Jeff Bezos — Day 1 Obsessive
Founder & CEO
Quit a cushy hedge-fund job to sell books from a garage — relentless long-term visionary.
- Left a hedge fund to sell books
- Started in a rented garage
Companies / The Platform Era
Amazon
The Platform Era · 2010s — one of the 100 companies on the MogulSpin reels.
The legends
Andy Jassy — Built the Cloud
Jeff Wilke — Fulfillment Mastermind
Werner Vogels — Everything Fails All the Time
Steve Kessel — Built the Kindle
Also on the roster
Rick Dalzell · Diego Piacentini · Jeff Blackburn · Charlie Bell · James Hamilton · Dave Limp · Brian Valentine · Tom Szkutak · Brian Olsavsky · Tom Alberg / Madrona · Kleiner Perkins (John Doerr)
When Amazon lands on your reels, these are the people you draft — Visionary, Operator, Builder, Financier, one irreversible lock at a time. How few companies in the world will be worth more than yours?
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