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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Amazon comes up
#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.