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Episode 388 #388: Jeff Bezos’s Shareholder Letters!
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Episode 388: #388: Jeff Bezos’s Shareholder Letters!

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Episode 388

#388: Jeff Bezos’s Shareholder Letters!

David Senra is the host of Founders, where he studies history's greatest entrepreneurs. This is what he learned from reading Jeff Bezos’s shareholder letters.

"To read Jeff Bezos’s 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." That is the best description of Bezos's letters I have ever read. I just finished rereading these letters for the 4th or 5th time. With clear thinking and ferocious intelligence, Bezos provides a masterclass in building a customer-obsessed, enduring franchise. With relentless repetition Bezos teaches us about the importance of invention, risk-taking, wandering, differentiation, technology, judgement, high-standards, customer obsession, long-term orientation, and why value trumps everything.

Read the letters on Amazon's website here.

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#388: Jeff Bezos’s Shareholder Letters!

Introduction

This is the fourth or the fifth time that I've read through all of Jeff Bezos's shareholder letters. I think it's something I should do every year and then make a new episode every year because I think they're so important.

In fact, the best description of these letters I've ever read was this description. It says, "to read Jeff Bezos’s 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."

So he titles, Jeff titles every single shareholder letter. We want to start right beginning in 1997, he titles this: "It's all about the long-term." This is the most important shareholder letter. And you can see this because Jeff attaches it to every single subsequent shareholder letter all the way up till the end.

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