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The Everything Store

By Floris WolswijkPublished Edited 1 min read
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Jeff Bezos isn’t a really nice guy. Really driven. But also done lots of side-projects that failed big. Was good in attracting money and winning in the end. Played a hard bargain and wouldn’t be the person I would want to do business with I think.

Summary: good book of history of Amazon.

Jeff Bezos isn’t a really nice guy. Really driven. But also done lots of side-projects that failed big. Was good in attracting money and winning in the end. Played a hard bargain and wouldn’t be the person I would want to do business with I think.

Always had a big vision. That enabled him to move forward.

An external synopsis appended to these notes traces Amazon’s expansion from mailed books into Kindle and cloud computing, and describes the demanding culture created under Bezos. Its original source was not recorded.