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An inventor's highest ambition should be that the invention is eventually taken for granted and stops being seen as an invention at all.

Drawn from what Jeff Bezos said

What these subjects mean

ambition How much to take on and how hard to push: superlinear returns to effort, focus, slack time, and procrastination.

innovation Where new things come from and how they spread: invention against diffusion, and being near the factory floor.

Why is ambition important?under our view: Aim high: settling for realistic is how ambitions fail

What Jeff Bezos actually said

  1. Jeff Bezos Founder of Amazon in 1994 and of the space company Blue Origin in 2000
    That's an inventor's greatest dream, is that their inventions are so successful that they are one day taken for granted. Nobody thinks of Amazon as an invention anymore. Nobody thinks of customer reviews as an invention.

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    ↗Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin | Lex Fridman Podcast #405youtube.com

    14 Dec 2023 · video · 2h 11m · spoken · official transcript

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