scene
Billionaire Art Dealer Larry Gagosian
- ▶ 1:04:51 David Senra And so if you type hiring in that box, you'll see what, what did Jeff Bezos say about it?
John D Rockefeller: 38 Letters Rockefeller Wrote to His Son
- ▶ 1:39:39 David Senra And so if you type hiring in that box, you'll see what, what did Jeff Bezos say about it?
Herb Kelleher: Founder of Southwest Airlines
- ▶ 7:58 David Senra Last week on the Working with Jeff Bezos episode, I mentioned this text I got from a friend where he noticed
- ▶ 17:55 David Senra And so anytime I read that word outthink, I always think of Jeff Bezos talking about Zappos in the early days before Amazon bought Zappos. 2 times in the scene
Working with Jeff Bezos
- ▶ 0:04 David Senra He told me that he had an interesting meeting with Jeff, who made it very clear that setting and insisting on high standards was an essential part of Steve's job. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:00 David Senra This is the second time I've read this book, and I think this book is actually perfect to giving you an idea of what it was like working with Jeff Bezos. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:03 David Senra There's so many people that work with Jeff that actually describe him the same way. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:12 David Senra Another unique idea in the way to build and run Amazon that Jeff came up with, he actually found this idea in a paper. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:47 David Senra The Kindle is actually the first product, and we'll get into more detail about how the Kindle came to be, including this very important meeting that Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs had in 2003. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:10 David Senra Before I get there, I want to go back to this idea that the whole world is a classroom and you can't help but notice how many times Jeff is just using ideas from other companies or from things that he's reading and he's using them inside… 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:38 David Senra Before we go to that, they quote heavily from Jeff's shareholder letters to really explain, remember, the belief system of the founder is the language of the company. 30 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:41 David Senra Jeff is so good. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:55 David Senra The fact that Jeff met with Costco founder Jim Senegal and the meeting changed the trajectory of Amazon. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:31 David Senra Jeff and I attended an O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, and we went to a panel featuring Stuart Butterfield, who co-founded Flickr and later Slack. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:40 David Senra Jeff Bezos episode that I have made. 9 times in the scene
The Making of Winston Churchill Part 2
- ▶ 17:34 David Senra Jeff Bezos's grandfather would talk about this. 2 times in the scene
Ed Catmull (Founder of Pixar)
- ▶ 45:32 David Senra And then he points out something that Jeff Bezos noticed as well.
The Biography of Christopher Nolan
- ▶ 39:20 David Senra The second thing is that I had no idea that Christopher Nolan's approach to work was very similar to Jeff Bezos when he was at Amazon before he starts working on a movie, right? 4 times in the scene
Mark Twain's Biography
- ▶ 49:01 David Senra Jeff Bezos pops to mind. 4 times in the scene
The Biography of James Cameron
- ▶ 20:48 David Senra And we see this with a lot of like the interesting founders is they were, when they were kids, like think Jeff Bezos or think Elon Musk, uh, they were obsessed with reading science fiction.
Arnold Schwarzenegger (Before He Was Successful)
- ▶ 27:53 David Senra And they repeat them so frequently that, you know, they become Jeffisms in the case of like Jeff Bezos inside Amazon. 2 times in the scene
Sol Price: The Founder Who Taught Jim Sinegal, Sam Walton, Jeff Bezos, and Bernie Marcus
- ▶ 3:44 David Senra Jeff Bezos of Amazon.
- ▶ 31:18 David Senra And I think what Sol Price realized, what Jim Sinegal realizes, what Jeff Bezos realizes, what Mrs.
The Biography of Tiger Woods
- ▶ 18:01 David Senra It's no different than Jeff Bezos running around with highlighted copies of Sam Walton's autobiography, giving it out to a ton of people, taking, I think it was the bias of action and, and, and Sam's, uh, pinched
James Dyson (Against the Odds)
- ▶ 27:37 David Senra I have modified it into a philosophy which demands difference from what it exists or what Jeff Bezos told you and I.
Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 12:37 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 all of Jeff Bezos' shareholder letters, which I've read, I don't know,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:15 David Senra What did Jeff Bezos's last shareholder say?
Yvon Chouinard (Founder of Patagonia)
- ▶ 35:48 David Senra I'm going to interrupt this paragraph because when I got there, it made me think of something I heard Jeff Bezos say one time that I think is absolutely fantastic.
Bernard Arnault (The Richest Man in the World)
- ▶ 30:34 David Senra The note I left myself on that page is, like Jeff Bezos, Arnold is relentless. 3 times in the scene
I had dinner with Charlie Munger
- ▶ 22:05 David Senra And the way to think about this is something that, uh, Jeff Bezos said one time, and he says, do you really want to plan for a future in which you might have to fight with somebody who is just as good as you are?
- ▶ 34:05 David Senra Makes me think of something I learned from Ed Thorpe and Jeff Bezos. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:56 David Senra Sam Walton, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Rockefeller, Edwin Land, Coco Chanel, Andrew Carnegie, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Larry Ellison, Ray Kroc, John Malone, Henry Ford, George Lucas, the Wright brothers.
- ▶ 50:39 David Senra Think about what Jeff Bezos told us differentiation is survival.
The Biography of Napoleon
- ▶ 21:42 David Senra I've actually seen this, uh, two other times came to mind when I read this book, Jeff Bezos and General Patton. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:50 David Senra And so, I just want to read this part, and then it brought to mind something I heard Jeff Bezos say that I think is really, um, interesting. 2 times in the scene
David Packard (Founder of HP)
- ▶ 2:37 David Senra I want to revisit that section from the introduction though, because really if you read between the lines of what he's saying over those several pages is it's going to be very similar to the lesson that you and I just went over in episode… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:43 David Senra And so we see another example of one of my favorite quotes, this idea that Jeff Bezos says that are, we don't choose our passions, they choose us.
- ▶ 28:07 David Senra When I got to that section, I thought of, uh, Jeff Bezos in the early days of Amazon. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:19 David Senra And then the last thing that popped to mind is in, uh, Jeff Bezos' shareholder letters. 3 times in the scene
The Biography of Bill Gates
- ▶ 5:00 David Senra It also makes me think of one of my favorite quotes ever from Jeff Bezos.
- ▶ 39:30 David Senra Well, on episode one 55, I read this fantastic book called invent and wander the collected writings of Jeff Bezos. 4 times in the scene
The Biography of Brunello Cucinelli
- ▶ 36:10 David Senra We talked about with Jeff Bezos, with the Kia Marita, the founder of Sony, that it's helpful to have a goal larger than just your individual company.
The Biography of Ralph Lauren
- ▶ 15:21 David Senra And this differentiation, I love, I just read, um, I think it's episode two 82 maybe, when I read, uh, Jeff Bezos' shareholder letters for the third time, he said something in those
- ▶ 26:45 David Senra People like Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs have talked openly about take, about learning from ideas and using ideas that Akio used to build Sony and to build Amazon and Apple.
- ▶ 45:31 David Senra This happened, this happened to Jeff Bezos when he had that drop. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:41 David Senra And so Ralph talks about in the documentary, like how dark of the period this was, but the greatest thing, one of, I love what Jeff Bezos says, he's like, plan B should be to make plan A work.
The Biography of The Founder of Rolls-Royce
- ▶ 22:17 David Senra This is why Jeff Bezos says missionaries make better products, right?
Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger In Their Own Words
- ▶ 5:46 David Senra And I'll get into why Jeff Bezos picked up on this is such an important thing in 1:02. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:10 David Senra Sam Walton, Trader Joe, Jim Senegal, Bernie Marcus from Home Depot, Jeff Bezos.
- ▶ 38:43 David Senra It's also why Jeff Bezos says that, uh, missionaries make the best products. 2 times in the scene
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