His TED talk on electricity is incredible.

Clever, but it's sad how it seems his biggest motivation is money making partnerships with govts and destroying people's privacy.

I can almost taste his initial excitement 🚀

Didn't get a helping hand from the CIA?

So clear...

He was one of the first to understand aggregation theory, way before the name for it existed. https://stratechery.com/2015/aggregation-theory/ What he did with AWS was also incredible.

When someone writes 10 applications and then receives 2 offers, they consider the person who only wrote one application and got rejected to be lucky

Just be born into the right bloodline and be a front man for DoD

Thanks for sharing never heard this

i always find it interesting when he talks about the origins of Amazon because one of his mantras for founders is ‘don’t chase the hot thing’ but that’s what it sounds like he’s doing here.

Amazon is also deeply fiat and only won because of fiat. Their initial growth was funded by never ending cheap debt. They always just skirted the line of maximizing the debt they held while still bring able to make the payments. Only cheap debt makes it possible to grow that fast. The speedy growth...

Funny, now their margins are negative for selling things like books and signifigantly positive for their web services.

I feel the same way about npubs, events, zaps and relays. Entirely new approach, but not sure what the killer use case will be. Bezos understood the tech and had the faith to apply it to a business model with an entirely new possibility. It took 20 years to be profitable, but he did it. Likely simil...

i don't buy lotto tickets but that's just me ffs

I always say it’s about putting as much luck on your side as you can

number go up remains undefeated

But what's it got to do with Kevin Spacey?

And unwavering conviction.

Thank you, Jeff Bezos. Your heavily funded, loss-making growth strategy helped crush my organic growth local independent business years ago .Looking back, I'm strangely grateful. It pushed me to question the system, rethink money, and ultimately discover Bitcoin. Sometimes what feels like a defeat t...

I miss cds audio quality inside a simple disc with a beautiful art cover

One of my hobbies has been to never buy Amazon anything ever

I’m sure the insight was real, no doubt. But the world is full of real insights that never became Amazon. La visión sin esas condiciones es solo un sueño bien articulado. Por cada Bezos, hay mil emprendedores igualmente brillantes e igualmente visionarios que el mundo nunca conoció. ⚡️

A genius of the dotcom bubble. Something I learnt only 3years in entrepreneurship. You gotta go for an existing market. What I did being an entrepreneur in privacy is a difficult ride - I try to educate and create a market. Too difficult. But now on the Ai bubble we don't have a market in America....