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Invent and Wander
- The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos, with an Introduction by Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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Summary
In Jeff Bezos' own words, the core principles and philosophy that have guided him in creating, building, and leading Amazon and Blue Origin.
In this collection of Jeff Bezos' writings - his unique and strikingly original annual shareholder letters, plus numerous speeches and interviews that provide insight into his background, his work, and the evolution of his ideas - you'll gain an insider's view of the why and how of his success. Spanning a range of topics across business and public policy, from innovation and customer obsession to climate change and outer space, this book provides a rare glimpse into how Bezos thinks about the world and where the future might take us.
Written in a direct, down-to-earth style, Invent and Wander offers listeners a master class in business values, strategy, and execution.
Each insight offers new ways of thinking through today's challenges - and more importantly, tomorrow's - and the never-ending urgency of striving ahead, never resting on one's laurels. Everyone from CEOs of the Fortune 100 to entrepreneurs just setting up shop to the millions who use Amazon's products and services in their homes or businesses will come to understand the principles that have driven the success of one of the most important innovators of our time.
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- Matthew
- 16-06-21
A Great Listen
So many great nuggets and insights. Some repetition in the second half of the audio but overall a great listen.
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- Kindle Customer
- 18-12-20
Repetitive
Lots of great insights and background about Amazon but lots of chapters repeat a large amount of content from previous chapters.
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- Augusta Eluma
- 29-04-23
Very insightful
A collection of speeches and writings from the formidable entrepreneur, that gives great insight into his business and personal philosophies. Enjoyed listening to this as it's the closest thing I could find to an autobiography.
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- Tommy
- 02-03-22
Good book - very insightful
Enjoyed this read. Was quite repetitive at times but gained valuable insights into the mind of Jeff Bezos.
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- Anonymous User
- 19-07-22
interesting
Visionary entrepreneur makes good, becomes global domineer. How to build an empire in not so easy steps.
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- Gregor G Murray
- 26-09-23
Interesting but a lot of repeatition
Jeff Bezos is a visionary leader and what has been achieved with Amazon is amazingly impressive.
This is his writings from shareholder letters and other speeches. They are all uniquely interesting, but when listened too in this format there is a lot of repetition in what is said, the stories told and the information presented.
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- D. Panchal
- 18-05-21
Invent and bore - on repeat!Monotonous and boring
A thoroughly monotonous delivery of writings that are incredibly repetitive. This could have been edited better, but was full of repetition and boring information about how amazons products are amazing and how they've done so well. Not really much information other than if you were to do a case study nfor the Amazon business.
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- userbiz143
- 28-12-20
Not A Convincing Book!
The entire book is on a narrative that Amazon has done and accomplished great things and they're obsessed with customers, but anyone who ever ordered or tried to sell something with them knows that Amazon lacks customer centric approach, my personal experience with them is that most of my orders had never reached me, and selling anything on it is a miracle, but those guys who wish to learn about secrets and success strategies of amazon will learn nothing at all, as the entire book is about their success, achievements and accomplishments stories, a little radical overview or tip of an iceberg perspective on their vision, mission and leadership, and a childish Star Wars fantasy world approach of founder Jeff Bezos. I do think that you should get, read and listen this book for getting rid of the amazon itch for your entrepreneurial journey, you may realize that fantasizing, dreaming or big talk may also work for you and aid in success, especially in ever growing e-commerce world, if it worked for Jeff Bezos or Amazon Brand. Good Luck
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- James K
- 19-11-20
The introduction is great.
The introduction is great. The rest of the book is simply someone narrating, Bezos shareholder letters and other talks. You can get all that stuff for free and on YouTube actually watch Jeff say it himself. Lazy author and the book is a bit of a con.
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- Martin
- 12-04-24
Repetitive
Such a shame. Could’ve been a great story but very repetitive with the same stories used 3-4 times. Parts were interesting but others very dull. The reading of the shareholder letters for 15 years left me feel in short changed on the book
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