#405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin

5286.932 - 5314.144 Jeff Bezos

So excited and scared, anxious, thought the odds of success were low, told all of our early investors that I thought there was a 30% chance of success, by which I'd just been getting your money back, not what actually happened. Because that's the truth. Every startup company is unlikely to work. It's helpful to be in reality about that. But that doesn't mean you can't be optimistic.