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▶ 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.

▶ 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.

▶ 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

▶ 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

▶ 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,…

▶ 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

▶ 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.

▶ 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…

▶ 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…

▶ 1:26:27 Dr. Laura Markham You can look on Amazon or on my website for those books.

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