“The junior executives recommended a variety of different techniques to foster cross-group dialogue and afterward seemed proud of their own ingenuity. Then… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“I didn’t know Jeff Bezos but I just remember being blown away by the fact that he was there with his sleeves… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Usenet bulletin-board posting, August 21, 1994: Well-capitalized start-up seeks extremely talented C/C++/Unix developers to help pioneer commerce on the Internet. You must… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Whenever Jeff Bezos roamed a fulfillment center or his own Seattle headquarters, he looked for defects—flaws in the company’s systems or even… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“The book clearly resonated with Amazon’s founder. On the last page, a section completed a few weeks before his death, Walton wrote:… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Book publishers needed only to listen to Jeff Bezos himself to have their fears stoked. Amazon’s founder repeatedly suggested he had little… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“People don’t have any idea yet how impactful the Internet is going to be and that this is still Day 1 in… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“There was little science to Amazon’s earliest distribution methods. The company held no inventory itself at first. When a customer bought a book, Amazon… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“They agreed on five core values and wrote them down on a whiteboard in a conference room: customer obsession, frugality, bias for action, ownership,… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“In a world where consumers had limited choice, you needed to compete for locations,” says Ross, who went on to cofound eCommera, a British… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“The first week after the official launch, they took $12,000 in orders and shipped $846 worth of books, according to Eric Dillon, one of… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Look, you should wake up worried, terrified every morning,” he told his employees. “But don’t be worried about our competitors because they ' re… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started. It is both missionary and mercenary, and throughout… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
We see Google experimenting in so many places outside of its core search and advertising business, whether that's bringing broadband Internet to the world… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“The production philosophy pioneered by Toyota calls for a focus on those activities that create value for the customer and the systematic eradication of… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Apple’s founder reportedly fired employees in the elevator and screamed at underperforming executives. Perhaps there is something endemic in the fast-paced technology business that… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Just as Clayton Christensen had predicted in The Innovator’s Dilemma, technological innovation caused wrenching pain to the company and the broader industry” — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Eric Benson took about two weeks to construct a preliminary version that grouped together customers who had similar purchasing histories and then found books… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
