Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos
Jeffrey Preston "Jeff" Bezosis an American technology entrepreneur and investor. He has played a role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, an online merchant of books and later of a wide variety of products and services, most recently video streaming. Amazon.com became the largest retailer on the World Wide Web and a model for Internet sales...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth12 January 1964
CityAlbuquerque, NM
CountryUnited States of America
Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.
You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.
What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.
Percentage margins are not one of the things we are seeking to optimize. It’s the absolute dollar free cash flow per share that you want to maximize, and if you can do that by lowering margins, we would do that. So if you could take the free cash flow, that’s something that investors can spend. Investors can’t spend percentage margins.
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Not the outcome any of us wanted.
Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.
If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.
If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.
People don't want gadgets, they want services.
The earth's most customer-centric company is figuring out what the customer wants and how to give it to them, ... By offering a universal selection of products, we can do something online that you could never do in the physical world.
We try to be a pure investment and a long-term decision making company. No company cares more about profitability than Amazon.com. But I also want to make the most of our opportunity and we would hate to be short-sighted about that,
I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.
perhaps the most expensive thing we've done since free Super Saver shipping.