Jeff Bezos

Jared Diamond says he is not aware of Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg having a philosophy of life beyond their business. The business leader he admires as a person is the Patagonia leader he knows. For the Patagonia leader, as with John Wooden, Patagonia is a model for life, and he has a philosophy of life. Steve Jobs had a philosophy of life as regards business.

Jared Diamond has had several lengthy conversations with Bill Gates and likes him. People who met Bill Gates under other circumstances hold different views. Jared Diamond met Elon Musk once and met Jeff Bezos once, and he does not know many leaders in the business world. The Patagonia leader emphasized time off for his staff and Pata

When Jeff Bezos was still angel investing, he offered to meet Jason in Seattle if Jason was ever in town. Immediately, Jason booked a flight and was on his way to Seattle.

Jason thinks Bezos continuous to grind people for optimization in situations when he does not need to.

Instead of being generous to low-wage employees, he overworks them. Instead of helping out a struggling city, he strings them along, and then still puts Amazon HQ2 in a city that does not need any more support.

If you are the richest man in the world, it might be a good time to stop grinding and to start giving, like the Gates family did when they were at the top of the list.

On one hand, it would be incredibly convenient for Amazon to use Blue Origin as a launch rocket for their upcoming satellite array. These satellites would enable Amazon to provide better services for their stream and cloud businesses, among other.

On the other hand, because Amazon is a public company, they have to make sure that Blue Origin doesn't just get a contract by default, thus enabling Bezos to stash money from his public company into his private venture.

Liquid hydrogen fuel can be replenished using water from the Moon, thus enabling longer missions that don't require all the fuel to be packed ahead of time, that is Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin is using it as the future for their moon lander.

According to Jeff Bezos, there are a bunch of problems associated with colonizing other planets that do not exist when it comes to nearby outer space.

Other planetary [which we could attempt to colonize] aren't that big when compared to Earth, maybe a doubling of surface area at best. Considering how far they are, that's not that useful.

Round trip times are a significant logistical problem. Trips to Mars, for example, are on the order of years, and launch opportunities to Mars only occur once every 22 months.

Lastly, other planets are far enough away to do real time communications with Earth, limited by the speed of light.

Jeff Bezos is willing to invest in big ideas for the long run. Amazon as a company is not concerned with immediate revenue, and instead looks at the total size of an opportunity. According to Dave Schappell, Jeff Bezos is an unstoppable Terminator.

Once upon a time, Dave Schappell was an accountant. Instead of complaining about the life that he hated, Dave did a Wharton MBA, got an internship at Amazon, and the rest as they say is history!

Dave stayed at Amazon from 1998 to 2004, working along side Jeff Bezos and a handful of key early hires. Then, he left to pursue other interests, first working with his Wharton friends at Jib-Jab, then founding his own startup called TeachStreet, and now once again working with a classmate, at MyPerfectColor.

Naval Ravikant names a calm mind, a fit body, and a house full of love, and calls that his favorite tweet. They cannot be bought. They have to be earned. Jeff Bezos, he says, still has to exercise, still has to work on his closest relationship, and still does not get his inner state from anything outside him. Ravikant treats the three as health, mental health, and the people closest to you, and says they bring more peace than money does. He had a practical tweetstorm drafted on how to get there and was holding it, because advice in the middle gets attacked from both sides.