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're not competitor obsessed, we're customer obsessed. We start with the customer and we work backwards.
We were hoping to build a small profitable company; and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.
Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.
One of the things that I hope will distinguish Amazon.com is that we continue to be a company that defies easy analogy. This requires a lot of innovation, and innovation requires a lot of random walk.
I feel like in one year it's very easy to go from Internet poster boy to Internet piсata.
To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.
I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.
If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company.
If you have a business model that relies on customers being misinformed, you better start working on changing your business model.
Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.
People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often
It's harder to be kind than clever
You want to look at what other companies are doing. It's very important not to be hermetically sealed. But you don't want to look at it as if, 'OK, we're going to copy that.' You want to look at it and say, 'That's very interesting. What can we be inspired to do as a result of that?' And then put your own unique twist on it.
We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can.