A deeper understanding of Amazon
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🗓️ 20 August 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Amazon is one of the most extraordinary business stories of our time. Many people in the tech industry have a general understanding of this story, picking up bits and pieces of its lore and culture over the years.
But what are the real reasons for Amazon's success? What can today's startup entrepreneurs learn from what Jeff Bezos did? And where is the company headed next? Two investors spent the better part of two months researching Amazon in their spare time to answer questions like those, and they just shared what they learned.
Ben Gilbert, managing director at Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs, and David Rosenthal, a San Francisco-based angel investor, this week released an episode of their podcast, Acquired, that spans nearly 4-and-a-half hours, providing a deeper understanding of Amazon and new insights into how the company works.
Gilbert joins us on this week's episode of the GeekWire Podcast to discuss some of the key takeaways and highlights from their Amazon deep dive.
With Todd Bishop and John Cook. Edited and produced by Curt Milton. Theme music by Daniel L.K. Caldwell.
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| 0:00.0 | You happen to be in the neighborhood in Bellevue of the original Amazon house. |
| 0:05.0 | Did you happen to notice if the historic mailbox was still on the corner? |
| 0:10.0 | You know something about Amazon that I don't because I don't know why there's a historic mailbox. |
| 0:15.0 | Okay. |
| 0:16.0 | This is so... |
| 0:17.0 | This is Todd's favorite thing. |
| 0:19.0 | There used to be this oversized mailbox on the corner, like right at the curb, because |
| 0:24.1 | the guy who was renting that house back in the mid-90s needed all that extra space for all |
| 0:28.6 | the book catalogs that he was receiving. |
| 0:30.8 | It's kind of like the Jaws reference, but for Amazon. |
| 0:33.1 | I'm going to need a bigger mailbox. |
| 0:39.3 | Hello, and welcome to Geekwire. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm Geekwire co-founder Todd Bishop. |
| 0:42.9 | And I'm Geekwire co-founder John Cook. |
| 0:44.9 | We are coming to you from Seattle, where we get to report each day on what's happening around us in technology, business, and innovation. |
| 0:51.8 | What happens here matters everywhere and every week on this show. |
| 0:55.2 | We get to talk about some of the most interesting items in the news and some of the most |
| 0:58.8 | interesting companies we get to cover. Our guest on the show this week is Ben Gilbert. |
| 1:03.8 | He is a managing director at Pioneer Square Labs and the co-host of the podcast Acquired |
| 1:10.5 | with his co-host, David Rosenthal. Ben, it is great to have you on the show. |
| 1:15.3 | It's great to be here. You are right. What happens here is important everywhere, and I just love |
| 1:20.4 | the work that you guys put into this ecosystem. Thanks, Ben. Well, we wanted to have you on, |
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