David Senra
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But there's all these stories in Bezos' early career where people on Amazon would come to him with a huge problem.
They thought maybe they'd get fired.
Because he's like, oh, great.
Like we had a problem we didn't even know.
If we solve this, our company gets even more valuable.
There's this guy named Henry Kaiser who was as famous in his day as maybe like an Elon is today.
And he built 100 companies.
One of them still exists, Kaiser Permanente.
He built the Liberty Ships in World War II.
And he has this great maxim that like people would come to him and they'd be all depressed and he'd be excited.
And they're like, what the hell is going on here, Henry?
And he goes, problems are just opportunities and workflows.
This is a great way to think about it.
It's like, if I can solve this problem for other people, I make other people's lives better.