The Pig Wrestlers
High Standards – Episode 4
Ray and Jock dig into one of Jeff Bezos's letters talking about how high standards can be teachable. With a brief cameo at the beginning from Ray's son :-)
You can take a look at Bezos's letter on high standards here:
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000119312518121161/d456916dex991.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVRv1r4tUWI
In this episode
0:00 Opening titles0:54 Amazon's high standards2:14 Practice and experience needed to acquire a new skill4:03 Bezos's 2-page letter5:26 People adopt the behaviours of their peers7:34 Paying bad hires to leave8:34 No stellar growth in the first five years10:46 Was bookselling the prototype for Amazon's future business?12:22 The vision is inconsequential15:14 Cybertruck19:06 The now-iconic London Olympics 2012 logo20:27 Closing credits
About The Pig Wrestlers
Recorded on 5 February 2021Music: Crazy Glue (Instrumental Version) by Josh Woodward (CC-BY 4.0)