Brian Dumaine: ...what motivates Jeff Bezos to dream bigger and bigger for Amzon

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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In recent years, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has been at the top or very near the top of the list of the world’s wealthiest people. Forbes Magazine recently estimated his net worth at $186 billion. Bezos has dramatically changed the way the world shops and the way businesses do business.

Joining us on this episode is award-winning financial journalist Brian Dumaine who’s a contributing editor at Fortune Magazine and the author of the book, "Bezonomics: How Amazon is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies are Learning From It".

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens. And I'm Jan Black. In recent years, Amazon founder Jeff
0:18.1	Bezos has been at the top or very near the top of the list of the world's
0:22.6	wealthiest people. Forbes Magazine recently estimated his net worth at $186 billion. Bezos has
0:29.8	dramatically changed the way the world shops and the way businesses do business. And joining us on
0:34.8	this episode is award-winning financial journalist Brian Dumein,
0:38.5	who's a contributing editor at Fortune Magazine and the author of the book Bezonomics,
0:43.8	how Amazon is changing our lives and what the world's best companies are learning from it.
0:48.8	Brian, thank you so much for joining us. Oh, it's my pleasure. Great to be here today.
0:53.4	Tell us why you decided to just immerse yourself in the world of Amazon. Oh, it's my pleasure. Great to be here today. Tell us why you decided to just
0:55.4	immerse yourself in the world of Amazon. Well, Amazon is changing our lives in so many ways.
1:02.4	I mean, in terms of our personal lives, it's where a lot of us are shifting more towards
1:07.3	shopping online and that was really emphasized during the pandemic, as a lot of people
1:13.4	couldn't go out, couldn't go into supermarkets, couldn't go to department stores or malls.
1:18.6	And it's also changing the business world in the way we do business and the rules of business
1:25.6	and the speed and the efficiency of which Amazon operates.
1:29.7	So I figured if we could understand how Amazon operates, what makes it tick,
1:36.9	we could better understand where our own lives are headed and where the world of business
1:41.1	is headed.
1:42.2	You said one of the things that Bezos has done since day one is focus on the customer
1:47.7	rather than focusing on the competitors.
1:50.3	How has that really helped him?
1:52.0	And why do you think he decided to do that in the first place?
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