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Jeff Bezos

"When it's tough, will you give up, or will you be relentless?"

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Cohen, N. (2017). Jeff Bezos. In Cohen, N. The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball. New Press, pp. 101-112

103

“The idea,” which Shaw says occurred to him and Bezos, “was always that someone would be allowed to make a profit as an intermediary. The key question is, ‘Who will get to be that middleman?’”

my god. capitalism warps your fucking brain

—p.103 by Noam Cohen 5 years, 7 months ago

“The idea,” which Shaw says occurred to him and Bezos, “was always that someone would be allowed to make a profit as an intermediary. The key question is, ‘Who will get to be that middleman?’”

my god. capitalism warps your fucking brain

—p.103 by Noam Cohen 5 years, 7 months ago
110

Upon achieving that $ 100 billion milestone, Bezos was prompted to look back twenty years to when he was “driving the packages to the post office myself and hoping we might one day afford a forklift.”

when your leader is still wearing his rebel beret, you should be very scared

(they were once the underdog so he thinks they're always the underdog or at least should get the affordances befitting the underdog)

—p.110 by Noam Cohen 5 years, 7 months ago

Upon achieving that $ 100 billion milestone, Bezos was prompted to look back twenty years to when he was “driving the packages to the post office myself and hoping we might one day afford a forklift.”

when your leader is still wearing his rebel beret, you should be very scared

(they were once the underdog so he thinks they're always the underdog or at least should get the affordances befitting the underdog)

—p.110 by Noam Cohen 5 years, 7 months ago