Jeff Bezos

“What Shopify allows 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?”

“We're going to keep our business as small as possible. He wants to build the business, biggest business in the world.”

“He never invested in Basecamp, the company, essentially. Like, his money was never put in the business to run the business. We've always a hundred, for 20 years as we've been, as long as we've been in business, we've always been a hundred percent funded by cus…”

“There is no such thing as work-life balance. When you hear that word balance, what you probably picture is a scale, like one of these things where, like, one side gets, goes down, the other side goes up. More in one pot is less than another. But he said, no, i…”

“Toby, Toby, Toby Lutke. I think Toby's really, really exceptional. He . He's world class on the level of those two. My gosh.”

“We talked to Jeff Bezos about this at one point, and he asked us why we were starting a venture capital firm and not another company. And another startup and we asked him, well, if Amazon, you know, for some reason, Amazon got sold or whatever and you were a f…”

“Jeff Bezos has created eight hundred billion dollars of wealth for other people.”

“When we were going up there to talk about maybe Amazon buying Whole Foods you know, we were meeting at Jeff's Boathouse, which was next to his mansion on Lake Washington, and, but when we, they wouldn't tell us who the meeting place was until we landed, and th…”

“I believe in cultures where, you know, founders have license to go in and all the way to a small decision and fix it. The infamous question mark emails from Jeff Bezos, you know, that type of thing. That's the right way to run a company.”

“You gotta be very careful with decisions that are irreversible. They're gonna have lasting consequences. And be much less choosy and picky and analytical about decisions that are reversible and whatnot.”

“I always subscribe to the fact that the senior folks, including myself, I always speak less. I always ask, give my takeaways or my questions at the end of the meeting. To make sure that there's no biased thinking. I think Jeff Bezos had a similar perspective w…”

“One lesson I learned that really, I hate management, so I don't do one-on-ones. My friend Bing told me that Jeff Bezos wouldn't ever do one-on-ones, because he created politics, and it was a huge waste of his time. I was like, I love that. No one-on-ones”

“In fact, I believe every C staff member at Amazon was at one point Jeff Bezos' tech assistant, And Andy Jassy was, and the CEO.”