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How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 1:11 Shane Parrish Alfred went on to help build and sell Link Exchange to Microsoft, then scaled Zappos from startup to its 1.2 billion dollar acquisition by Amazon as the COO and CFO.
- ▶ 20:19 Alfred Lin When Tony Hsieh left, um, Oracle to start this company that was originally called Internet Marketing Solutions because they were building websites, uh, he asked me to join that company. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:31 Shane Parrish Was there any moments sort of at Zappos or earlier with LinkExchange where you thought you had the wrong fit, but it turned around? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:32 Alfred Lin The culture of Zappos, um, was very special, and it was something that we wanted to preserve partly because Tony Hsieh had this experience at Link Exchange where we didn't define the values of the company.
- ▶ 1:12:46 Alfred Lin You know, link exchange, do we want to, do we want to sell the company to Microsoft?
- ▶ 1:38:30 Alfred Lin Some, right now we're in the AI revolution, and the internet revolution when I first started working professionally after college was the Adlink Exchange, and then we started investing in 1999.