Q: How much should I worry about what my competitors are doing?
Here are a few of my favorite quotes from Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, and Paul Graham on why companies shouldn't focus on their competitors.
Bezos also sums it up perfectly in the video clip below.
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Mike McGuinesstwitter.comQ: How much should I worry about what my competitors are doing? Here are a few of my favorite quotes from Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, and Paul Graham on why companies shouldn't focus on their competitors. Bezos also sums it up perfectly in the video clip below. “If… Show more
You should compete against what someone else could be doing, not just what you can see people doing.”
Lenny Rachitsky • Business Building - A collection on Sublime
My guess is that Amazon’s success is a byproduct, a side-effect of a process driven, flexible, in-the-moment way of being. In the famous 1997 letter to shareholders, which lays out Amazon’s philosophy, Bezos says that their process is simple: a “relentless focus on customers.” This is not a goal to be strived for, worked towards, achieved, and the
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“At both Viaweb and YC, every minute I spent thinking about competitors was, in retrospect, a minute wasted... It's exceptionally rare for startups to be killed by competitors — so rare that you can almost discount the possibility... Inexperienced founders usually give competitors more credit than they deserve. Whether you succeed depends far more
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