“It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.” —Alan Kay” — Brad Stone Future Copy Share Image
“Developers are alchemists and our job is to do everything we can to get them to do their alchemy.” — Brad Stone Alchemists Copy Share Image
“Bezos believed that high margins justified rivals’ investments in research and development and attracted more competition, while low margins attracted customers and… — Brad Stone Investing 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 Amazon 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 Business Copy Share Image
“At least one anointed bar raiser would participate in every interview process and would have the power to veto a candidate who… — Brad Stone Business Copy Share Image
“To adjudicate the matter, he turned to a Silicon Valley legend, a former Columbia University football coach named Bill Campbell.” — Brad Stone Football coach 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...… — Brad Stone Always Copy Share Image
“When I read that letter, I thought, we don’t make money when we sell things. We make money when we help customers… — Brad Stone Money Copy Share Image
“Bezos insisted the company needed to master anything that touched the hallowed customer experience, and he resisted any efforts to project profitability.” — Brad Stone Business Copy Share Image
“What we are doing here is building a giant rocket ship, and we’re going to light the fuse. Then it’s either going… — Brad Stone Moon 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… — Brad Stone Big Copy Share Image
There's a new set of transformative technologies such as machine learning, AI, and virtual reality that will spawn another set of big… — Brad Stone AI Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of retailers: there are those folks who work to figure how to charge more, and there are companies… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
Certainly some hosts on Airbnb are opening up their spare bedrooms to meet new people; and some drivers use Uber to carpool… — Brad Stone Community Copy Share Image
“Each group was required to propose its own “fitness function”—a linear equation that it could use to measure its own impact without… — Brad Stone Fitness 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… — Brad Stone Core values Copy Share Image
On Sept. 12, 2016, there was a momentary realignment in the constellation of global business. For the first time, the five largest… — Brad Stone Apple Copy Share Image
“Bill Miller, the chief investment officer at Legg Mason Capital Management and a major Amazon shareholder, asked Bezos at the time about… — Brad Stone Amazon Copy Share Image
“Rudeness is not cool. Defeating tiny guys is not cool. Close-following is not cool. Young is cool. Risk taking is cool. Winning… — Brad Stone Cool Copy Share Image
“The television episode was the foundation of another official award at Amazon, this one presented to an employee who identified an activity… — Brad Stone Amazon 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 Business Copy Share Image
“Bezos had seemingly made up his mind that he was no longer going to indulge in financial maneuvering as a way to… — Brad Stone Amazon Copy Share Image
“It was the combination of EC2 and S3 - storage and compute, two primitives linked together - that transformed both AWS and… — Brad Stone Business Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the most avid user of Amazon’s auction site was Bezos himself, who began to collect various scientific and historical curiosities. Most… — Brad Stone Amazon Copy Share Image
“Naturally, some of the reviews were negative. In speeches, Bezos later recalled getting an angry letter from an executive at a book… — Brad Stone Amazon Copy Share Image
“great companies fail not because they want to avoid disruptive change but because they are reluctant to embrace promising new markets that… — Brad Stone Business Copy Share Image
“He announced his intentions to build a spaceport by walking into the office of a local newspaper, the Van Horn Advocate, and… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Bezos took a series of odd jobs throughout high school. One summer he famously worked as a fryer at a local McDonald’s,… — Brad Stone Amazon Copy Share Image
I think the idealism has always been marketing. Even back in the early days of Apple and the 'pirate' mentality, they were… — Brad Stone Apple 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 Amazon Copy Share Image
“companies to acquire other firms only when they had fully mastered their virtuous circles, and then “as an accelerator of flywheel momentum,… — Brad Stone Business Copy Share Image
“Any process can be improved. Defects that are invisible to the knowledgeable may be obvious to newcomers. The” — Brad Stone Improved Copy Share Image
“Bezos didn’t believe anyone could make a good decision about a feature or a product without knowing precisely how it would be… — Brad Stone Amazon 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… — Brad Stone Philosophy Copy Share Image
“In the short term, the stock market is a voting machine. In the long run, it’s a weighing machine” that measures a… — Brad Stone Business Copy Share Image
“Any process can be improved. Defects that are invisible to the knowledgeable may be obvious to newcomers. The simplest solutions are the… — Brad Stone Improved 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,… — Brad Stone Amazon 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,… — Brad Stone Amazon Copy Share Image
