#180 Jeff Bezos (Invention of a Global Empire)

Number one. His genius was not in inventing. Rather it was in inventing a system of invention. Dozens of researchers and engineers and tinkers labored beneath Edison in a carefully constructed hierarchy organization that he founded in And oversaw.

Number two. It has always seemed strange to me. The things that we admire in men. Kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling. are the complements of failure in our system.

And those traits that we detest. Sharpness, greed. Meanness. Egotism. And self interest.

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