Is Jeff Bezos the Best Investor of All Time?

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

October 9, 2022

Duration

4m

Channel

Acquired

Watch on YouTube

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Listen to the full Amazon Web Services episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APvj15_YCqk

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Ben Gilbert

  host

  Co-host of Acquired, focused on long-form business and technology company analysis.

• David Rosenthal

  host

  Co-host of Acquired, focused on long-form business and technology company analysis.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Acquired, featuring Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal, Is Jeff Bezos the Best Investor of All Time? explores bezos’s customer obsession and asymmetric bets explain Amazon’s outperformance Amazon’s product strategy is framed as relentlessly customer-use-case driven—building what startups and IT managers actually need, even if it seems “boring.”

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