Jeff Bezos

1964– · American business magnate (born 1964)

Topics: engineering leadership, creativity, artificial intelligence

• And I do like group invention. I think there's really nothing more fun than sitting at a whiteboard with a group of smart people and spitballing and coming up with new ideas and objections to those ideas, and then solutions to the objections and going back and forth.

  — Jeff Bezos

• The thing I have noticed is when the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. There's something wrong with the way you are measuring it.

  — Jeff Bezos

• That kind of divine discontent comes from observing customers and noticing that things can always be better.

  — Jeff Bezos

• The telescope was an invention, but looking through it at Jupiter, knowing that it had moons was a discovery...It's interesting to me that large language models in their current form are not inventions. They're discoveries.

  — Jeff Bezos

• Communication is a sign of dysfunction. It means people aren’t working together in a close, organic way. We should be trying to figure out ways for teams to communicate less with each other, not more.

  — Jeff Bezos