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
We are very pleased with our acceleration in new customer acquisition. It took us 27 months to serve our first million customers, and less than six months to serve our second million.
We think this is a big deal, ... If we can bring the world of books to customers, wherever they happen to be, that's a worthwhile thing to work on.
We think this is a win, win, win for publishers, authors and customers.
This single individual completely changed something. That's the kind of thing people can do anywhere. They can do it in Seattle; they can do it in North Dakota.
We'll ferociously manage the products we carry so that we sell only products that are profitable, ... The thirty-pound box of nails isn't long for our world.
While we aspire to have much of the skills Toysrus.com has, it would be foolish of us to say we have it now, ... We're very good in books, but as we enter into new categories there is a learning curve, which gets expensive.
While free shipping is expensive for the company, it saves our customers tens of millions of dollars each quarter, and we plan to keep it in place indefinitely,
The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'
The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth's most customer-centric company.
We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.
Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.
If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness.
One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.