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Founder and Executive Chair, Amazon · Dec 14, 2023 · Interview, Lex Fridman Podcast #405: Jeff Bezos

But what’s interesting is that just scaling things up, and I put just in quotes because it’s actually hard to scale things up, but just scaling things up also appears to pay huge dividends.

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Jeff Bezos, Founder and Executive Chair, Amazon
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Lex Fridman Podcast #405: Jeff Bezos
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