Jeff Bezos

“Jeff Bezos was actually an early investor in Business Insider.”

“You ask the question, for all of these things that I did last week, what are the things where if I hadn't done this thing, nothing would have changed? And you cross it off the list. And if things keep getting crossed off that list, you probably shouldn't be do…”

“I think in order to be that successful, you have to have some kind of personality disorder. Or like trauma or something, and you look at Musk or Bezos, or if you read more about Bezos, I think he's a really difficult person to work for.”

“Are you jealous of Jeff Bezos? No, Jeff Bezos is not someone that you compete with, right? Jeff Bezos is often this celebrity world. Right? Jay-Z. That's not someone you compete with, right? The people you compete with are people within your bubble.”

“I think luck plays a part in the magnitude of the success, but not the probability of success. So I think all of them, the probability of success for them is all at 90 plus percent. They would all be good at what they do, Positive impact, you know, make millio…”

“When Jeff Bezos started Amazon, he noticed this like crazy stat, you know, this new thing called the internet was growing 2700% per year.”

“Well, we're an LLC, so he's a member, he has units, and every year he gets distributions, and he's made his money back many times over, and he still owns, you know, his shares, and we haven't had to sell the business. It's been a great investment for him.”

“We did take some money from Jeff Bezos, though, back in 2006, six or seven or six, I think. It was like a secondary thing. So he bought some shares from me and from David. So that money went into our pockets and never went into the business. No money has ever …”

“So it was launched in 2006. It went bankrupt in 2016. And so basically it was a service and I didn't actually realize any of this, but it raised six million dollars, including from Jeff Bezos. And they had 5000 freelance guides, meaning people who they hired. …”

“And he goes, sorting for optimistic people is a good proxy for leadership potential and likelihood of success. Perceiving yourself as lucky is a proxy for optimism. Basically, people will always tell you they're, you know, they're optimistic about things, but …”

“I think he had it all, but whatever reason he had like this Midlife crisis that made him throw it all away.”

“His point was that, like, if you're planning on a year, if you're investing in a product that may not, you know, reap any benefits over a year, You have a lot of competition, five years, less competition, 10 years, no competition.”

“And by the way, like whatever, like, you know, people always make you into cartoon when you get to that level, he is, you know, for sure, like a top two or three best CEO in the last 40 years.”

“Well, yeah, it's the first round of funding, so six billion dollars raised, and they got a hundred people, and they're building AI for, like, the physical world, so it's not just robots, but basically, like, the manufacturing of airplanes and ships and Things …”

“We took money out from day one, almost, not quite. Year two, at the very latest, we were pulling out profits and then we had Bezos buying secondaries from Jason and I that just set a baseline.”

“He's one of the only titans of industry who I've ever met. When he looked me in the eye, he was never looking around to see who else was in the room. And he was like, I was a little, kind of a small fry compared to all the people who could be around. He looked…”

“What I'm telling you is that the anecdotes typically show you that your metric is incomplete, that it's not capturing some part of the customer's experience that actually matters, and both the metric is right and the customer is right. The metric is just incom…”