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The Internet, though, is a world of abundance, and there is a new power that matters: the ability to make sense of that abundance, to index it, to find needles in the proverbial haystack. And that power is held by Google. Thus, while the audiences advertisers crave are now hopelessly fractured amongst an effectively infinite number of publishers, t... See more

Stratechery • Amazon Cuts Affiliate Marketing, Google Versus French Publishers, Streaming Services and Movies

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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Amazon is the worst kind of company to compete against because they don’t mind burning money to grab market share.

Craig Mod • Offscreen Magazine Interview

I never chatted with Bezos about this, so I don't know if it was an explicit strategy on his part, but one of his great strengths as a communicator was the ability to encode the most important strategies for Amazon in very concise and memorable forms.

Take one example "Day 1." I don't know when he first said this to the company, but it was repeated

Remains of the Day • Compress to Impress

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different levels in McDonough,” he says. “We were struggling to recruit the right leaders, and struggling to get enough people to work there.”

Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

The impulse to continually ring-fence more assets under the control of a corporate brand name is powerfully felt

Brett Scott • Heretic's Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money

When you describe the culture and values and character of a company, not even through like the internal workings but in the way that the product experience feels when you use it, it’s almost indistinguishable from the founder’s personality. And very rarely does a company, even when it goes through multiple CEOs significantly deviate from that that ... See more

Ben Gilbert • The Uber - Didi Chuxing Merger with Brad Stone, author of The Upstarts & The Everything Store | Acquired Podcast

As part of his ongoing quest for a better allocation of his own time, he decreed that he would no longer have one-on-one meetings with his subordinates. These meetings tended to be filled with trivial updates and political distractions, rather than problem solving and brainstorming.