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- Jeff Bezos: It is always day one
- Clayton Christensen & Marc Andreessen | Startup Grind Global
- Clayton Christensen: Where does growth come from? | Talks at Google
- Benedict Evans "The End of the Beginning"
Jeff Bezos: It is always Day One
Jeff Bezos, Chairman and CEO of Amazon, (and richest man in the world) is a guest at the George W. Bush Presidential Center’s Forum on Leadership. He talks about the principles he follows to keep Amazon, and individuals, at the top.
Two-pizza rule
It's always day one
Get some packing tables!
Jeff Bezos In 1999 On Amazon's Plans Before The Dotcom Crash
Jeff Bezos explains his ambitious vision for Amazon in a 1999 interview. He made clear the company’s focus was on “great customer service” and discusses his real estate strategy. Bezos said, “There’s no guarantee that Amazon.com can be a successful company. What we’re trying to do is very complicated.” He added, “Scale is important to us and we’re going to go after that kind of scale.”
Love when he interrupts when the interviewer opens with "two sides of the story..." "There aren't two sides, it's just customer service!"
Marc Andreessen is an innovator and creator who pioneered a software category used by more than a billion people and established multiple billion-dollar companies. Marc co-created the highly influential Mosaic Internet browser and co-founded both Netscape and Loudcloud (Opsware). Most recently, Marc co-founded the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz which invests in technology companies including Airbnb, Actifio, BuzzFeed, Coinbase, Facebook, Github, Pinterest, Honor, and Twitter, among others.
There are few people whose impact on entrepreneurs and business in general you hear about as frequently as Clayton Christensen. Clay’s body of work includes co-founding a publicly traded company, being a Rhodes Scholar, writing one of the most influential business books of our generation, fighting cancer and a stroke that forced him to relearn to speak, teaching thousands at the Harvard Business School, and raising five children.
They were interviewed by Derek Andersen, founder of Startup Grind.
Clayton Christensen (Innovator's Dilemma) & Marc Andreessen (a16z) | Startup Grind Global
Published Feb 29, 2016 (occupy Leap Day).
Clayton Christensen: "Where does Growth come from?" | Talks at Google
Clayton presents brand new content on different ways to think about growth and he shared some of his unique perspective on "measuring your life" (as seen in his TED talk) with the audience. Talks at Google, Aug 8, 2016
the end of the beginning
In his now annual state-of-innovation talk at the a16z Summit in November 2018, Andreessen Horowitz’ Benedict Evans walks through where we are now in software eating the world... and how things may continue to change over the next 10 years. What's the state of not just "the world of tech", but tech in the world? The access story is now coming to an end, observes Evans, but the use story is just beginning: Most of the people are now online, but most of the money is still not. If we think we're in a period of disruption right now, how will the next big platform shifts -- like machine learning -- impact huge swathes of retail, manufacturing, marketing, fintech, healthcare, entertainment, and more? Especially as technology begins to tackle bigger problems, in harder markets, at deeper (and more structural) levels?
Why do companies invest in short-term capital creation projects instead of disruptive innovations? Because it's easier to generate capital than innovations. Once you get more capital you need to invest that, too. So you keep investing capital in more short-term projects that create quick capital. The result? Companies flat-line in growth and lose relevance. You can probably name at least ten major US companies like this right now...
Clayton Christensen on How to Build a Disruptive Business | Startup Grind
There are few people whose impact on entrepreneurs and business in general you hear about as frequently as Clayton Christensen. Clay’s body of work includes co-founding a publicly traded company, being a Rhodes Scholar, writing one of the most influential business books of our generation, fighting cancer and a stroke that forced him to relearn to speak, teaching thousands at the Harvard Business School, and raising five children.