The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Jeff Bezos reads as The Visionary because his leadership begins with a picture of the future that others cannot yet see, then bends organisations toward it. As the founder of Amazon, he built an enterprise around long horizons rather than short comfort, and his conversation on The David Rubenstein Show reflects that orientation.
“Sophisticated enough and mature enough to handle these technologies. And so, and by the way, before you get to general AI and the possibility of AI having agency, and there's a lot of things that have to happen, but there's so much benefit that's going to come from these technologies in the meantime, even before their general AI in terms…”
“Proxy for truth, I guess. Proxy for truth, the proxy for custard, let's say in this case, it's a proxy for customer happiness. But that metric is not actually customer happiness, it's a proxy for customer happiness. The person who invented the metric understood that connection.”
“They're not principles, they're a little more tactical than principles, but it's kind of the main ideas that we want this program to embody, whatever those are. And one of the things that we do is we put, these are the tenets for this program. And in parentheses, we always put, unless you know a better way.”
“This is another really good and kind of That are really important to manage. And then there are small things internally into Amazon. We call them paper cuts. So we have, we're always working on the big things. Like, if you ask me, and most of the energy goes into the big things, as it should.”
The David Rubenstein Show: “Jeff Bezos”
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