I just interviewed the man who invented Amazon Prime.
He started a business worth $40 billion today and served on Amazon's board for 15 yrs.
Here are lessons from Bing Gordon that'll save you years of mistakes: https://t.co/NatY4K3zlK
I just interviewed the man who invented Amazon Prime. He started a business worth $40 billion today and served on Amazon's board for 15 yrs. Here are lessons from Bing Gordon that'll save you years of mistakes: https://t.co/NatY4K3zlK
Early on, Amazon.com tried to launch an auction business, but it couldn’t out-auction eBay. Learning from our failure, we took the eBay concept and recast it with distinct Amazon.com values and technology, creating our ultra-successful third-party seller program. Jeff likes to say, “Failure happens.” Stumbles are a part of life, but at Amazon. com,
... See moreJohn Rossman • The Amazon Way: 14 Leadership Principles Behind the World's Most Disruptive Company
I came across the fact that the World Wide Web was growing at something like 2,300 percent a year. This is in 1994. Anything growing that fast is going to be big. I looked at that and I was like, “I should come up with a business idea and get it on the Internet, then let the Internet grow around us. And we can keep working on it.” I made a list of
... See moreDavid M. Rubenstein • How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers
Want to see a great company story? Read Jeff Bezos’s three-page letter he wrote to shareholders in 1997.
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Groupon—which is hard to remember as a disruptive enterprise today, but was then part of the first wave of “power to the people” internet companies.