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Introduction
Bezos broke all the rules when he built Amazon. In doing so, he carved out a unique way of looking at the world, at companies and at tech in general. And nowhere is Bezos philosophy of business, technology, and leadership better articulated than in his annual shareholder letters, which he has written every year since the company's IPO in 1997. To read Bezos shareholder letters is to get a crash course in running a high-growth Internet business from someone who mastered it before any of the playbooks were written.
Okay. So that is an excerpt from the CB Insights newsletter. And this week, as you -- if you're regulars to this podcast, you know that every week, I normally read a biography or an autobiography of an entrepreneur, and then I pull out ideas that you can use in your life and work from there. This week is going to be different. At the same time, I was reading the book, The Dao of Capital, which I covered on last week’s podcast, I was also reading this CB Insights newsletter. So I spent last week reading every single shareholder letter.