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Nine Essential Videos

01 — Long-form

Lex Fridman Podcast #405

His first-ever long-form conversation. Covers Day 1 mentality, decision-making, invention, and why compromise is a terrible way to run a business. Roughly two hours.

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02 — Long-form

Economic Club of Washington D.C. with David Rubenstein (2018)

The interview where he says his best decisions were made with heart and intuition. Covers customer obsession, his daily routine, Blue Origin, and making only three good decisions a day.

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03 — Classic

CNBC 1999 Interview

A time capsule where the interviewer aggressively challenges Amazon's business model and Bezos calmly dismantles every objection with emotional intelligence and conviction.

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04 — Classic

60 Minutes "Nerd of the Amazon" (1999)

Bob Simon tours Amazon's scrappy early headquarters next to a pawn shop. Pure startup energy from the era when Amazon was just a bookseller.

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05 — Speech

Princeton Commencement Speech (2010)

"We are our choices." A personal, moving talk about the difference between gifts and choices, and how he decided to leave Wall Street to start Amazon.

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06 — Short clip

Regret Minimization Framework

The famous short clip where he explains imagining himself at 80 and asking which path he'd regret not taking. One of the most shared business clips on the internet.

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07 — Conference

re:MARS Fireside Chat (2019)

Bezos on AI, robotics, and why machine learning is a "horizontal enabling layer" that will improve every institution on earth.

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08 — Collection

Amazon's 14 Leadership Principles via Jeff Bezos

A curated video walkthrough of Amazon's leadership principles with Bezos's own commentary on each one.

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09 — Conference

Stanford Entrepreneurship Conference (2005)

Bezos speaks at Stanford GSB's entrepreneurship conference on what it takes to build a company from scratch. Covers the early days of Amazon, the mindset required to bet on yourself, and why missionaries build better companies than mercenaries.

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