Steve Anderson

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463 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 3 Jun

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I think he had an interesting innate ability to look into the future.

And really two examples of that.

One is just seeing the internet.

So the whole origin story with Amazon is he was a financial analyst in New York City.

and kept hearing about internet and how fast its use was growing.

And he started asking himself the question, could it be used to sell stuff?

And he said, yes, it will be.

And so another example is, I think it's probably 98 or 99 letters, again, an early letter, when he talks about how slow the internet is.

And that bandwidth was a constraint on Amazon, right?

Because it took time for the webpage to load.

They had to be conscious of how many images, right?

All the stuff that had to happen to speed up the time.

But he also said, and today is the worst it's ever going to be.

So again, there's acknowledging problems to overcome and being realistic about

what they could do, but he was always, he literally was always thinking multiple years or decades ahead.

The second example of that is his space company, Blue Origin.

He started that in 2001.

He had a long-term vision, in fact,

He was valedictorian of his high school class in Miami.

And his valedictorian speech was how manufacturing would be moved to space so people could come back to the earth as a national park and visit.

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