Blake Scholl
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 29 Jul
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And not only does he want to make them exist, he's going to put them everywhere and he's going to own the market.
And of course, Microsoft did that and then some.
But what was it like to be Bill on that day?
Nobody comes down and taps you on the shoulder and says, by the way, you're the one.
Out of all the billions of people that could have done this incredible thing, you're the one that's actually to do it.
So here's the confidence, go.
That conversation never happens.
No one gives you that permission.
And a thing I came to believe was that the only way to know what I was capable of was to pick something that I work really hard at and give it everything I got.
and to stop worrying about whether I could do it and to put all my mental energy on a how to do it.
And so the self-belief actually came late.
And there's still some days I get up and think, oh, man, this is hard.
Can I pull this off?
I think that kind of self-doubt is normal.
You have to put it aside, do it anyway, and become the person you need to become to succeed at what you've set out to do.
Okay, what did I learn from working at Amazon in the early days and any lessons from Bezos?
I have an enormous respect for Jeff and I was very lucky to get to work with him even a little bit when I was young.
I think one of the things that Amazon did really well that is difficult to do together is to think very long range while having incredible operating discipline in the moment.
So Jeff liked to make kind of seven year business plans
And because of that, he would tackle things that seemed bizarre to much of the rest of the world.
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