#388 Jeff Bezos's Shareholder Letters!

贝索斯的股东信件!

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2025-05-14

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"To read Jeff Bezos’s shareholder letters is to get a crash course in running a high-growth internet business from someone who mastered it before any of the playbooks were written." That is the best description of Bezos's letters I have ever read. I just finished rereading these letters for the 4th or 5th time. With clear thinking and ferocious intelligence, Bezos provides a masterclass in building a customer-obsessed, enduring franchise. With relentless repetition Bezos teaches us about the importance of invention, risk-taking, wandering, differentiation, technology, judgement, high-standards, customer obsession, long-term orientation, and why value trumps everything.  Read the letters on Amazon's website here. Or in the book Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos Register for the live event in New York at Ramp!  Ramp gives you everything you need to control spend, watch your costs, and optimize your financial operations —all on a single platform. Make history's greatest entrepreneurs proud by going to Ramp and learning how they can help your business control your costs and save time and money. Join my free email newsletter to get my top 10 highlights from every book ---- Founders Notes gives you the ability to tap into the collective knowledge of history's greatest entrepreneurs on demand. Use it to supplement the decisions you make in your work.  Get access to Founders Notes here.  ---- “I have listened to every episode released and look forward to every episode that comes out. The only criticism I would have is that after each podcast I usually want to buy the book because I am interested so my poor wallet suffers. ” — Gareth Be like Gareth. Buy a book: All the books featured on Founders Podcast
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  • I will be in New York City on May 27th doing a live show.

  • I will be interviewed by my friend Patrick O'Shaughnessy at Ramps headquarters.

  • The event is free to attend.

  • I will leave a link down below so you can register.

  • I'll be doing several live events at Ramps headquarters over the next 12 to 24 months.

  • So even if you can't make this one, make sure you register so you'll be notified on the next one.

  • This event isn't reserved for Ramps customers, but future events will be because space is limited.

  • So if you aren't already running your business on Ramp, you really should be.

  • I run my business on ramp.

  • Most of the top CEOs and founders that I know do so as well.

  • And I actually think there's an idea from Jeff Bezos' shareholder letters that I think is related to this and really just good advice for anyone in business.

  • And it's Jeff's idea on the importance of heavily investing in introductions to new customers.

  • As you're about to hear,

  • Jeff was very clear from the start that he was going to build an enduring, long-lasting business.

  • He was not interested at all.

  • in building an undifferentiated commodity business.

  • He wanted to build something to deliver value to customers more than anyone else in the world.

  • And he believed he could succeed at that goal better than anyone else.

  • And as you'll hear on this episode, that if you believed what Jeff believed,

  • then you too would do what Jeff was doing.