Thoughts on the Jeff Bezos Interview
Posted in Thought on Mar 4th, 2009
1. What won’t change?
2. Accept failure if you want to be innovative.
3. A customer-alignment strategy (doing expensive, customer centric but “shareholder-unfriendly” things in the short term, a shareholder-alignment (combined with customer-alignment) strategy in the long term.
4. Charlie Rose asked, “choose one word that most contributed to your success and achievement.” Jeff Bezos answered, “willingness to be long-term oriented, willingness to be misunderstood, and willingness to fail.”
5. The goal of the design of Kindle is to make the device disappeared when you read books. You’re totally into the author’s world.
The last point also applies to the design of any platform, either the next social networks or next operating systems or next iTunes or next mobile apps stores. What people want is the seamless experience of interaction with content. The less they can feel the platform, the better.
Let’s make WINDOWS frictionless like oxygen, shall we?
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