3 Powerful Startup Lessons I Learned From Jeff Bezos
In 2013, I had a conversation with a family friend at a dinner party.
At the time, he was a coding undergraduate, with the lofty aspiration of working at Google.
Aware of their notoriously difficult hiring process, I asked him, “Is there anywhere you’d like to work for, if you can’t get into Google? From what I hear it’s pretty competitive”.
Without skipping a beat, he responded, “The other company I’d love to work for is Amazon.”
I laughed in disbelief.
Back in 2013, Amazon didn’t seem like anything special — certainly not a tech giant rivaling the likes of Google, Facebook, or Apple.
But in hindsight, I was completely wrong about Amazon. Fortunately, he ended up landing his dream job at Google, but Amazon was an impressive “Plan B”.
Over the past ten years, they’ve sky-rocketed to the top — accounting for $4 in every $10 eCommerce dollars in the US. Just take a look at their share price:
And as the retail world continues to make the shift online, Amazon continues to dominate.
