“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
“Andy Grove, the longtime CEO of Intel, was known to be so harsh and intimidating that a subordinate once fainted during a… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Two other technology icons, Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison, were adopted, and the experience is thought by some to have given each… — Brad Stone Motivation Copy Share Image
“resonance. “We had a key decision to make,” he says. “Was distribution a commodity or was it a core competency?” — Brad Stone Choice Copy Share Image
I think Facebook has a lot of work to do to make sure people are seeing meaningful things and not garbage. — Brad Stone Facebook 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
“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
“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
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 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 Retailers 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
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 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
“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
“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
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
“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 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 Copy Share Image
“Chesky was moving slowly, but at the same time, he was frustrated that his imagined success wasn’t arriving quickly enough. “Every day… — Brad Stone Customer 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… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“The electronics effort faced even greater challenges. To launch that category, David Risher tapped a Dartmouth alum named Chris Payne who had… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“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 Aha moment Copy Share Image
“By that time, Bezos and his executives had devoured and raptly discussed another book that would significantly affect the company’s strategy: The… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“One early challenge was that the book distributors required retailers to order ten books at a time. Amazon didn’t yet have that… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“He says Bezos takes a red pen to press releases, product descriptions, speeches, and shareholder letters, crossing out anything that does not… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“When New York passed its Internet sales-tax law, Amazon’s sales in New York State dropped 10 percent over the next quarter, according… — Brad Stone Internet Copy Share Image
For decades, technology entrepreneurship has been revered, and people like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk were heroes. — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Amazon isn’t happening to the book business,” he likes to say to authors and journalists. “The future is happening to the book… — Brad Stone Book Copy Share Image
Executives are rarely comfortable speaking on the record, particularly in secretive Silicon Valley companies. — 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 Internet Copy Share Image
“Eric and Susan Benson didn't come to Amazon alone every day - they brought their dog Rufus, a Welsh corgi.” — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
I spend a little bit of time exploring why the companies that were doing smartphone ride-hailing before Uber, why they failed. — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
“Bezos even wondered aloud whether Amazon could hire college students on every block in Manhattan and get them to store popular products… — Brad Stone 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“While he was charming and capable of great humor in public, in private, Bezos could bite an employee’s head right off.” — Brad Stone Humor Copy Share Image
“Communication is a sign of dysfunction. It means people aren’t working together in a close, organic way. We should be trying to… — Brad Stone Communication Copy Share Image
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“We don't make money when we sell things. We make money when we help customers make purchase decisions.” — Brad Stone Money 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 Copy Share Image
