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What Jeff Bezos thinks about innovation

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Founder of Amazon in 1994 and of the space company Blue Origin in 2000.

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4 dated positions, 2023, in their own words. Our reading of what Jeff Bezos has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingEfficiency and real invention are at odds, because genuine invention requires wandering and you have to give yourself permission to do it.

    Their wordsEfficiency and invention are sort of at odds, because real invention, Not incremental improvement... Incremental improvement is so important in every endeavor, in everything you do, you have to work hard on also just making things a little bit better. But I'm talking about real invention, real lateral thinking that requires wandering, and you have to give yourself permission to wander.

    ↗Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin | Lex Fridman Podcast #405youtube.com 4th of 20 in this recording

  3. Our readingCutting the cost of something is not a lesser achievement than inventing it, because inventing a cheaper way is precisely how the whole world gets richer.

    Their wordsAnd when you invent a better way, you make the whole world richer. So whatever it was, I don't know how many thousands of years ago, somebody invented the plow. And when they invented the plow, they made the whole world richer because they made farming less expensive. And so it is a big deal to invent better ways. That's how the world gets richer.

    ↗Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin | Lex Fridman Podcast #405youtube.com 6th of 20 in this recording

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

    ambition

    Their wordsThat'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.

    ↗Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin | Lex Fridman Podcast #405youtube.com 9th of 20 in this recording

  7. Our readingLarge language models are discoveries rather than inventions, closer to looking through a telescope than to engineering an aircraft.

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    Their wordsIt's interesting to me that large language models in their current form are not inventions, they're discoveries. The telescope was an invention, but looking through it at Jupiter, knowing that it had moons, was a discovery.

    ↗Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin | Lex Fridman Podcast #405youtube.com 17th of 20 in this recording