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Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, envisioned a company that made money by delivering value to rather than extracting value from its customers. In order to do that, he wanted to be both the price leader and customer service leader for the long run.
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
So Bezos suggested that the personalization team develop a much simpler system, one that made recommendations based on books that customers had already bought. Eric Benson took about two weeks to construct a preliminary version that grouped together customers who had similar purchasing histories and then found books that appealed to the people in
... See moreBrad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
We sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002. Since then, Elon Musk has founded SpaceX and co-founded Tesla Motors; Reid Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn; Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim together founded YouTube; Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons founded Yelp; David Sacks co-founded Yammer; and I co-founded Palantir. Today all seven of
... See morePeter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
But what Jeff Bezos cannot tolerate is someone making the same mistake over and over again or failing for the wrong reasons.