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The Tai Lopez Show

How Jeff Bezos Made Amazon A Billion Dollar Company: My Interview With Brad Stone

The Tai Lopez Show

Tai Lopez

Business

4.86.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2015

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On today's Book-Of-The-Day show, I'm really happy to be speaking with Brad Stone, who wrote a book on Jeff Bezos and how he built Amazon.com into one of the greatest companies, not just of our time, but maybe of all time.
Learn more about Jeff Bezos' story and purchase The Everything Store by following this link: www.tailopez.com/theeverythingstore
The book, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, applies whether you're an entrepreneur now, or dreaming of bigger things in the future.
As you read the book, you might notice that Bezos was very aggressive, maybe to a fault at points, but it made him who he was.
At his 2010 Princeton commencement speech, he said, "In the end, we are our choices."
He took the path less trod upon, and he was so much happier for it.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, I've got a awesome guest on today's show. We're talking Book of the

0:07.1

Day. One of my favorite book of the days is about Jeff Bezos, how he built

0:11.4

Amazon.com into one of the great companies, not just of our time, but maybe of

0:17.1

all time. The book is the everything store Jeff Bezos and the age of Amazon.

0:22.8

And I'm very happy to be speaking with Brad Stone who wrote the book. A lot of

0:28.8

time put into it. And we're just going to go and learn about Jeff Bezos and

0:34.2

Amazon and those listening, those of you listening, this applies whether you're

0:38.6

an entrepreneur now, whether you're dreaming of bigger things. And so thanks

0:44.9

for being on the on the show. Thanks, Ty. Thanks for having me. So what I like to do

0:50.0

with these is just jumping. I always like to eat the dessert first. I break the

0:54.2

rules. So my favorite story about Jeff Bezos and you cover this in the book.

0:59.9

There's quite a few, but let's start with your Jeff Bezos. You have a nice job.

1:05.8

You're comfortable. It's the 1990s. And you go, do I quit my job? And am I right

1:14.8

that he borrowed some money from his parents 70 grand or something like that? And

1:19.7

then kind of broke off and did his own thing. And I saw a video where he said the

1:25.6

regret minimalization framework where he was talking on YouTube. And he said, I

1:30.4

knew that even if it failed and I lost the money and lost the time and didn't have

1:35.7

my job, at least I wouldn't grow old regretting and one and seeing someone

1:40.8

else live out my dream. At least I knew I tried it myself. That's right. That's

1:45.8

exactly right. And it's interesting to tell this story because it's worth noting here that

1:50.6

this is like, this is almost one of the origin stories or businesses on the internet. I mean,

1:55.1

we're talking here in 1994. So more than 20 years ago, you know, Netscape hadn't even

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