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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Jeff Bezos comes up
How to be a CEO when AI breaks all the old playbooks | Sequoia CEO Coach Brian Halligan
- ▶ 22:43 Brian Halligan Um, it wasn't Jeff Bezos.
Mental models for building products people love ft. Stewart Butterfield
- ▶ 10:14 Stewart Butterfield Yeah, yeah, and I think then you layer on another concept like the, um, Bezos used the term divine discontent, um,
- ▶ 16:48 Stewart Butterfield Again, Jeff Bezos' line, your margin is my opportunity, um, and pretty obvious what he meant by that.
How AI is reshaping the product role | Oji and Ezinne Udezue
- ▶ 47:08 Oji Udezue Pick a sharp problem, pick something that if you really solve it, people will come, you know, it's watching Jeff Bezos from the eighties feels prescient. 2 times in the scene
I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson
- ▶ 1:08:44 Andrew Wilkinson Uh, I remember I had this moment where I met this guy who is a multi-billionaire, single digit multi-billionaire, and he goes, oh, Jeff Bezos, he's just so fucking rich. 3 times in the scene
From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products
- ▶ 1:35:33 Lenny Rachitsky It makes me think of Jeff Bezos as this great quote.
Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26)
- ▶ 26:15 Mayur Kamat Like you should not be on that track because the moment the word work-life balance comes, uh, I think Jeff Bezos has this thing that he hits the word because it means like they're opposing things that need to be balanced, right? 2 times in the scene
Become a better communicator: Specific frameworks to improve your clarity, influence, and impact
- ▶ 31:41 Lenny Rachitsky This is very much along the lines of the whole Amazon six page memo where Jeff Bezos just kind of realized if you can't write it out as a long memo and explain yourself in prose, you, you don't actually know what you're saying.
Rituals of Great Decision-Making | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024
- ▶ 9:06 Shishir Mehrotra Uh, Colin was, uh, former chief of staff to Jeff Bezos at Amazon. 4 times in the scene
4 questions Shreyas wishes he’d asked himself sooner | Former PM leader at Stripe, Twitter, Google
- ▶ 19:06 Shreyas Doshi You know, I read somewhere, or I heard Bezos say, that two-way doors, you should, like, it's a two-way door, you quickly make a decision.
- ▶ 24:10 Shreyas Doshi They are two-way doors at Bezos's level.
- ▶ 34:52 Shreyas Doshi And the other one is the authority bias because Bezos said it.
Conscious leadership: Unlocking vision, strategy and purpose | JM Nickels (Uber, Waymo, DoorDash)
- ▶ 45:43 JM Nickels It's a, almost a different flavor of, I think the Bezos saying of, you know, he's like, I like a crisp, a crisp doc and a messy meeting.
Lessons in product leadership and AI strategy from Glean, Google, Amazon, and Slack | Tamar Yehoshua
- ▶ 1:17 Lenny Rachitsky In our conversation, we get into all kinds of juicy advice, including why companies don't have to be run well to win, why you don't need a career plan, the two habits she credits most for helping her succeed throughout her career, what she…
- ▶ 26:23 Lenny Rachitsky You mentioned places you've worked in, folks you've worked with, worked with folks like Jeff Bezos, Stuart Butterfield, some of the top product thinkers, leaders in the world. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:01 Lenny Rachitsky I asked about Jeff Bezos and Stuart Butterfield.
How embracing your emotions will accelerate your career | Joe Hudson (Art of Accomplishment)
- ▶ 38:26 Joe Hudson It's like, like, you know, Jeff Bezos made up Amazon.
Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Partner at Floodgate)
- ▶ 1:36:52 Mike Maples, Jr. But some people objected, they said, okay, that's easy for the founders to do because they're founders of the company and that's Steve Jobs, that's Jeff Bezos.
Be fundamentally different, not incrementally better | Jag Duggal (Nubank, Facebook, Google)
- ▶ 28:10 Lenny Rachitsky Jeff Bezos had this quote on his Lex Friedman podcast, where if you're, if you have data and you have an anecdote, usually the anecdote is, is right.
- ▶ 35:26 Jag Duggal Per your, uh, your Jeff Bezos, uh, uh, anecdote, uh, the anecdote usually trumps the data.
Unpacking Amazon’s unique ways of working | Bill Carr (author of Working Backwards)
- ▶ 0:00 Bill Carr As Jeff would say, we took it as an article of faith.
- ▶ 6:47 Bill Carr And, um, and obviously Jeff was a huge driver of those things, but what people don't realize is that Amazon was actually to some degree equally focused on process innovation. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:22 Bill Carr Design team, the product team, they're all in one group and they'll go operate autonomously, but not completely autonomously because we, the senior leadership team, Jeff and the S team want to know that they're on the right track.
- ▶ 18:51 Bill Carr At some level, whether it be the vice president, senior vice president, or all the way up to the Jeff level and his direct reports called the S team, this plan would be reviewed and scrutinized deeply as well.
- ▶ 30:38 Bill Carr I work with Jeff on all kinds of different new ideas. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:22 Bill Carr Whereas we had, as Jeff would say, we took it as an article of faith.
- ▶ 41:40 Bill Carr And that's exactly where Jeff's mind went.
- ▶ 57:02 Bill Carr Jeff and the S team were reading the book Good to Great. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:00 Bill Carr I mean, Jeff, Jeff wrote about a product, you know, there was a puck that sat on your, on the, the, in your kitchen that you would talk to and ask it for things and, you know, could shop from it.
- ▶ 1:13:20 Bill Carr And number two, they were meeting with Jeff regularly. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:31:18 Bill Carr So I'd say a lot of my personal development and growth, and that's a big thing that I learned, um, uh, from Jeff at Amazon.
How to get press for your product | Jason Feifer (editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine)
- ▶ 43:14 Jason Feifer If you have a problem with a purchase that you made on Amazon, you don't email Bezos. 2 times in the scene
Brian Balfour: 10 lessons on career, growth, and life
- ▶ 16:16 Brian Balfour It might be from Bezos.
What sets great teams apart | Lane Shackleton (CPO of Coda)
- ▶ 1:14:34 Lane Shackleton And the other thing was, uh, Jeff Bezos sent this very famous memo, which basically said no more PowerPoint at Amazon.
How to drive word of mouth | Nilan Peiris (CPO of Wise)
- ▶ 48:14 Lenny Rachitsky Reminds me of Amazon, where Jeff Bezos kind of realized, like, there are things that are going to be always true with Amazon. 2 times in the scene
How to become a category pirate | Christopher Lochhead (Author of Play Bigger, Niche Down, more)
- ▶ 35:10 Christopher Lochhead So we could agree that Jeff Bezos is not a dumb person. 2 times in the scene
The ultimate guide to A/B testing | Ronny Kohavi (Airbnb, Microsoft, Amazon)
- ▶ 1:19:25 Ronny Kohavi But when I was at Amazon, I still remember that email from Jeff, which is no more PowerPoint.
Leveraging growth advisors, mastering SEO, and honing your craft | Luc Levesque (Shopify, Meta)
- ▶ 1:06:06 Lenny Rachitsky This also makes me think about, I was watching a Jeff Bezos interview and I asked him what his morning routine was. 4 times in the scene
The science of product, big bets, and how AI is impacting the future of music | Gustav Söderström
- ▶ 36:57 Gustav Söderström One downside that I'm extremely impressed with Jeff Bezos for seeing is if you have teams that compete with each other, the incentives are to, to hide your results, hide your code, and that should make for an organization that gets no… 3 times in the scene
Mastering paid growth | Jonathan Becker (Thrive Digital)
- ▶ 1:19:42 Jonathan Becker And so one of the, you know, questions we might ask, I actually borrowed a Jeff Bezos question from early stage Amazon, where I asked people,
Lessons from scaling Stripe | Claire Hughes Johnson (ex-COO of Stripe)
- ▶ 1:18:53 Claire Hughes Johnson But really, I, I think the other thing is in the framework, in the book I talk about this framework that Bezos uses, type one, type two decisions, like, is it high impact?
How to nail your product positioning | April Dunford (Obviously Awesome)
- ▶ 44:15 April Dunford When he got the idea for the Segway, he lit, he literally lifted his little pinky and raised a hundred million from like Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos and a who's who of Silicon Valley venture.
What differentiates the highest-performing product teams | John Cutler (The Beautiful Mess)
- ▶ 35:03 John Cutler So I think that that's like another thing I think related to that when it comes to the product world is just like a core belief in the power of products that, you know, the, the Jeff Bezos thing that like the success of today was set in…
What it takes to become a top 1% PM | Ian McAllister (Uber, Amazon, Airbnb)
- ▶ 39:56 Lenny Rachitsky What did you learn from folks like Jeff Bezos and Jeff Wilkie about building product leadership company building? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:13 Ian McAllister But there was this Jeff idea that the team was super excited about because I think in some meeting he'd kind of sketched it out or whatever. 4 times in the scene
Building a meaningful career | Jason Shah (Airbnb, Amazon, Microsoft, Alchemy)
- ▶ 29:29 Jason Shah I've gotten to see sort of Jeff Bezos at a distance. 4 times in the scene
The nature of product | Marty Cagan, Silicon Valley Product Group
- ▶ 57:22 Marty Cagan And all the best leaders I know, whether we're talking Bezos or whether we're talking Elon Musk or, you know, anybody.