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Proven Strategies to Accelerate Growth, Productivity and Profits with George Stalk, Jr.
- ▶ 6:42 George Stalk Jr. I, you know, I think Amazon's a good example where Jeff Bezos says, uh, your gross margin is my target. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:11 George Stalk Jr. I think Walmart's biggest competitor problem right now is with Amazon. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:31:29 George Stalk Jr. At this point, I said that's only Amazon, Walmart, and Toyota are probably the only three companies I can imagine that are even closer to being able to do that.
Ravi Gupta: The Realities of Success
- ▶ 23:20 Ravi Gupta There's this story about Alexa with Bezos that's similar, where they came back and said, look, the latency is going to be this.
- ▶ 1:17:33 Ravi Gupta So when Amazon bought whole foods, that was a terrible moment for us at the time. 3 times in the scene
Aaron Dignan: Change The Way You Work
- ▶ 0:03 Aaron Dignan I think it was the main thing I deal with when folks ask me about doing this at scale is like, there's no such thing as Apple or Amazon, right?
- ▶ 7:44 Aaron Dignan You have a handful of people around the kitchen table or the kitchen door in the case of Amazon.
- ▶ 1:16:40 Aaron Dignan Folks ask me about doing this at scale is like, there's no such thing as Apple or Amazon, right?
Neil Pasricha: Simple Rules for Happiness
- ▶ 1:01:09 Neil Pasricha To filter the Amazon reviews and find the three-star reviews and read them, but we don't do that.
- ▶ 1:13:32 Neil Pasricha Now it comes out every hour on Amazon
Reid Hoffman: Better Decisions, Fewer Mistakes
- ▶ 10:09 Reid Hoffman Like one of the things that the funny thing is, is people will frequently say like Amazon is a six page written report and, and, um, Microsoft is a PowerPoint and so forth.
Barbara Tversky: Action Shapes Thought
- ▶ 1:48:25 Barbara Tversky We ran this on Mechanical Turk several times, and that gives us a broader range of humanity than college students, and we did get a broader range.
Gary Klein: Insights For Making Better Decisions
- ▶ 27:31 Shane Parrish I think we're actually going to publish one that people can buy on Amazon and write at some point this year.
Andrew Wilkinson: Tiny Holdings
- ▶ 57:18 Andrew Wilkinson They weren't going to want to be on only on Walmart or Amazon or something like that, and we felt they were the best platform.
Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations
- ▶ 25:36 Kunal Shah If you look at Amazon, a bulk of their revenue is to be marketplace, but if you see all the avatars of Amazon in different countries, the marketplace revenue was made to be zero. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:01 Kunal Shah I would say the total GMV that Amazon would make in India would easily be done by a small European nation after being here for like maybe seven, eight years that they have spent over here because the people who can spend just do not exist.
- ▶ 2:12:02 Kunal Shah You can say that, hey, this is going to create this, and people are very good at doing the CAC LTV math, saying that if I do this MBA, I'll unlock a consulting job, and then I can get placed into Amazon, and this is what my career… 2 times in the scene
#129 Marc Andreessen: Interview with an Icon
- ▶ 1:13:33 Marc Andreessen And another startup and, and, and, and we asked him, well, if, if Amazon, you know, for some reason, Amazon got sold or whatever, um, and you were a free agent again, like, would you start, you know, would you start another company? 3 times in the scene
#127 Best of 2021: Conversations of the Year
- ▶ 19:08 Noreena Hertz Because if we choose to hang out with our Alexa rather than Alexis,
#123 William Irvine: How To Live a Stoic Life
- ▶ 19:21 William Irvine I, I looked on Amazon and
#116 Jeff Immelt: Leadership In A Crisis
- ▶ 28:44 Jeff Immelt You know, I would say Amazon is complex, but it's not complicated. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:49 Jeff Immelt If you look at Bezos, you know, Amazon's a conglomerate, but it's a software company.
#114 Noreena Hertz: The Crisis of Loneliness
- ▶ 3:50 Noreena Hertz Um, the third reason was that I had bought an Alexa and I apologize in advance if you have one and it's gone off now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:36 Noreena Hertz Because if we choose to hang out with our Alexa rather than Alexis,
#113 Sarah Tavel: The Value of Intellectual Rigor
- ▶ 50:39 Shane Parrish Do you think there's an interesting way that are there businesses that go after, you know, Amazon would be an example, I think where they, they have a low margin and then they, they lower it over time and that's how they get bigger and… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:09 Shane Parrish I mean, ideally I'm probably it, Amazon's not going to be the champion in a century from now. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:31 Sarah Tavel It was owned by Facebook and Amazon and Google and Apple and
#112 Adam Grant: Rethinking Your Position
- ▶ 55:47 Adam Grant I think that it's, it's been one of Amazon's persistent competitive advantages. 6 times in the scene
#111 Joel Greenblatt: Investing Made Simple
- ▶ 23:08 Joel Greenblatt So, uh, most of the big indexes are driven by the Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and those businesses don't seem very irrational to me. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:05 Joel Greenblatt So, uh, uh, one of the things that I was hopeful would catch on, and that some of the major companies were talking about, not as such a responsibility, but something they can do to help themselves, meaning get more diverse talent, is…
#107 Matt Ridley: Infinite Innovation
- ▶ 18:41 Matt Ridley And the story of Amazon is, you can tell it. 7 times in the scene
#105 Seth Godin: Failing On Our Way To Mastery
- ▶ 1:14:18 Seth Godin The person who said Amazon.toast, no one remembers their name, but at the time they were a sensation because one person mighty enough to take on Amazon. 2 times in the scene
#100 Matt Mullenweg: Collaboration Is Key
- ▶ 7:54 Matt Mullenweg You can get WordPress from Bluehost, or GoDaddy, or Amazon, or a million different places, in addition to getting from WordPress.com, which we run.
- ▶ 58:51 Matt Mullenweg Amazon perhaps being the best one, where if you clearly communicate and do what you're going to say over the long term, these long-term investments can really, really pay off.
#99 Kris Cordle: Releasing the Ego
- ▶ 26:08 Chris Cordell Of course, have all the information that you have, and at Slack, we adopted a form of the Amazon memo.
#94 Chamath Palihapitiya: Understanding Yourself
- ▶ 42:48 Shane Parrish You went right into Amazon, didn't you? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:51 Shane Parrish You did Amazon in 2014.
#93 Matt Holland: Zero Day
- ▶ 31:18 Shane Parrish You don't have to worry about their arming the rebels, if you will, against Amazon.
#88 Derek Sivers: Innovation Versus Imitation
- ▶ 43:30 Derek Sivers Tried getting it on Kindle, and I looked through it again, and it was just, it was like somebody telling you that water is wet and the sky is blue.
- ▶ 45:05 Derek Sivers I think I probably rely too much on Amazon reviews, or just if there's a wise person that I like, that I'm a fan of them, and they say that, you know, this book is a great book, then I'll go read that book.
#82 Bill Ackman: Getting Back Up
- ▶ 1:08:17 Bill Ackman Amazon. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:25 Shane Parrish Do you think we'll end up going, just the Amazon comment for a second, do you think we'll end up going back to malls, or are malls effectively just dead now?
#81 Jason Calacanis: Intelligent Risk
- ▶ 11:47 Jason Calacanis And it's important to, like, pause on that, because every time CNBC talks about, like, if you invested in, you know, Amazon at this round, you would be up 1200%, right?
- ▶ 43:27 Jason Calacanis Also, the Amazon Web Services stack, and WeWork for the office stack, and legal services, all of these things have been productized.
- ▶ 44:36 Jason Calacanis So for something like Amazon or Tesla, uh, you want to know what percentage of e-commerce do they represent? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:53 Jason Calacanis And when Amazon does something like HQ two and 3 times in the scene
#78 Balaji Srinivasan: Exploring COVID-19
- ▶ 43:44 Shane Parrish Cause it's like 300 bucks on Amazon right now.
- ▶ 45:17 Balaji Srinivasan If Amazon Web Services went down,
#72 Neil Pasricha: Happy Habits
- ▶ 1:17:46 Shane Parrish Going back to Walmart for a second, uh, talk about how narratives changed from Walmart eating the world and killing Main Street to will they survive in a world with Amazon?
- ▶ 1:35:38 Neil Pasricha Maybe so is, a friend of mine has Amazon automatic ordering on every consumable item in his house.
#70 Scott Adams: Avoiding Loserthink
- ▶ 43:10 Scott Adams There's some kind of platform that'll let you put your class up there the way you might put a book on Amazon.
#67 Jim Collins: Keeping the Flywheel in Motion
- ▶ 1:02:41 Jim Collins So maybe we'll talk in a minute about the Amazon flywheel, because that's what stimulated me further thinking about Amazon. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:25 Shane Parrish Well, let's talk about Amazon for a second, because they, they invited you out, right? 6 times in the scene
#63 Hugh Howey: Winning at the Self-publishing Game
- ▶ 58:10 Hugh Howey I finished my first novel, I think in, like, 2008 or 2009, and I think the Kindle came out the same year, just a bit after I'd written a book. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:19 Hugh Howey And now there are several print on demand, uh, companies, Amazon being, I think one of the best because they're integrated with the 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:57 Hugh Howey Um, the second thing is I didn't need the validation from a publisher because I was already getting it from readers who were writing reviews on Amazon that I would read every day, like how much they love the story.
- ▶ 1:11:42 Shane Parrish So any book, basically any Kindle 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:56 Hugh Howey If they're self-published, the publishers have a different pricing scheme, so they'll continue to make the same royalty, but what Amazon is. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:06 Shane Parrish What have you learned about pricing, uh, on the Kindle or electronic pricing in terms of selling books?
- ▶ 1:19:18 Hugh Howey And under, um, just science fiction on the Amazon store. 2 times in the scene
#59 Following Intellectual Curiosity with Thomas Tull
- ▶ 21:32 Thomas Tull Or whatever, you know, the expansion of television that this is, um, you know, you're seeing some incredibly compelling things being made, uh, across, you know, not just the traditional, um, folks in TV, but certainly Amazon, Netflix, and,…
Gabriel Weinberg: Practical Steps to Safeguard Your Data and Identity Online
- ▶ 14:41 Shane Parrish Do you think that the data collected by these companies, and maybe I'll add some context to this, is like, the way that I'm thinking about this problem is, if you're a company like Google or Facebook or Amazon, you get a lot of data that…
- ▶ 48:37 Shane Parrish Does that mean that like Google, Facebook, Amazon to some extent, DuckDuckGo, you get to play gatekeeper? 3 times in the scene
#56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success
- ▶ 31:31 Daniel Gross Uh, whereas if you look at a company like Amazon, they had to struggle for a very long time to succeed.
#55 Scott Page: Becoming a Model Thinker
- ▶ 9:02 Scott Page Like, just look at this, you know, if you look at sort of fluctuations in the stock market, or if you look at the valuation of any particular company, there's so many dimensions to a company like Amazon or Disney, right, that there's no…
#53 Howard Marks: Luck, Risk and Avoiding Losers
- ▶ 58:07 Shane Parrish It sounds like the Amazon Go store I was in in Seattle last week, where you just literally, there's, there's one person standing at the front explaining how you download the app and swipe in, and then you just go in and grab stuff and walk…
#52 Dr. Laura Markham: Peaceful Parenting with
- ▶ 1:26:27 Dr. Laura Markham You can look on Amazon or on my website for those books.
#48 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 2)
- ▶ 18:28 Adam Robinson When you buy something on Amazon, when you look at something and don't buy it, Amazon is gathering data and it's able to use that data and monetize the data. 3 times in the scene
#47 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 1)
- ▶ 45:21 Adam Robinson and I decide the true value for Amazon stock is 122 dollars and 47 cents. 3 times in the scene
#42 Atul Gawande: The Path to Perpetual Progress
- ▶ 1:08 Shane Parrish Shortly after this interview was recorded, he was named the CEO of the healthcare initiative between JPMorgan Chase, Berkshire Hathaway, and Amazon.com, 2 times in the scene
#41 Tobi Lütke: The Trust Battery
- ▶ 11:37 Shane Parrish Would you say you're lowering the friction of starting an online business and giving people the tools that they can use to compete against bigger, more well-funded infrastructures like Walmart or Amazon or?
- ▶ 16:42 Tobi Lütke People to do is like have, you know, for 29 dollars a month get something that gets them pretty close to having all the things that Jeff had to build for himself when he started Amazon, right?
#40 Ben Thompson: Thriving in a Digital World
- ▶ 51:31 Ben Thompson Whereas on the, if you go to Amazon for deodorant,
- ▶ 54:00 Shane Parrish You go to Amazon, you search for deodorant, but you also have this weird thing where if you're not in a physical store, I mean, when you reach for a product in a physical store, even if you're searching for it, it's there. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:28 Shane Parrish Who do you think and why has a better controlling demand position in a relative basis between not only now, but going forward between Google, Facebook, and maybe Amazon? 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:48 Shane Parrish For Google, and Facebook, and Amazon, in the sense that, like, the longer it goes on, the harder it will be to effectively compete with them?
- ▶ 1:13:16 Ben Thompson You have Netflix and you're probably gonna have like Disney Fox, for example, and maybe one or two other services like, like that are like Amazon prime.
- ▶ 1:13:22 Ben Thompson But the goal there is Amazon.
- ▶ 1:15:47 Ben Thompson I think like, like AWS has been a huge factor here, where it used to be you needed funding to build something, to get something off the ground.
- ▶ 1:16:05 Ben Thompson Now you can walk up to Amazon, and basically you have as many servers as you could possibly want,
- ▶ 1:17:40 Shane Parrish You said it's changed a lot over the years, and that's because Amazon has equal, and Shopify to some extent, I would imagine, have given people the tools that were commonly unavailable. 2 times in the scene
#39 Tyler Cowen: Thinking About Thinking
- ▶ 19:08 Shane Parrish One of the other things you said in that book was we're removing ourselves increasingly from the physical world, not only through Amazon and being able to stay at home and have our laundry done, and we don't have to go out, but you,
- ▶ 31:57 Shane Parrish Do you read mostly in Kindle or physical books? 7 times in the scene
#32 Patrick Collison: Earning Your Stripes
- ▶ 1:11:00 Patrick Collison And so when somebody recommends a book, I'll, you know, very often pick up a copy, ideally a used hardback copy, um, because the hardback books, you know, they're more durable, and now with Amazon, used hardbacks are really cheap, uh, and…
- ▶ 1:40:24 Patrick Collison So if Seattle and, uh, and the Bay Area kind of together, right, and look at the kind of that aggregate urban zone, you know, separated as they are by a two and a half hour flight, then of course you can layer in Amazon and, and, uh, and…
#30 Margaret Heffernan: Collaboration and Competition
- ▶ 1:16 Shane Parrish What one reviewer on Amazon said was, this book is filled with specific and meaningful examples of how to transform the work environment in order to improve not only performance and outcomes, but also the collective and individual…
#28 Michael Mauboussin: A Decision Making Jedi
- ▶ 33:28 Michael Mauboussin And Facebook and amazon.com is staggering. 2 times in the scene
#27 Chris Voss: The Art of Letting Other People Have Your Way
- ▶ 36:09 Chris Voss Um, the audible version of the book has been leading the business category on Amazon basically since the book came out.
- ▶ 1:10:21 Chris Voss You go on the, you go on Amazon and look at the reviews, and it's person after person after person, but we made a difference in their lives.
#24 Susan Cain: Leading the Quiet Revolution
- ▶ 34:01 Shane Parrish Amazon can deliver everything, you know, groceries can come and meals can come, and my interactions with people, uh, even if my default is introversion, like, my interactions with people just, they, they,
#18 Naval Ravikant: The Angel Philosopher
- ▶ 6:06 Shane Parrish Is most of what you read today physical or on a computer or Kindle? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:15 Naval Ravikant Uh, I'll pull up my Kindle app as we talk. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:29 Naval Ravikant Uh, and then with the Kindle and iBooks coming along, that allowed me to start treating books like I treat blogs, which is, uh, when I go to a blog, I'll actually skim through lots of articles until I find one that looks really interesting.
- ▶ 1:13:38 Naval Ravikant So one thing I don't like to do, by the way, when I do my books on the Kindle, I skip two thirds of them.
#15 Samuel Arbesman: Future-Proof Your Knowledge
- ▶ 15:54 Shane Parrish While you were saying that, I had an interesting question pop in my mind, which is, as an author, you deliver ebooks, Kindle books. 2 times in the scene
#14 Morgan Housel: Reading, Writing, and Lifelong Learning
- ▶ 36:06 Morgan Housel Also, so I do all my reading in Kindle and I highlight passages that I think are interesting. 5 times in the scene
#13 Pedro Domingos: The Rise of The Machines
- ▶ 27:19 Shane Parrish It seems like everybody's getting into artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence, machine learning from Facebook and IBM to Amazon and Google.
- ▶ 43:18 Pedro Domingos There's actually no reason why I shouldn't be able to say to the Amazon recommender system, why did you recommend that book to me?
#11 Ryan Holiday: The Stoic Whisperer
- ▶ 2:36 Ryan Holiday I looked up Epictetus on Amazon.
#7 Venkatesh Rao: The Three Types of Decision Makers
- ▶ 30:17 Venkatesh Rao I follow trails on Twitter, on Facebook, people send me stuff, I spot, uh, things on Amazon, and it's, uh, I don't read as much as I used to, my sort of stamina for that is going down, but this process is, yeah,