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

You know, sitting back, let me wait a few years.

I don't know if this internet's going to be anything.

And at that time, you could do that.

You know, certainly today, much, much harder.

So I started looking at companies in general and something I did pretty effectively, I would say, is look outside the insurance industry for ideas and trends and where things are going.

Because the insurance industry tends to be very conservative and slow to adopt.

So I looked at companies that had once been very successful and were gone, out of business, and companies that had been successful and continue to be successful and trying to understand what's the difference, why one company did this and the other company wasn't able to.

During that research, came across Amazon, had sort of heard and read maybe one or two of the letters to shareholders that Jeff Bezos wrote about Amazon, but started getting deeper.

And at one point, read every letter that he had published to that point, probably through that, at this point, it was probably 2017, and read them one after the other as a narrative and realized that,

there were trends that he talked about in the letters.

And really the trends that caught my attention were how he grew Amazon and how Amazon was able to be successful and continue to be successful.

So that's kind of what the hook that got me.

And then I had this brilliant idea to create Allegiant, right?

Here's some great takeaways from Jeff Bezos,

I don't even know if he was a billionaire at that point, probably.

But obviously successful.

Amazon continues to grow.

Here's some things you can learn wherever you are in your business journey, from startup to 50 employees to 500 employees, et cetera.

So I created a one-page executive summary of all the letters to that point.

Fortunately, my wife is in the book publishing business.

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