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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Amazon comes up
The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking | Peter D. Kaufman [Outliers]
- ▶ 17:38 Shane Parrish Peter did a demonstration for his audience using an eight dollar crystal ball from Amazon.
How to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones | James Clear
- ▶ 2:07:25 Shane Parrish I don't know if it was you that told me this or somebody else, but you had went through Amazon reviews for all these books as well. 2 times in the scene
Sol Price: The Retail Legend Who Taught Sam Walton, Jim Sinegal, and Jeff Bezos [Outliers]
- ▶ 41:48 Shane Parrish What's Amazon Prime? 2 times in the scene
Les Schwab: Why Real Ownership Outperforms Experience, Capital, and Credentials [Outliers]
- ▶ 33:45 Shane Parrish It's the same playbook that Amazon would later use with book publishers or that Walmart used with consumer goods companies.
Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi: Lessons from the Top
- ▶ 44:44 Shane Parrish While we're on boards, uh, you're on many boards, including Amazon's.
- ▶ 51:38 Shane Parrish Amazon is known for doing things completely differently internally, including their, their memos to start meetings and stuff like that. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:45 Shane Parrish I mean, you, you had a conversation with Jobs, you worked with Jeff Bezos on the board of Amazon, where you're like, oh, that's a really good idea, really clever, I wish I would have known that before, or ones that you did implement while…
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment
- ▶ 1:27 Shane Parrish Over the next 25 years, he led Netflix from postage stamp DVD experiments to a streaming powerhouse that rebuffed an early Amazon buyout, published the viral 127 slide culture deck that codified radical freedoms and the keeper test,
Harvey Firestone: Men and Rubber [Outliers]
- ▶ 1:12:40 Shane Parrish You can go on Amazon now and look up Men in Rubber, Harvey Firestone, and you can get a copy in hardcover, in softcover, Audible, and in Kindle.
- ▶ 1:12:40 Shane Parrish You can go on Amazon now and look up Men in Rubber, Harvey Firestone, and you can get a copy in hardcover, in softcover, Audible, and in Kindle.
Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
- ▶ 39:01 Shane Parrish The full scale of AWS or Azure or Google and just rent time.
Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
- ▶ 58:00 Shane Parrish You know, going, putting my credit card down, using AWS, and leveraging their infrastructure, which they've, they've built, they've spent the hundreds of billions of dollars, and I get to use it on a time-based model.
- ▶ 1:03:13 Shane Parrish You know, uh, Amazon has a revenue model around AI. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:18 Shane Parrish In a sense, they're getting other people to pay for it through AWS, and then they're getting the advantages of it 2 times in the scene
David Heacock: Building Filterbuy
- ▶ 1:53 Shane Parrish Constructing his first plant, navigating Amazon, and even the freight decision he now calls his biggest mistake.
- ▶ 45:08 Shane Parrish Is it Amazon, Google? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:38 Shane Parrish How do you think about turning an Amazon customer where you don't get the data yourself, or do you? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:31 Shane Parrish A lot of people spend a lot of time going, yes, I want to be on the Amazon channel, but then I want to take that person that buys on Amazon and convert them into a direct relationship because with Amazon, I don't own the relationship with… 9 times in the scene
Timothy Eaton: How to Build an Empire (And Why It Crumbled) [Outliers]
- ▶ 2:50 Shane Parrish What Amazon is to the internet age, what Walmart was to suburban America, Eaton's was to a rapidly industrializing Canada, the everything store of its era.
- ▶ 18:55 Shane Parrish Calling it just a catalog would be like calling Amazon just a website.
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 42:43 Shane Parrish Dive into this story behind Zappos from sort of the initial idea in the early days, just high-level, five-minute version to the, the exit with Amazon.
Charlie Hoehn: Write Something People Want to Read
- ▶ 20:38 Shane Parrish We're constantly doing Kindle revisions. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:12 Shane Parrish We were charging 30 dollars for the great metal models on Amazon, which means we get 15.
- ▶ 48:53 Shane Parrish I think Amazon released this once. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:55 Shane Parrish It's like they read 15% of a book, maybe 16% of a book, and they get all the stats from Kindle.
- ▶ 59:30 Shane Parrish Like, if I see a five-star review on Amazon,
John Mackey: Building Whole Foods
- ▶ 1:07 Shane Parrish I wanted to hear John's story all the way from the creating of Safer Way to Amazon buying Whole Foods and everything in between.
- ▶ 1:06:47 Shane Parrish Talk to me, let's go back to the, uh, Amazon sale, but before we get there, let's rewind. 18 times in the scene
#197 Michaeleen Doucleff: The 4 Biggest Mistakes Parents Make
- ▶ 52:33 Shane Parrish And Kindle, like, he's on the Kindle all the time and it's attached to my account. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:37 Shane Parrish So, A, I get these crazy Amazon recommendations.
TKP Insights: Learning and Thinking
- ▶ 53:49 Shane Parrish Do you read mostly in Kindle or physical books? 6 times in the scene
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.
#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
#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.
#82 Bill Ackman: Getting Back Up
- ▶ 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?
#78 Balaji Srinivasan: Exploring COVID-19
- ▶ 43:44 Shane Parrish Cause it's like 300 bucks on Amazon right now.
#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?
#67 Jim Collins: Keeping the Flywheel in Motion
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 1:11:42 Shane Parrish So any book, basically any Kindle 2 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?
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
#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…
#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?
#40 Ben Thompson: Thriving in a Digital World
- ▶ 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?
- ▶ 1:17:40 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
#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…
#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
#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
#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.
#4 Jason Zweig: Elevate Your Financial IQ
- ▶ 16:06 Shane Parrish Are you reading mostly on Kindle, or physical, or do you mix them?
#3 Sanjay Bakshi: Why Mental Models
- ▶ 0:55 Shane Parrish In this interview, we talk about a host of things, including why he prefers to read on a Kindle,
- ▶ 6:30 Shane Parrish So you, you, you purchase a Kindle book, you get it to your Kindle.
- ▶ 34:58 Shane Parrish As you were talking about Costco, it sounded a lot like Amazon up until you got to company culture.
- ▶ 36:13 Shane Parrish And do you think that that's more resistant to some of the, the types of e-commerce stuff that you were talking about before in terms of not only the physical kind of bricks and mortar stores, but, uh, against the online sort of… 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:46 Shane Parrish Do you also integrate it into your courses, and how do you go about connecting the different ideas other than, um, you mentioned the Kindle search earlier, but how do you go about adding or refining, I guess, the mental models that you…
#1 Michael Mauboussin: When To Trust Your Gut
- ▶ 3:56 Shane Parrish And do you read on a Kindle? 2 times in the scene