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Amazon faced a similar challenge when they decided to sell used books. A radical idea? Certainly. Did it upset the publishers who sold them books? Absolutely. But it was an idea that worked for consumers, and paved the way for Amazon to create a multibillion-dollar third-party seller business.
John Rossman • The Amazon Way: 14 Leadership Principles Behind the World's Most Disruptive Company
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Larry and Sergey invented something called 20 percent time. The idea is that if the employees, especially the engineers, are interested in something, they can spend 20 percent of their time on whatever they’re interested in.
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ROBERT F. SMITH Founder and CEO, Vista Equity Partners; Philanthropist