Amazon, every mention
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every year 2026 anyone Shane Parrish 173Sanjay Bakshi 18Hugh Howey 18Ryan Petersen 15Morgan Housel 14Benedict Evans 14Alfred Lin 13George Stalk Jr. 11John Mackey 10Kaz Nejatian 9
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Amazon comes up
Excellence Is the Capacity to Take Pain
- ▶ 0:47 Kaz Nejatian She went to Amazon and ordered a mattress to the office for me.
- ▶ 19:00 Kaz Nejatian Same with Amazon, same with Google, because before these things existed, everyone thought the market was smaller because there was so much friction in the market.
- ▶ 26:57 Kaz Nejatian Amazon. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:18 Kaz Nejatian The first is to do what Amazon said. 4 times in the scene
Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley
- ▶ 4:00 Bill Gurley And he claimed to be a value investor, and he was the largest shareholder of Amazon for a very long period of time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:43 Bill Gurley In an ecosystem, and then they've been able to prove that they can grow, and that that growth might be a function of their size already, or their footprint, or their users, and that would include everyone from Google to Amazon to Meta,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:16 Bill Gurley Helping you think through all the corner cases and exactly why Bezos has his six page letter concept at Amazon. 2 times in the scene
You Don’t Need To Innovate To Be Successful | FarmVille Creator
- ▶ 1:04:59 Mark Pincus And he became, uh, an advisor, board member, uh, coach, godfather to my kids, and, and he was on the board of Amazon. 2 times in the scene
The Near Death Experience of RobinHood | Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder
- ▶ 1:35:34 Vlad Tenev I mean, in, in some cases, if you look at the really successful e-commerce companies like an Amazon, what they've been able to do is do such a good job that they've become the default place you go to buy stuff.
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