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Building Moats: How the Amazon Flywheel Reinforces Itself
“The most important thing [is] trying to find a business with a wide and long-lasting moat around it… protecting a terrific economic castle with an honest lord in charge of the castle.” – Warren Buffett Warren Buffett’s castle-and-moat metaphor captures one of business’s most enduring ideas: build systems that protect themselves. Jeff Bezos did exactly that…
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October Reading List: 5 Best Books I Read in October 2025
October was an excellent reading month. I finished five incredible books in my October reading list—all tied together by a single theme: entrepreneurship. The first book was Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike. Phil Knight’s story is a masterclass in grit and vision—how a scrappy shoe startup became one of the most…
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Swing for the Fences: Jeff Bezos’s Strategy for Big Bets & Big Wins
“I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big.” – Babe Ruth Swing for the Fences Baseball and business share more than competition—they both reward bold swings. In Amazon Unbound, Jeff Bezos draws a vivid comparison between them and shows how to swing for the fences in business. In baseball, if…
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Creative Wandering: Jeff Bezos’s Innovation Playbook
“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Invent on Behalf of the Customer Jeff Bezos loved new technologies, bold ideas, and fresh business lines—three pillars that made Amazon unstoppable. At the heart of this was creative wandering, Amazon customer obsession in action. Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global…
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Only the Paranoid Survive: How Andy Grove Saw Change Before Everyone Else
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” – John F. Kennedy Only the Paranoid Survive and the Rules of Horizontal Industries A horizontal industry sells products and services that are used by many different businesses and customers. It’s the opposite of…
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