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#405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin

Thu, 14 Dec 2023

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Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin. Thank you for listening ❤ Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Notion: https://notion.com/lex - Policygenius: https://policygenius.com/lex - MasterClass: https://masterclass.com/lexpod to get 15% off - Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/lex to get special savings - InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/lex to get 20% off Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/jeff-bezos-transcript EPISODE LINKS: Jeff's Instagram: https://instagram.com/jeffbezos Jeff's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeffbezos Amazon: https://amazon.com Blue Origin: https://blueorigin.com Invent and Wander (book): https://amzn.to/41bF2SY PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ YouTube Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/lexfridman YouTube Clips: https://youtube.com/lexclips SUPPORT & CONNECT: - Check out the sponsors above, it's the best way to support this podcast - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman - Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman - Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman OUTLINE: Here's the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (08:53) - Texas ranch and childhood (12:31) - Space exploration and rocket engineering (25:05) - Physics (34:39) - New Glenn rocket (1:17:28) - Lunar program (1:27:24) - Amazon (1:44:45) - Principles (2:03:25) - Productivity (2:14:03) - Future of humanity

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0.109 - 24.639 Lex Fridman

The following is a conversation with Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and Blue Origin. This is his first time doing a conversation of this kind and of this length. And as he told me, it felt like we could have easily talked for many more hours, and I'm sure we will. And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor. Check them out in the description. It's the best way to support this podcast.

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25.12 - 43.52 Lex Fridman

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43.68 - 66.514 Lex Fridman

And if you want to get in touch with me for other reasons, like guest suggestions, you can go to lexfriedman.com slash contact. Like with aliens. But in this case, it's with me. And now, on to the full ad reads. There's always no ads in the middle. I try to make these interesting, but if you must skip them, friends, please still check out our sponsors. I enjoy their stuff. Maybe you will, too.

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67.415 - 85.339 Lex Fridman

This show is brought to you by Notion, a note-taking app that I've been using forever, but it's not just for note-taking. It's also for team collaboration, and it's been doing that forever. But recently, it also has the... extra added AI capabilities with the Notion AI tool.

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85.659 - 100.565 Lex Fridman

Obviously, everybody's trying to figure out how to integrate the progress with LLMs, the continued progress, the accelerating progress, the boundless progress with LLMs into our productive lives.

101.55 - 128.138 Lex Fridman

To me, obviously, the note-taking, the putting words onto paper as part of the process of figuring out intellectual puzzles, of thinking through things, designing things, summarizing things, interpreting things, all of that, that's the writing process. And integrating AI into that to help you, almost like a buddy, is obviously empowering. But there's an interface question, how to do that well.

128.198 - 150.388 Lex Fridman

And to me, Notion does that better than any tool I've used so far. Notion AI can now give you instant answers to your questions using information from across your wiki, projects, docs, and meeting notes. Try Notion AI for free when you go to notion.com. That's all lowercase, notion.com. To try the power of Notion AI today.

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This show is also brought to you by Policy Genius, a marketplace for finding and buying life insurance. Almost every single conversation I have in different ways, I ponder, I explore, I deliberate the simple fact of our mortality, the finiteness of every experience, the human experience, but every experience that makes up the human experience. the good and the bad.

179.256 - 205.301 Lex Fridman

I think bringing that up as a topic is important because it is one of the big questions for the introspecting animal that is a human being, for somebody who's trying to figure out the puzzle of the human condition. Why does it have to end? Is it good that it has to end? How does the fact of it ending play a

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