Jeff Bezos In 1999 On Amazon's Plans Before The Dotcom Crash

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Jeff Bezos In 1999 On Amazon's Plans Before The Dotcom Crash

[sanjidnet]

Legend has it Jeff is still maintaining eye contact with the interviewer

[icedcoldkilla]

Employee: Am I fired?

Jeff: No, you're promoted to customer.

[wolfgangkeyser]

Jeff Bezos's mother: "OMG, he is about to say his first words!"

10 month old Jeff: "The key is customer service"

[Bdhacker]

Interviewer: So Jeff, how did you meet your first wife?

Jeff: *She was my first customer*

[kmd]

If another guy explains his business plan with that kind of eye contact and belief, we better go buy some of his stocks.

[caninho]

How are you jeff?
- it doesnt matter how i feel. but the question is: how does the customer feel?

[icedcoldkilla]

Interviewer: youre losing hair jeff

Jeff: i gave it to my customers

[navjotrehal]

The way he answered all the questions is just amazing. Every word on point.

[alisinarahimian]

He looks like a mix of Kevin Spacey and Nicholas Cage

[redrum]

Seems like a nice guy, hope his book company works out for

[ryanking]

Jeffs Wife: Honey i just got in an accident, its bad.

Jeff: Is the customer ok?

[RusuSilva]

It's sad how difficult things have become in the present generation. I was wondering how to utilise some money I had. I used some of it for e-commerce business, but that sank. I'm thinking of how to use what's left to invest, but I don't really know which way to go.

[PiyushBhakat]

Jeff's wife: "He's probably thinking about other girls"
Jeff: *The key is customer service*

[alexanderblanco]

interviewer: you cant just disrupt every industry
jeff bezos: hold my shminternet

[ARon]

I bought a $300 item off amazon that didnt offer returns. I called to complain I didnt like the item and they just told me to keep it and gave me a full refund. I was amazed.

[shayneoneill]

The interesting thing about amazon is at this point people still percieved them as a small online book store. But 3000 employees and a million+ sq feet of distro centers, in *1999* is huge, for the time.

[darev]

One of Jeff's eyeballs is looking at his customers. The other is looking for new customers.

[icedcoldkilla]

Interviewer: you havent blinked.

Jeff: gotta keep an eye out for customers.

[joshuajethro]

There is absolutely NO GOOD REASON to have music over an interview.

[larslover]

Love him or hate him: a heck of a businessman.