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Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley
- ▶ 47:16 Bill Gurley Helping you think through all the corner cases and exactly why Bezos has his six page letter concept at Amazon. 4 times in the scene
You Don’t Need To Innovate To Be Successful | FarmVille Creator
- ▶ 1:03:51 Mark Pincus 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. 6 times in the scene
The Magic of Thinking Big | XPO CEO Mario Harik
- ▶ 36:14 Mario Harik I think Jeff Bezos had a similar perspective where always you speak at the end as a leader, because what you don't want by giving your perspective, somebody, somebody who's junior on the team who might have fantastic insights is going to…
Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want
- ▶ 9:08 Morgan Housel And the people who are monstrously successful, that Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and Marks,
- ▶ 1:19:42 Morgan Housel Jeff Bezos talks about that a lot.
How to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones | James Clear
- ▶ 1:56:30 Shane Parrish Jeff Bezos had this saying that stuck with me ever since I heard it, which was basically, and I'm paraphrasing, that the people who are right a lot change their mind a lot, and they're rarely right at the beginning, but they're right at…
Be Your Best in 2026: The Most Important Lessons from The Knowledge Project (2025)
- ▶ 10:56 Bret Taylor The infamous question mark emails from Jeff Bezos, you know, that type of thing.
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland
- ▶ 1:01:27 Rory Sutherland It's saying that anything like R&D or marketing, which is fat-tailed, in other words, a small percentage of what you do, it's Jeff Bezos's point about in business, in baseball, you can only score four.
Building Great Businesses | Tracy Britt Cool
- ▶ 1:42:01 Tracy Britt Cool I mean, if you look at Bezos' build at Amazon, I mean, that's incredibly remarkable in terms of the world and the impact that it's had.
Ed Stack: Lessons from Dick’s Sporting Goods [Outliers]
- ▶ 59:07 Shane Parrish Jeff Bezos has this quote that I think about often.
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
- ▶ 51:53 Benedict Evans There's a book by, um, Zola about the creation of department stores called Bonheur de Dame, which means the happiness of women, and it's basically about a nineteenth-century Jeff Bezos calling an apartment store, a department store into…
Sol Price: The Retail Legend Who Taught Sam Walton, Jim Sinegal, and Jeff Bezos [Outliers]
- ▶ 0:39 Shane Parrish Jeff Bezos did the same thing.
- ▶ 41:52 Shane Parrish Where Jeff Bezos get that idea, do you think?
Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi: Lessons from the Top
- ▶ 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…
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment
- ▶ 37:24 Reed Hastings So, you want to be, uh, I think Bezos is the one who said this best, to sort of be very firm about certain principles, and then very flexible on the tactics, and then this is a specific application of that, which is, um,
- ▶ 53:38 Reed Hastings In the old days, for me, it was Jeff Bezos, um, you know, but now he's retired.
Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
- ▶ 20:53 Bret Taylor The infamous question mark emails from Jeff Bezos, you know, that type of thing.
- ▶ 1:03:27 Shane Parrish Bezos was doing an interview last week. 2 times in the scene
Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI
- ▶ 38:07 Josh Wolfe But I think that there was not the same kind of honesty that I would ascribe to Jeff Bezos in how he built Amazon and, you know, raised a few hundred million dollars of equity.
David Heacock: Building Filterbuy
- ▶ 5:16 David Heacock And so, you know, Jeff Bezos has this concept of one-way doors versus two-way doors.
Timothy Eaton: How to Build an Empire (And Why It Crumbled) [Outliers]
- ▶ 3:00 Shane Parrish In 1869, almost a century before Jeff Bezos was born, and 50 years before Sam Walton and Ikea drew their first brass, there was another name that became synonymous with retailing, Timothy Eaton.
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 39:53 Alfred Lin That were around Bezos had been around the company for a long, long time.
- ▶ 1:02:46 Alfred Lin And Beza said this line about how customers are just always, always dissatisfied.
- ▶ 1:09:03 Shane Parrish And that was Bezos' famous quote, right?
John Mackey: Building Whole Foods
- ▶ 1:01:10 John Mackey Um, I remember when I met Jeff Bezos for the first time, uh, we, we were, ah, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:01 Shane Parrish Walk me through from that moment to the meeting with Bezos. 6 times in the scene
Morgan Housel: Get Rich, Stay Rich
- ▶ 42:05 Morgan Housel And there's other people, you know, obviously Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are independent, but I would, I would venture that more than half of Elon Musk's day is doing things that he doesn't want to do.
- ▶ 59:45 Morgan Housel The pressure that they have to use that money well, to not end up like the Vanderbilts to, you know, how much pressure does, uh, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates have to donate their money effectively.
- ▶ 1:00:09 Shane Parrish Streams were like Bezos and Musk and that, but the, the social debt, like almost like you go to a wedding and you have to give more because you have more.
Bryan Johnson: Five Habits for Longer Living
- ▶ 34:58 Shane Parrish like you have sort of Jeff Bezos and Patrick and John Collison and people pouring money into
Tom Gayner: Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 1:34:06 Tom Gaynor With a small enough number of people sitting around one table, it's Jeff Bezos's two pizza rule, you know, which wants his teams to be of a size that two pizzas ought to satisfy everybody.
Best of 2023: Conversations of the Year
- ▶ 51:44 Ravi Gupta There's a story about Alexa with Bezos that's similar, where they came back and said, look, the latency is going to be this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:25:39 Dr. Gio Valiante And that's why proponents of capitalism and free markets, you can just see it in modern day, like the world moves because, because individuals innovate and evolve, whether it's Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos has created eight hundred…
Dr. Gio Valiante (Part 2): Failure and Success
- ▶ 42:36 Dr. Gio Valiante And that's why proponents of capitalism and free markets, you can just see it in modern day, like the world moves because, because individuals innovate and evolve, whether it's Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos has created eight hundred…
Proven Strategies to Accelerate Growth, Productivity and Profits with George Stalk, Jr.
- ▶ 6:42 George Stalk Jr. I, you know, I think Amazon's a good example where Jeff Bezos says, uh, your gross margin is my target.
Ravi Gupta: The Realities of Success
- ▶ 23:20 Ravi Gupta There's this story about Alexa with Bezos that's similar, where they came back and said, look, the latency is going to be this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:58 Ravi Gupta One of the big things that's so fascinating is, uh, again, Bezos says this in one of his letters, but consumers are divinely discontent.
- ▶ 1:21:58 Ravi Gupta So they say, okay, look, I, I, uh, I'm sure you've read the Bezos stuff of Bezos's point was like, my job is to make two or three good decisions a day.
Aaron Dignan: Change The Way You Work
- ▶ 12:20 Aaron Dignan They don't, you know, it's just that horizon is so different, which is one of the reasons why you hear, you know, Bezos talking about like, if I make a seven-year bet, I'm already winning because nobody else will.
Neil Pasricha: Simple Rules for Happiness
- ▶ 1:39:22 Neil Pasricha You know about the 10,000 year clock that Bezos and the Long Now Foundation are stabbing to the side of a mountain to dong every hundred years or whatever, to give us the idea and principle that what we're living in isn't, we're living in…
Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations
- ▶ 1:57:51 Kunal Shah I know about the Bezos framework of regret minimization framework, and, and you can talk about many of these things. 2 times in the scene
David Sinclair: Reversing the Aging Process
- ▶ 1:09:38 Shane Parrish I'm thinking of Altos Labs with Jeff Bezos and some others committed about three billion, uh, which is the biggest seed investment I've ever seen in my life.
#132 Ret. Gen. Stanley McChrystal - The Essence of Leadership
- ▶ 25:14 Shane Parrish Uh, Jeff Bezos has the disagree and commit.
#130 Diana Chapman: Trusting Your Instincts
- ▶ 41:12 Shane Parrish And it was, uh, I think it's Jeff Bezos, but I'm going to butcher the quote a little bit, but it was basically to the effect of when my body disagrees with the data, it's usually my body that's right and the data that's wrong.
#129 Marc Andreessen: Interview with an Icon
- ▶ 1:13:25 Marc Andreessen Ben and I had this, uh, we had this, we had this, uh, we talked to Jeff Bezos about this at one point, and, uh, he asked us why we were starting a venture capital firm and not another company. 6 times in the scene
#121 Walter Isaacson: Curiosity Fuels Creativity
- ▶ 15:45 Walter Isaacson Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates, people who've run great companies.
#116 Jeff Immelt: Leadership In A Crisis
- ▶ 41:49 Jeff Immelt If you look at Bezos, you know, Amazon's a conglomerate, but it's a software company.
#112 Adam Grant: Rethinking Your Position
- ▶ 55:36 Shane Parrish I think Bezos had something along these lines too, right? 7 times in the scene
#111 Joel Greenblatt: Investing Made Simple
- ▶ 37:38 Joel Greenblatt Jeff Bezos. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:56 Joel Greenblatt I mean, if you have a guy like, uh, Jeff Bezos, who's really only thinking long-term, and then you think of all those companies that are losing money, that people are giving value because they see the future.
#109 Angela Duckworth: Grit and Human Behavior
- ▶ 13:39 Angela Duckworth You know, they're the Jeff Bezos's.
#108 Thomas Zurbuchen: Adventures in Astrophysics
- ▶ 1:13:00 Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen I think, uh, Blue Origin, you know, Jeff Bezos's company is right behind them.
- ▶ 1:20:13 Shane Parrish Versus opening that information up to the world so that the next Elon or the next Jeff Bezos gets a head start
#107 Matt Ridley: Infinite Innovation
- ▶ 13:57 Matt Ridley But if you, you know, if you look at the careers of people like Thomas Edison or Jeff Bezos, uh, or talk to any great innovators today, they all emphasize the importance of trial and error, failure of getting things wrong and starting…
- ▶ 18:29 Matt Ridley Jeff Bezos is interesting on this because he talks about the importance of swinging and missing, and if you're not swinging
#104 Nir Eyal: Mastering Indistraction
#98 Sahil Lavingia: Observing the Present
- ▶ 18:04 Sahil Lavingia Like Jeff Bezos says I need two hundred billion dollars or whatever he has now, but for some reason,
#95 Code Cubitt: Coachability Is Critical
- ▶ 8:30 Code Cubitt That didn't happen before, but I think the, the sort of the cache and persona of an entrepreneur is the, the Bill Gates, the, the Zuckerbergs of the world, these, these world changing, amazing, uh, you know, genius types, uh, Bezos,…
#94 Chamath Palihapitiya: Understanding Yourself
- ▶ 43:08 Chamath Palihapitiya Uh, and we worked on this analysis and basically, you know, he said to me, I think that Bezos is a better capital allocator than Buffett. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:33 Chamath Palihapitiya Jeff Bezos. 2 times in the scene
#85 Bethany McLean: Crafting a Narrative
- ▶ 37:09 Bethany McLean Um, there's the billionaire backer model that the Washington Post has with, with Jeff Bezos.
#81 Jason Calacanis: Intelligent Risk
- ▶ 58:32 Jason Calacanis And Bezos doing the HQ two thing. 3 times in the scene
#72 Neil Pasricha: Happy Habits
- ▶ 1:23:07 Shane Parrish So talk to me about Bezos and the flywheel. 3 times in the scene
#67 Jim Collins: Keeping the Flywheel in Motion
- ▶ 1:03:28 Shane Parrish Like Jeff invited you out to Amazon, I think it was in
#54 Jason Fried: Doing the Enough Thing
- ▶ 19:16 Shane Parrish Um, it sounds a lot like one of your investors, uh, when you were saying that, it sounds like Jeff Bezos a little bit. 14 times in the scene
#42 Atul Gawande: The Path to Perpetual Progress
- ▶ 1:18 Shane Parrish Commenting on the initiative, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos said, the degree of difficulty is high, and success is going to require an expert's knowledge, a beginner's mind, and a long-term orientation.
#41 Tobi Lütke: The Trust Battery
- ▶ 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?
#3 Sanjay Bakshi: Why Mental Models
- ▶ 46:49 Shane Parrish As you were talking, you were answering there, I was trying to think of the differences between Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs, and one would be if you had to categorize him purely analytic, and the other would be driven by an intuitive sense… 2 times in the scene