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
For every leader in the company, not just for me, there are decisions that can be made by analysis. These are the best kinds of decisions!
No communication is terrible!
Our garage was basically science fair central.
And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I love great bookstores.
We've got thousands of investors counting on us. And we're a team of thousands of employees all counting on each other. That's fun.
But there's still so much you can do with technology to improve the customer experience. And that's the sense in which I believe it's still Day One, and that it's early in the day. If anything, the rate of change is accelerating.
My view is there's no bad time to innovate.
Obsess over customers.
Do something you're very passionate about, and don't try to chase what is kind of the "hot passion" of the day.
Many of the traits that make Amazon unusual are now deeply ingrained in the culture. In fact, if I wanted to change them, I couldn't. The cultures are self-reinforcing, and that's a good thing.
You cannot make a business case that you should be who you are not
Be proud of your choices, not your gifts.
I told all of our original investors that they would lose their money for sure.
Web 1.0 was making the Internet for people, Web 2.0 is making the Internet better for companies.