Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2021-12-18
Books mentioned on Part One: Jeff Bezos and the Birth of Amazon
Robert is joined by Jake Hanrahan to discuss Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos. Footnotes: https://www.
Robert Evans discussed The Everything Store by Brad Stone and One Click by Richard L. Brandt.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Everything Store
The Everything Store by Brad Stone is a non-fiction book that chronicles the first twenty years of Amazon and the leadership of Jeff Bezos.
Discussed“I'm going to read a passage from the everything story that gives a little bit of context for that.”
Where to get it
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One Click
Discussed“From the book One Click, quote, "The setup came with a stack of manuals, but no one at the school knew how to use it. Jeff and a couple of other students stayed after class to go through the manuals and figure out how to program it, but that novelty only lasted about a week."”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Hobbit
“He was not particularly gifted in leadership according to his teachers, but he moved confidently among his peers and articulately extolled the virtues of the novel he was reading at the time, J.R.R. Tolken's The Hobbit.”