THE VIDEO SHELF · amazon business philosophy
Video from Jeff Bezos about Amazon and Zappos
A short 2009 video of Jeff Bezos talking about Amazon and Zappos. He discusses customer focus, invention and long-term thinking.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters like his candid, authentic delivery and the lessons on customer obsession and thinking long term.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- 07272009july
- Topic
- amazon business philosophy
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2011–2018
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
> Bezos looked awkward and nervous Sounds about like every time I've heard him speak. He probably let out some really loud laughs too. Remember his welcome video to Zappos employees? It was a paper based presentation (giant sheets!) where among other things he explained …
jonknee on Hacker News · 2011-09
In Amazon Unveils $199 Kindle Fire TabletI always remember Jeff Bezos' 3 lessons: obsess over customers, invent, think long term. [VIDEO] I love the way he unfolds his ideas simply and disrupts markets, one at a time.
gabaix on Hacker News · 2011-11
In Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.