The Everything Store

“you know of course david and i read both of bradstone's excellent books”

“well speaking of books we have a big thank you that we owe to Brad Stone and the everything store Brad is just the best we've done episodes with Brad in the past the everything store is the canonical history of the first 20 years of Amazon”

“like there's this amazing quote from eric schmidt in the everything store this is so good eric schmidt of course he's a former ceo of google he's like the book guys figured out technology and then ran circles”

“so he's the senior executive editor for the global technology at bloomberg but he's also for our purposes author of amazon unbound another book called the upstarts about uber and airbnb and the everything store the original biography of jeff bezos and tail of that amazing company”

“everything in store was really a huge book for me because it just told me the story of retail in the 21st century about how the everything store was actually a revolutionary concept in terms of utilizing zero marginal cost businesses for amazon how it would work on the internet”

“and actually i do want to say people i read the brad stones book on amazon and one of the interesting things about bezos is he always assumed that it wouldn't work and then said how could we make it work given these conditions”

“in brad stone's book the everything story jeff bezos originally wanted to call his name cadabra as in abracadabra you know just how magical shopping was one click boom you get something bezos's lawyer convinced him the name sounded too similar to cadaver”

“go to your local bookstore even better amazon unbound space while you're at it get the collection get the triple energy get the upstarts get the everything stored as an entrepreneur read these because there's so many lessons in them”

“You if you want to read the book you should the everything store is quite good 2013 the actual history of Amazon but what we often find out is that being extraordinarily good at one thing often doesn't make you a particularly good at everything and may in fact be inverse in terms of your ability to be a good”

“yeah it's funny I read Bezos is um or the biography the I forget what the the everything store that's so good”

“And I'm going to quote from The Everything Store here to talk about this first big Amazon holiday season. Infernally, some employees stayed at the Golden Nugget in Reno.”

“And I'm going to quote here from the Everything Store to talk about how Jeff actually refers like speaks directly to the people who work for him. Bezos was prone to melodramatic temper tantrums that some Amazon employees called privately nutters.”

“I'm going to read a passage from the everything story that gives a little bit of context for that.”

“I'm going to read a quote from the book The Everything Store about this uh this early study.”

“And I'm going to read a quote now from the book, The Everything Store. There's always one of these for Bezos, for Zuckerberg, for [ __ ] uh um Gates.”

“i believe the quote from eric schmidt in the everything store was the book guys finally got technology”

“it's the backbone of the history we're gonna tell here we first got turned on to it going back and rereading the everything store and finding out that it was one of bezos's favorite books”

“This is a great line in this book of Jeff Bezos that I read. It's in the Everything Store, where it says that, you know, if you're good, Jeff will jump on your back and kind of ride you into the ground.”

“the code name for what turns into Amazon inside the hedge fund was called the everything store like that is why the biography by Brad Stone is called the everything store”

“for the founders, it was The Everything Store by Brad Stone, which I think I've talked to you about before. I read that book over 20 times.”

“The book that I read, I mean I must have been 16 or 17 times all the way through, was The Everything Store by Brad Stone. And as a little actually as it's like a little scary. My friends told me never to admit this, but whatever.”

“well so i tell the story of of amazon prime in the first book the everything store and then in this book i talk about prime video and some of the other add-on prime services”

“basically if you look at every decision amazon make if you go back through the book um the everything store every decision he makes is will this enhance the customer experience rather than like profit margin”

“this is the hard part and i talked about this with brad stone in his book about jeff bezos”