What Jeff Bezos Can Teach Us About Success and Innovation
Lessons from the world’s richest man.
Jeff Bezos’ story is one of persistence. It’s amazing to think the world’s richest man was strongly advised against ever starting on Amazon. His story is testament to following your heart and pursuing your goals, no matter what anyone thinks — even those closest to you.
Like Steve Jobs at Apple, Bezos was a brilliant man gifted at making money and connecting ideas to marketable products. During the massive tech boom of the 1990s, Bezos, like Jobs, capitalized on finding a market where it previously didn’t exist.
You see, prior to Amazon, everyone bought books in brick-and-mortar bookstores like Barnes & Noble and Borders. Some went to smaller bookstores or their local library. Jeff Bezos was here to deliver your reading experience in the palm of your hand — all by mail in just a few days.
Bezos completely changed the shopping and reading experience for billions of people all over the world. From books, he moved on to countless millions of other products that could be sold online and shipped right to your door.
A big part of Bezos’ story was almost, “What could have been?” Amazon wasn’t built in a day, nor even a few years. In fact, right out of Princeton University, Jeff Bezos wasn’t…
