Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos
Jeffrey Preston "Jeff" Bezosis an American technology entrepreneur and investor. He has played a role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, an online merchant of books and later of a wide variety of products and services, most recently video streaming. Amazon.com became the largest retailer on the World Wide Web and a model for Internet sales...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth12 January 1964
CityAlbuquerque, NM
CountryUnited States of America
The Net is pretty cool, but the physical world is the best medium ever.
There are multiple ways to be externally focused that are very successful. You can be customer-focused or competitor-focused. Some people are internally focused, and if they reach critical mass, they can tip the whole company.
We like to pioneer, we like to explore, we like to go down dark alleys and see what's on the other side.
Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make purchasing decisions.
I don't buy stocks, I make stocks.
I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online.
Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process.
I like to be counted on.
People who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds.
Good ideas will always get funded, so that's not going to be a problem. But you will see that it will be harder and harder for bad ideas to get funded.
The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.
My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.
If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.
The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.