Jeff Bezos 1997 Interview 

Founder of google would be better flex I think..

@@myself3209 hell no lol

@@myself3209 Google had two founders tho

@@myself3209 the internet is cooler

The FOUNDER OF SPACE X WOULD BE MUCH BETTER FLEX

IncorporatedOps he's a piece of shit in a suit and tie

Let's bully him

Dutch Schultz "Let me bully the economy at taxpayer expense while some of them ironically defend my honor" - Jeff Bezos

@@maxx87880 no shit sherlock

He's not rich anymore! He is wealthy ..

In 1997 people were treating e-commerce like vaporware. Only those willing to invest in and trust the numbers they saw made it out.

Seriously... Hindsight is 2020

No, around that time there were several book stores already selling on the net. It's Bezos' intensity and intelligence that made him what he is today. Their customer service and shipping speed was second to none. (And still is today). And for that they had to build an entire logistics chain around the world, beating stores and logistics companies at their own games. And he was also at the forefront of several other trends that followed.

@@zoli11 only several? Out of millions and millions of people? Sounds like people thought it was vaporware like BTC

You do realize all great businesses are based on basic supply and demand. He’s the richest man in the world because he literally pioneered an industry

Well he kinda already has it, him and Elon. For the rest of us our names will never be remembered and if we do get “immortality” in the way u mean I think it won’t be for another several hundred years sadly

@@wastedtalent1625 Being insanely rich doesn't mean you'll be remembered.

TEUTOWOLF kinda does, especially as the ceo of a revolutionary company

@@1reptile121 "Revolutionary" in our times maybe, ultimately meaningless. The internet and free market capitalism won't last forever.

TEUTOWOLF but we still look back at revolutionary things in the past that are considered trivial today and the people who came up with those things, even from societies whose structures we do not share. So yes I do think he will be remembered for a time to come.

Are you serious or you being sarcastic???

but he only sells books and a dozen other things i'd surely consider if there are more products and services

So true. So fucking true. Anyone pushing tech, that's all you'll find. They're just out for money. I'd be okay with this if it were open and merit based, Instead of the version we have which is full of gatekeepers. Wise senior software engineers have told me this , almost everything you see in tech is faked for the more stupid user base. Also, there's a ton of nepotism in tech, its not even about skill. Just who you know. Based on who people wanna circle jerk the most

@Alejandro Rivero Jr. I like how the "fun at parties" cope template works so well. It's a templated response. It's just funny to me because on the modern internet, none of us share locales. It's so baseless, yet so effective. Hope marketing gave whoever came up eith that template a raise. I could automate cope comments and these shills would be out of a job 😂😂😂😂

@@EbonyGreathouse good question

Exactly! Companies like Blockbuster or Sears will never be overtaken by those Internet fads

Lol

Yeah. And WTF are touchscreen phones... FTW Flip phones!!

Yeah. This web thing is doubtful

They should stick newspaper and radio as a way to advertise and sell books, it’s really hard to change people’s perception

To be fair, that was NOT A SMALL BUSINESS. Amazon in 1997 was already gigantic in terms of a single book store (it was practically a super mega store of books from the very start) so yeah it's definitely not the Amazon of today but by no means it was ever small.

Without an army of mistreated wage-slave workers nothing would have worked for Bezos.

@MassEffectGER his $15 an hour workers who make double the federal minimum wage? Those slaves??

@@theendurance $15 an hour from a man who makes billions a day and had his highest ever day of earnings during a pandemic where millions have lost their jobs and homes, hm....

Glomo you’re so fucking stupid, $15 an hour to work in a warehouse is the minimum wage for warehouses in California and California has a $12 or maybe $13(not sure if it went up) minimum wage for any job. You think Amazon became as big as it is without taking advantage of underpaid workers and setting overly ambitious goals for the workers, who if they don’t meet the goals, are fired and replaced like they are worth nothing. If Amazon wanted to have high standards and pay their workers well I’d be all behind Bezos but that isn’t the case. Just like all huge corporations, they try to get as much work out of you for as little as possible.

Yes you are right that's a great achievement the journey of a thousand miles starts with a step, his wealth did not just come a day he worked for it.

@Hugo louis that's nice but nothing good comes easily like Richard Clinton said a journey of a thousand miles starts with a step, it needs hard work.

@@elenabaldo2319 👍👍👍

@Hugo louis what have you invented to be great like Jeff bezos is not all about saying it bro is all about working for it.

@Hugo louis Is a great idea to invest in cryptocurrency most especially bitcoin, bitcoin is now 54k I believe it will raise before the end of the week.

martin s hahaha

Actually, he was worth 10 billion dollars in the 90's...

He was already a millionaire in this video from investing

@@nicholasroberts7891 *Billionaire You've probably read my previous comment, he was worth 10 billion. 😎

No hair and no money, that is me amazon.com/author/samyogi

reiwell del The HAIR loss or the Wealth?

He not only saw it coming, but he took action. That's the key - lots of people have great ideas, but without action nothing happens

Thanks, Einstein.

He's amazing, can't wait for him to surpass apple.

Paul Hardingham there's also such a thing as ending up bankrupt, homeless or having no money to fund ''grandiose ideas'' speaking from experience. There are many people that take ''action'' you've never heard about because it didn't succeed.

Attention is power

It always has been. Burnays

wait how is attention the biggest commodity i dont understand can you please explain genuinely curious

​@@mubeenamir My understanding is you have to capture people's attention for them to engage in what you do and what you offer, sheer information by itself isn't enough

@@melvoHD yeah actually it makes sense if you live in a human civilization and you want to higher on the hierarchy you need to have some sort of support intended or un intended support and in that case if you think of it as attention altho it is a onerous term it kinda checks out i mean larry fink the worlds most powerful man has the same business he grabs attention of stakeholders and goes above bezos did the same he gave what people wanted and did the same to rise above in the hierarchy but yeah at the same time if you have information is more useful you can surgically alter the macro scenario of the situation to your benefit like in a way bezos did

invotaive

*inovative

@@MassEffectGER wrong

@@TheSmokey1424 thanks, although it is *innovative

If he was honest with himself, this was probably the time when he was having the most fun with the business, brand new venture with exhilarating growth, less cynical and not yet consumed by greed, acquisition and power plus a little more hair

I couldn't agree mo - hey look, a bird!!

Very intelligent man! Men like him deserve every penny they’ve earned.

Not really. Just in the right place and less lazy than most of us.

It's not ahead of his time. It's spot on for his time. People have been saying the same thing for way further back than this interview. Businesses have always been struggling to keep attention.

@@aaronvenn8660 right place? What r u saying? Yh being in the right place? Automatically build Amazon.com did smart business moves an dealt with the headaches of running a a company

lol I have those two aspects but when i ran my business i was a bit to susceptible to being overly optimistic.

He used to work for a hedge fund in New York, of course he's happy. Also he comes across entirely fake in this video.

I'm sorry truthspeaks84 but he is a piece of shit. The company is built on exhausting their employee so they cannot enjoy their benefits because they have to quit. So its very efficient for money but it also destroys life of people. Oh, and the company does not pay any taxes, however, his workers have to rely on food stamps payed by the government which increases taxes and so on. He is a thief and his giant amount of wealth should disgust you and understand what kind of shitty world we live in.

1. no one forces them to work there, you should know what kind of work environment you're getting yourself into when applying for that specific job. 2. the company DOES pay taxes, just not much, they have offshore accounts with HUGE amounts of sums that are FROZEN, so they can't do much with the money anyway. If your company pays the normal precentage tax as ordinary people do, you will without a doubt go under. 3. how is he a thief exactly? he has made his money honestly from his company and no matter how disgusted you are by the fact that he pulls such huge numbers, or how hurt your feelings get, it doesn't give you the right to slander him and call him a thief. get the fuck out of here with that socialist bullshit.

@@klash3532 Wait do you really think all those people who work there had a choice to live like a slave or not? Have you've seen how hopeless people are nowadays? The economy is shitty and everyone is in debt (ie countries and people). The wealth inequality is bigger than ever and a new economic crisis is near. Just simply look at the people who default on their student loan debt, cannot pay for their healthcare and countries like Turkey, Italy, Venezuela, Greece, Iran are already crashing. How can you not call him a thief if he does not pay his workers enough to live in a apartment and feed themselves well without relying on foodstamps supplied by the government? Amazon has received major financial incentives by the government which they achieved by legal bribery called lobbying. If you add those incentives up with the taxes they are paying, they are earning (not losing) money. I don't care they cannot access their money because they stored it on a tax haven outside the US, they sure don't wanna pay it up like an unpriviliged honest taxpayer does it. That is thievery, I don't care if its legal, something like this is unprecendented since the gilded age. By the way for over a decade Amazon was relying on investors to expand and were losing money. During that time Amazon destroyed competition who could not compete because they were not able to do business with a defecit. And what is the result of it? A perfect storm for a Monopoly and modern slavery. By the way, how the hell can you say that a company cannot survive with the taxes they have to pay if a normal taxpayer can barely survive with the sky high rent and other basic expenditures they have to pay for. How can you defend these companies that are doing better than ever before while people are living almost as terrible as they did in the 20s? Every Keynesian capitalist and Adam Smith would be disgusted by your indoctrinated comment. You are far gone from any ethical reasoning

omg, you are gay?

Oh yeah? On this day exactly? Did you fly to the stockbroker on your dragon

@@nickyos8640 No my dragon was in the repairshop that day so I rode my flying douche pony

Bullshit

Seriously?

He actually said "Who are you."

Who are you

it would be funnier like: "“How are you feeling today?” “Hey, what? I’m Jeff Bezos”

Heisenberg it’s a joke 🤦‍♂️

@@UnKnown-bw6ti Bad one

Chris Gritton maybe he did?

Bill Belzek Bezos us also running a space program.

Chris Gritton will amazon sell weed one day?

lol

Live and Let Live Really? Steve jobs use to do LSD and weed.

What about the Rotschilds ?

Theo Buying Amazon Stocks!!

Simp

Derek Welk Do you remember who asked? Neither do I.

This comment right here!! - so powerful

A genius will find an easy solution to a complex problem.

yeah, where is he ? There is one guy that looks like him but bald, but I highly doubt it's him.

@@99yuvv lmao you're the clown here

@@99yuvv he's straight up joking 💀

yuvv r/woooooosh

Luis yh his name is heff bezoz

This is funny 😂😂😂

that was me I’m 24 now

😂

Kyle Reese

Big LOL

Ngakak

He'll reply, no I won't. That will ruined my future vision of customer service.

Wkwkkkkkk

Haha good one!!!

Haha good one!!!

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Lmao

It’s funny cuz a person has 100,000 hairs so for all of them lost he’d have 100B which is around how much he has lol

Being rich is having your cups full from the ❤️

Tyler Hansen what are you on about?!

maxwell smart board

Tyler Hansen - strange comment.

All mainstream sources including Forbes will tell you Jeff is the richest man on earth.... if you believe them you're a dull headed person. The Rothschilds are a pretty extreme example and some would argue their wealth is spread across the family. But regardless a simple google search will inform you Their family has been associated with international banking since AT LEAST the late 1700's and they are merely one example. The real richest elite are not public about their wealth

Did Ebay add books after seeing Amazon do it ? If they did , then how did Amazon survived ?

And suddenly we realised why its name had never had anything to do with books. It was gonna grow to be one jungle of a store...

Agree! We only used eBay until 2010 or so Now I only use amazon

It's crazy to look back at these old dot companies and the rivals that surpassed them. Like MySpace & Facebook and Yahoo & Google.

And their website still sucks compared to eBay

Lol

I get it, you are as though if this was in 2020

Al Wa 王八 王八蛋 Winnie D pooh Damn right! Coal and fossil fuels are the future

Fucking idiots man he is the richest man alive do your research idiots

@@iridium8562 hope you're being sarcastic

Lol

Internet will never take off, this is nonsene! Who will pay the postman to deliver email without a postage stamp!?!

TRY TO GET A RESERVATION AT DORSIA NOW YOU STUPID BASTARD

It already did

I think he was into that whole Yale thing.

When the villain hasnt been corrupted by power

Sound a lot like your typical Naruto villain.

Jeff Bezos isnt a villain, he's beautiful inside and out. People don't have to work at Amazon if they don't want to.

@@davidmoyes7010 I'm sure that's not what he meant lol

Hello I will like to know more about you.

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They don't have guns or industrial-sized woodchippers.

except vehicles

@@PatrickPierceBateman Unfortunately they don't have recreational weed yet either! But we gotta wait for shit to be federally legal first. Alas, the day will come.

@@connerallen642 *in space*

Patrick Bateman that’s the most Bateman response possible lmao

Well zuck ain't human. He's a lizord Edit: a thicc lizord**

Young bezos why you trapping so hard

But all of them seem to have turned into robots

why you got a 120 car garage

young jobs was fly asf what do you mean?

yeah-and i wonder what i was doing in 96.oh well i was only 17 with not a clue on the power of the internet

Underrated comment lmaoo

Didn't see that coming

habib oluyemo OD Lmao

Lol

One pay man. Can purchase anything with one transaction.

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Taco Stacks hahahahaha haven’t seen this type of joke 1,000,000 times on videos of people that go on to be successful

Enron is way better, even real estate is better, specifically in California we all are going to be rich

Taco Stacks buddy, you’re so correct, the only problem is that you’re about 20 years too late! 😂

stop copying peoples comment, its being said, your late

This comment section is basically the same comment but in a different format by different human beings. Zero originality.

butwhat if you buy hair with just a millon dollars

Is this your first day on the internet?

Human bots

@@icookyorice1 no, but its probably yours

To clarify, Bezos' idea was an online bookstore.

@@kirubealwondimu7549 it was pure luck, relying on the stupidity of the general public.

@@anonjohnnyG Relying on the stupidity of the general public has been the most surefire way to win for centuries. How it that luck?

@@anonjohnnyG Why & How????????

@@anonjohnnyG it wasn't luck whatsoever. he literally told you in this video what he did. he saw a problem and he solved it. businessman.

@@gab31282 I don't think he gives a fuck what you or other haters call him, he's the richest man on the planet

genetic lottery, he was destined for this due to high iq from genes. fuck him

@@annon123 survival of the fittest if you ask me

@@annon123 You sound jealous. Focus your efforts on self-improvement.

@@sadfasde3108 Its all a lie brother, once you find out you'll be free.

'haha I'm gonna be so fucking rich'

Hauhauhau.

It's called happiness

Bro he's geeked he smoked like 2 joints before this interview

Guys you need to stop 🤣

He doesn't have a trillion dollars

@@harold6524 he will have

he pays himself 80k a year lmao nearly all of his net worth is his amazon shares

@@harold6524 he will and he is currently getting the money from the hair lol 😂😂😂

And your "Chosen" brethren owns congress ...... had luck with right wings nazis nuts yets?

Nice flag dreidel licker

@@fartsneed9464 לול חח איזה מצחיק

The Washington Compost

@Mahmoud Mohamed plastien:DDDD it tells everything

Crazy !!!

Mustafa Baris I'm starting my company today. It's your opportunity to invest in the future don't miss your opportunity give me $1000 and you will be a multi millionaire

Invest in yourself. That's the best investment you can ever make.

Bitcoin.

1000 cant even get u one share..

My history teacher always said int the past lies the future! But he also said after the finals, is before the finals xD

he’s tired

that's what happens AFTER you fulfill your dreams but now what?

@@mordechairosenhan456 correct

Epic T I sincerely doubt that bothers him. Somebody so driven isn’t gonna be dragged down by what others think of him. It’s probably fatigue, his wife leaving him and that sort of thing

This was before he started working for the CIA

good thing we are not in 20th century

5 years later a Billionaire is gonna say how one idea he got during quarantine made him a rich

@@acheron55 good thing he was talking about the past

@@acheron55 lol

@@Mr3344555 damn xD

@@Mr3344555 #metoo

The Rapper or raper

Keep him away from your kids.

@@Mr3344555 Jeff has actually spent millions on child sex slaves. It's why his wife is divorcing him.

Graham Gonzo i wonder what she is up to today.

Robert Almeida looks like a guy with boobs. Most likley dead.

Hi

@Robert I bet she is also rich today !

Whos mom is that

so true

They are working for Amazon. 5$ per hour

T L funny, amazon has a minimum $15 hourly wage

@@connorendres4544 you wish

T L it literally is lmao. Dont believe me? look it up. Since november 2018, amazon has had a $15 minimum wage for all employees including part time, temporary, and seasonal workers. You dumb fuck dont comment on things you dont understand or know

I wouldn't care

lol

Pingu!!

Am I reading a 20 yrs old comment?

He's on the empire business

Millionaire? Multi-Billionaire. Huge difference. Disgusting, really.

Yes the Guy who doesn't realize u give zero fucks about wtf he talking about for so long but you feel somewhat restrained and awkward to leave so u keep listening

😜😂😂😂😂

For the first time, that weird dude became a trillionaire

😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣

Good job you stole it from some other video! I'd still rather be that person than Bezos, cause I would have lived a long time and getting $100k each day. Jeff will probably die well before 100.

@@k-guy1236 Hey! thanks for your concern actually this saying comes from a netflix doc

Dumb? He is the richest man on the planet today. How was his idea dumb?

Jan S Sounds pretty dumb to me. Why the interviewer even bothered to talk to this guy is beyond me...

The idea isn’t bad but his website name is ridiculous. Amazon? Whoever is going to remember that! Needs a rethink or his business will never take off.

I know right? Who would even want to buy this crap??

This guy is probably dead or a heroin addict. what a nerd.

Lmao 😅

😂

He was married back then.

@@user-jg6xu1kk1i Didn't stop him going after that latina chick lmao.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

@@mad-hl1rd whoosh

@@mad-hl1rd It's just a sarcastic joke. Read all the comments all are sarcastic.

Haha very funny

me too!

AUPA ATLÉTI

nah he just doesn't look as chubby and dorky.

The glow up is real.

Selling your soul to the Devil has its benefits.

He has muscle

That’s what happens when you turn into a robot that lives forever.

Far more evil.

More like Dr. Evil

Aran Rasekhi triggered?

Aran Rasekhi shut the fuck up?

@Aran Rasekhi I'm baffled as to why you said that

Totally, this is how much of surprising life can be.

He divorced her

Publicity stunt, divide and conquer

who cares? trump cheated on all his wives.....is that all you got on Bezo's???? I am sure you buy from Amazon.....

@@jeremypr he was being a good guy and warning him to protect himself why are you so angry and act like he was talking bad about him?

When you are in position of so much power and control over the world, tiny things like these don't matter. The world ceases to dissapoint you. You know you can just buy a solution. Everything is in your palm of your hands. You become God.

Shut up copier

EXPLAIN

How it was like? I mean, his personality, work style, etc.

@@ignacio4092 We met at a dive bar once. He was a sad. I never worked with him, we simply had a conversation.

@@CesarGarcia-ot4ys Sorry to hear that.

Why was he sad??

Tell me more

Antonio Rillera I was thinking the exact same thing.

Attention to my boner

Basic Attention Token, use brave browser

So true. Which is why facebook will thrive in the coming decades.

Poker1989 it already has 7 billion users think its at peak lmao

Phil *billions

You miswrote billions

Yes well deserved yet people are upset with his success

- What happens if Amazon do something bad to you, so you decide to boycott them....your choice of millions of books suddenly isn't so convenient

same

Wow epic

you were born 6 years ago?

wtf

The swedish and nowadays multinational company ginza invented this for over 65 years ago. So jeff stole the idea from them .

You mean nasdaq 👊🏾

@Nosferatu Zodd Nasdaq is the second largest stock exchange behind the NYSE. You're thinking of the NASDAQ Composite which is a stock market index. Amazon first started trading on Nasdaq in 1997 (year of this video).

Lmaoo

Ur hot

@@TheGimicalFreek 💀

I thought it's zuck

luth0r .!!!! Not luther

MailGaming He was ironic. Man you are smart (now Im sarcastic)

MailGaming no shit sherlock

Lol

@MailGaming sarcasm

read it somewhere, though i didn't crosscheck, that professionally he and his companies were doing okay. so i guess he must have at-least made it big enough to have a decent car, house and "some" bank balance

Indeed.

Cringe unoriginal comment

but he is richest man in world

@@onefade656 sorry bud I can see the whoosh comments coming.

@@onefade656 oh jesus fuk stefan... it's always the stefans goddamit