The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

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There are two kinds of retailers: there are those folks who work to figure how to charge more, and there are companies that work to figure how to charge less, and we are going to be the second, full-stop,”

Hersh, Kenneth (April 20, 2018). "Forum on Leadership: Conversation with Jeff Bezos". Bush Center. Archived from the original on January 22, 2019 . Retrieved April 22, 2018. When both teams met for the first time, Bezos made a big show of keeping one chair open at the conference-room table, “for the customer,” he explained. Needleman, Sarah E. (January 29, 2015). "Twitch's Viewers Reach 100 Million a Month". WSJ . Retrieved February 20, 2019. Bezos never despaired over the mass exodus. One of his gifts, his colleagues said, was being able to drive and motivate his employees without getting overly attached to them personally.Davenport, Christian (2018). The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos. PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1610398299. The definitive story of the largest and most influential company in the world and the man whose drive and determination changed business forever. But one common thread I have been able to tease out from readings about the colossally successful is that all of them are obsessive about at least one of the following aspects:

The deal marked the end of the four-generation reign over The Post Co. by the Graham family, which included Donald E. Graham, the company’s chairman and chief executive, and his niece, Post publisher Katharine Graham. Matthews, Dylan (August 8, 2013). "Jeff Bezos is buying The Washington Post. Here's what you need to know about the sale". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on March 11, 2018 . Retrieved March 11, 2018. A new product has to be presented in the form of a press release. The goal of this is to frame the product initiative in a way a customer might hear about it the first time.Peterson-Withorn, Chase. "The Full List of Every American Billionaire 2016". Forbes. Archived from the original on March 8, 2018 . Retrieved March 8, 2018.

Such founders are on a mission to "help" customers who are currently not getting what they deserve. They truly believe that their mission is to wage war for the consumers, to make things easy for them, and make money in the process. Jeff Bezos belongs to this category. The retailer offers, appliances, clothing, groceries, toiletries, and even cloud computing services. In the early days, Bezos was said to be a demanding boss.Bezos showed an early interest in how things work, turning his parents’ garage into a laboratory and rigging electrical contraptions around his house as a child. He moved to Miami with his family as a teenager, where he developed a love for computers and graduated valedictorian of his high school. It was during high school that he started his first business, the Dream Institute, an educational summer camp for fourth, fifth and sixth graders.