TIP199: Learning from Jeff Bezos - Blue Origin, Being a Founder, Profitability and more (Business Podcast)
We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network
Stig Brodersen
4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On today's show we play some of the best questions and answers we could find from interviews with Jeff Bezos. Jeff is the founder of Amazon and the wealthiest person in the world (over 140 billion).
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In this episode, you'll learn:
- How Jeff Bezos gaged his first year of business at Amazon
- How Jeff thinks about profitability and shareholder value
- How Jeff thinks about Blue Origin and space
- Why Jeff isn't concerned about the current quarter
- Why Jeff purchased the Washington Post
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TIP. |
| 0:02.6 | On today's show, we have a discussion about the wealthiest person on the entire planet, |
| 0:07.5 | Mr. Jeff Bezos. |
| 0:09.4 | As everyone knows, Jeff is the founder of Amazon and numerous other subsidiaries. |
| 0:14.1 | The amazing thing about Amazon and Jeff's rise to the top is it all happened within |
| 0:18.2 | the last 20 years. |
| 0:19.9 | Jeff grew Amazon from the ground up and today his personal net worth is $143 billion. |
| 0:27.8 | So just to put that in perspective, Jeff could spend $392,000 every single day for the |
| 0:36.6 | next thousand years before he'd run out of money. |
| 0:40.4 | And that's also assuming that he makes no interest on that money during that thousand years. |
| 0:45.8 | So during the interview, we play some of his responses to various interview questions |
| 0:50.0 | and we cover a wide array of topics to include even his thoughts on space in his company Blue |
| 0:56.1 | Origin. |
| 0:57.1 | Additionally, Stig was out on travel, so my good friend Brian Rutherford filled in for |
| 1:01.5 | him. |
| 1:02.5 | Brian is a former instructor of economics at West Point and he's a graduate of MIT. |
| 1:07.2 | So without further delay, here's our discussion around the ideas of Jeff Bezos. |
| 1:15.0 | You are listening to the Investors Podcast. |
| 1:17.9 | Where we study the financial markets and read the books that influence self-made billionaires |
| 1:22.2 | the most. |
| 1:23.2 | We keep you informed and prepared for the unexpected. |
| 1:30.2 | All right. |
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