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How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 39:48 Alfred Lin Amazon, many of the, you know, the, the senior VPs, um, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:09 Alfred Lin The solution to pick back and ship in four hours was to solve a operations flow issue and not batch the, the operations, which I don't think anybody else figured out in e-commerce back then besides Amazon.
- ▶ 1:07:18 Alfred Lin Amazon for a long period of time was e-commerce. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:22 Alfred Lin AWS was an act two. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:44:31 Alfred Lin Um, other things that, you know, I'd say we try to avoid is, um, things that are roadkill along the way of a company like OpenAI or Google or Amazon or Meta.
- ▶ 2:07:35 Alfred Lin So, working backwards is this, um, idea that Amazon, um, popularized, which was, you start with the vision of the world that you want to imagine, and you, you think about if everything goes right, what is this, what is the world that we… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:09:43 Alfred Lin I think the one that I learned from Amazon is whether this is a type one or type two decision, and, you know, if it's a type one decision, I've learned from Brian Chesky to run out the clock, because you can't go back as a type two…