The “lost” Jeff Bezos 1997 interview just about a year after starting Amazon.

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  • Опубликовано: 20 ноя 2024

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  • @NameSpaceVoid
    @NameSpaceVoid 5 лет назад +59

    It's little wonder why Bezos was so successful after listening to him for two minutes. Even in '95 he understands the impact internet and computer technology will have on commerce and uses statistical data to start growing a business. People act like success is some kind of conspiracy, when in reality it is those who are intelligent and driven who understand both society, and, where it is heading, who will come out on top.

    • @califcamper
      @califcamper Год назад

      And money... intelligence and money or sadly, money then intelligence

  • @gabay123vip
    @gabay123vip 5 лет назад +70

    Wow. He talks about internet commerce like he's a time traveler

    • @Blueberryminty
      @Blueberryminty 2 года назад

      it's from 1997 allready, it's the middle of the bubble, many people those days were talking like him, he doesn't sound like a visionary to me. Even I as a young kid in 1994 could see where the internet was going when I first heard about the world wide web and the possibilities it opened up toward the greater public. It really wasn't far fetched, especially if you have the data that showed it like he had as someone who was constantly working with financial economic figures.
      What made him successful was that he walks over certain things like it's nothing were others would have stopped due to moral dilemma's. he is vicious and that makes his company a success.

    • @dhomg5875
      @dhomg5875 2 месяца назад

      i was thinking the same. "infant" carries the implication that it WILL grow up and it WILL mature.

    • @dhomg5875
      @dhomg5875 2 месяца назад

      "day1", "late twentieth century", he changed "we're going to find out" to "i think" . hard to deprogram your brain to talk as if you dont already know what has happened

  • @alexdmd
    @alexdmd 5 лет назад +44

    "Attention is the scarcest commodity of the late 20th century"

    • @gafisher001
      @gafisher001 5 лет назад +4

      Today it's become almost mythical, like Phlogiston and Vibranium.

    • @RickD604
      @RickD604 3 года назад +1

      What a line!

  • @Dan-wi7bo
    @Dan-wi7bo 5 лет назад +43

    That is how a visionary thinks. I was an early customer and I remember i was amazed how great was to find almost any book i was looking for without having to go through the bookstores. Amazon was really adding a lot of value, that is definitely the key for a successful business. He had that clear then and he has that clear now.

    • @getthefffffoffme
      @getthefffffoffme 5 лет назад +1

      I prefer "farseeing" - and that does not apply to a monopolist - so like Jobs a "visionary"

    • @dhomg5875
      @dhomg5875 2 месяца назад

      he was marketing "attention" as he described it.

  • @MrValue
    @MrValue 5 лет назад +17

    In 1997 my uncle, who had worked for over 40 years at Sears, told me to invest in Amazon. I sure wish I had acted on his advice.

  • @playit2524
    @playit2524 5 лет назад +28

    Oh boy! He knew his stats.

  • @jennalee5967
    @jennalee5967 5 лет назад +12

    That little 5'7 guy knew what he was doing in e-commerce back when even dial-up internet was still a luxury to have

  • @frodiesel0
    @frodiesel0 5 лет назад +6

    I'm the guy honking the horn in the background. Beep beep attention and adding value, two successful business keystones, the timelessness of this video is engaging.

  • @Darwinq84
    @Darwinq84 5 лет назад +27

    The lady and guy who walked passed him in the background paid zero attention to the man who would go on and become the richest person in the world 20 years later. Makes me wonder who I come across with these days lol

    • @rafaelgomez9070
      @rafaelgomez9070 5 лет назад +2

      i was thinking that too LOL

    • @krismeister4172
      @krismeister4172 4 года назад +2

      Hi, Its you 20 years in the future. You turned out pretty normal, like most of us.

    • @pahpoesproductions
      @pahpoesproductions 10 месяцев назад

      I thought about that as well

  • @beattheplatforn2537
    @beattheplatforn2537 4 года назад +5

    Bezos mentioned amazon's catalog includes 1m out of print books. The effort to build a universal selection finally paid off

  • @funnyavi
    @funnyavi 5 лет назад +14

    This video should end with "And then he made $100,000,000" with the Curb Your Enthusiasm music playing.

  • @smackymcproductions4443
    @smackymcproductions4443 Год назад +1

    he's veryy happy to answer those questions. It's like asking an idealist what he wants to go to space with and how much he'd like to spend.

  • @KeyserTheRedBeard
    @KeyserTheRedBeard 3 года назад +2

    fascinating video Brian Roemmele. I smashed that thumbs up on your video. Continue to keep up the awesome work.

  • @gafisher001
    @gafisher001 5 лет назад +3

    Excellent glimpse behind the curtain; it's pretty clear why Amazon succeeded while so many other internet businesses fizzled.

  • @daveellis5100
    @daveellis5100 3 года назад +2

    Recorded horizontally😀👍

  • @MarkConnely
    @MarkConnely 3 года назад +1

    He's so smart and clear-sighted. Really an admirable fellow. He's had great success, and I hope he is amazingly happy. :)

  • @smackymcproductions4443
    @smackymcproductions4443 Год назад

    "no ads----it expands"--jef

  • @maxm3515
    @maxm3515 5 лет назад +5

    If you work in analytics / statistics you will always know what the gap in business is in the future.

  • @arnolder
    @arnolder 5 лет назад +6

    5:52 this digital rain is 2 years earlier than Matrix.

  • @DJ-Illuminate
    @DJ-Illuminate Год назад

    I was doing web design in 1991. I believe this was the same year that Bill GAtes said the internet would never amount to anything. I had that on my wall at work for a long time as a joke. He was a little late to the game but amazing. I just remember he had a PHP snippet that would remember your name when you came back to the site. My next door cubicle worker just thought that was amazing. I was still at the time trying to get access to the server because as a designer I had to give the files to the server company to update and they would FTP them up. I still do web design but use Joomla and Wordpress and visual editor addons. WebFlow is cool. Yes, I was at work the day the Internet went public. All of the engineers quit on the same day at UW-Madison. I remember asking where everyone went. Our server was the one that John Carmack uploaded Castle Wolfenstein to. I think we had five servers in the entire world at the time. I argued with so many people that the web was a big thing and that video would go through the internet and on and on.

  • @IdrisBusari
    @IdrisBusari 5 лет назад +2

    Identify value! #Genius!

  • @quinnjim
    @quinnjim 4 года назад +1

    6:20. Possiable??

  • @smackymcproductions4443
    @smackymcproductions4443 Год назад

    it's important to fill a size 13" neck shirt

  • @geospatialindex
    @geospatialindex 3 года назад

    So what he’s just done is apply the Star Principle. This is to find a fast growing market and set up a business to dominate it. Amazon is the internet’s quintessential Star Principle business

  • @toddl5541
    @toddl5541 5 лет назад +2

    this is great

  • @ghostng8907
    @ghostng8907 3 года назад

    Is he related to Reince Priebus?

  • @smackymcproductions4443
    @smackymcproductions4443 Год назад

    He said, :dodoo"

  • @timburr4453
    @timburr4453 5 месяцев назад

    Gates and Buffett embraced who they are...Bezos seems to be trying on a new persona and doesn't want anyone to remember him as a nerd (recently he dressed as a cowboy for some kind of photo spread) it's kinda sad with all that $ and he still was ashamed of being a nerd

  • @sharonwillis5072
    @sharonwillis5072 5 лет назад +2

    That is not how you spell possible at the end. Is it?

  • @erwinrnasution
    @erwinrnasution Год назад

    that this is
    day one is the very beginning of this
    is the Kittyhawk stage of electronic
    commerce...
    fast forward today
    day one of AI, LLM, NLP what a great time to be alive

  • @RickD604
    @RickD604 3 года назад

    Amazing!

  • @vijitmathur6949
    @vijitmathur6949 4 года назад

    How u made it

  • @djough1
    @djough1 5 лет назад +1

    possiable? Maybee?

  • @rodpitti
    @rodpitti 2 года назад

    Big part of Bezos success relies from #CDNOW and its WebOps, clients, networks and platform; #Amazon would not be what it is today without CDNOW, period.

  • @LeMonke3
    @LeMonke3 4 года назад

    He started Amazon in 1994, not 1996. This interview occured three years after he founded Amazon.

    • @mrhowell6842
      @mrhowell6842 3 года назад +2

      He founded Cababra in 1994. Amazon wasn’t until 1996.

  • @MusicVideosPCH
    @MusicVideosPCH 5 лет назад

    wow!

  • @alexanderlynch7528
    @alexanderlynch7528 5 лет назад

    I'd rather youtube some Bob Dylan Rolling Thunder Revue footy

  • @pahpoesproductions
    @pahpoesproductions 10 месяцев назад

    Did you ever think that you would be this rich?

  • @KevinDixon
    @KevinDixon 3 года назад

    Know I know why.

  • @Gonzo850
    @Gonzo850 5 лет назад

    Haha 3:44 he says doodoo jk good video!

  • @pouyaparsa188
    @pouyaparsa188 4 года назад

    do do

  • @Anonymous-wk9zg
    @Anonymous-wk9zg 3 года назад

    Jeff is a bid of a weirdo I don’t care what anyone says.
    Also, he was in the right place at the right time is was a BIG reason why he became so successful.

  • @vijitmathur6949
    @vijitmathur6949 4 года назад

    Please tell me secret about Jeff bezos

  • @smackymcproductions4443
    @smackymcproductions4443 Год назад

    BAKED. CCP