#71 Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters

Bezos broke all the rules when he built Amazon. In doing so, he carved out a unique way of looking at the world. at companies and at tech in general. And nowhere is Bezos' philosophy of business, technology, and leadership. Better articulated than in his annual shareholder letters.

Which he has written every year since the company's IPO in nineteen ninety seven. To read Bezos shareholder letters is to get a crash course In running a high growth Internet business. From someone who mastered it.

Before any of the playbooks were written. Okay, so that is an excerpt from the CB Insights newsletter. And this week so as you uh if you're regular listeners to this podcast, you know that every week I normally read a biography or an autobiography of an entrepreneur and then I pull out uh ideas that you can use in your life and work from there. This week's gonna be different. Um at the same time I was reading the book The Tao of Capital, which I covered on last week's podcast, I was also reading this this CB Insights uh newsletter.

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