“In early 2002, as part of a new personal ritual, he took time after the holidays to think and read. (In this… — Brad Stone Big idea Copy Share Image
“Andy Grove, the longtime CEO of Intel, was known to be so harsh and intimidating that a subordinate once fainted during a… — Brad Stone Performance review Copy Share Image
The emergence of Uber X was really the most important pivot maybe in the history of Silicon Valley. It's a vast majority… — Brad Stone Battles 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
“Miller knew nothing about toy retailing, but in a pattern that would recur over and over, Bezos didn’t care. He was looking… — Brad Stone Big things Copy Share Image
“As part of his ongoing quest for a better allocation of his own time, he decreed that he would no longer have… — Brad Stone Adventure Copy Share Image
“The companies that solved the innovator’s dilemma, Christensen wrote, succeeded when they “set up autonomous organizations charged with building new and independent… — Brad Stone Business Copy Share Image
“Taleb argued that the limitations of the human brain resulted in our species’ tendency to squeeze unrelated facts and events into cause-and-effect… — Brad Stone Human brain 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 Books Copy Share Image
For decades, technology entrepreneurship has been revered, and people like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk were heroes. — Brad Stone Elon musk Copy Share Image
“Missionaries have righteous goals and are trying to make the world a better place. Mercenaries are out for money and power and… — Brad Stone Better place Copy Share Image
A lot of the drawbacks, a lot of the difficulties that Uber has had, have been completely predictable, and they handled them… — Brad Stone Admit Copy Share Image
Amazon is famously run by studying and responding to its own data; yet when it comes to promotions, decisions are often subjective… — Brad Stone Data Copy Share Image
“Autonomous working units are good. Things to manage working units are bad.” — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
Airbnb's genius was moving into cities and recognizing that millennials would want to go and maybe spend a vacation or visit some… — Brad Stone Friends Copy Share Image
“Unlike traditional retailers, Amazon returned few unsold books, often less than 5 percent. The big book chains regularly returned 40 percent of… — Brad Stone Big book Copy Share Image
“Do I need to go down and get the certificate that says I’m CEO of the company to get you to stop… — Brad Stone Business Copy Share Image
“Bezos dismissed those objections and insisted that to succeed in books as Apple had in music, Amazon needed to control the entire… — Brad Stone Books Copy Share Image
“have realized about myself that I’m very motivated by people counting on me,” he answered. “I like to be counted on.”14” — Brad Stone Motivation Copy Share Image
“That summer, Harrison Miller and Bezos butted heads in front of the board of directors over the size of the bet on… — Brad Stone Board of directors Copy Share Image
Uber's issue, I think the biggest one is driverless cars. That could be a complete reset to the business. — Brad Stone Business Copy Share Image
“We believe that a fundamental measure of our success will be the shareholder value we create over the long term. This value… — Brad Stone Investing 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 Internet Copy Share Image
