Steve Anderson

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The Vault Unlocked · Why Playing It Safe Is the Riskiest Thing a Founder Can Do (The Jeff Bezos Principle Nobody Applies) · 3 Jun 2026 podcast

And you have one guy that's still sitting on the vision.

Like what was he not saying in those letters indirectly?

A couple of things come to mind and he, he ended up addressing them later.

So let me, and I, what's coming to mind is,

um employees and really more specifically fulfillment center employees the warehouse workers uh lots of stories of what's the right word tough working conditions their drivers not being able to take breaks uh you know things like that um

And early on, even in that, I think the 98 letter, he talked about the importance of employees and hiring the right employees in order for Amazon to be successful.

But he also said, this is a tough place to work.

We have a vision.

And here's how he phrased it.

We are building something great, something we can tell our grandchildren about.

Part of that translated into pushing for faster and maybe not, certainly early on, maybe not taking as much time or effort or thought into how do we better treat our warehouse employees.

Now, I think because of pushback,

responding to some of that.

They actually, so Amazon had 14 leadership principles that are different than my growth principles, but there's some overlap.

But they added two more just before he steps aside as a CEO.

And they, you know, one of them was will be the, Amazon will be the best and safest place for an employee to work in the world.

And again, for them, leadership principles are core to who the organization is.

So that was a different focus.

I think there's still legacy kind of thoughts.

I mean, one of the pushbacks I get talking about the book is, yeah, but he treats his employees like crap.

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