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▶ 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.

▶ 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…

▶ 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,

▶ 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.

▶ 39:01 Shane Parrish The full scale of AWS or Azure or Google and just rent time.

▶ 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

▶ 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

▶ 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.

▶ 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.

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