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Jeff Bezos has been making waves this week with candid revelations about his leadership style and advice for aspiring entrepreneurs. Speaking at Italian Tech Week in Turin, the Amazon founder opened up about a pivotal moment in the company's history when his former executive Jeff Wilke, who led Amazon Worldwide Consumer, told him something shocking: "Jeff, you have enough ideas to destroy Amazon." Bezos, who admits he can generate a hundred ideas in half an hour at a whiteboard, was creating so much work that the organization couldn't keep up. Wilke explained that he needed to release ideas at a rate the company could actually handle, a lesson Bezos calls a profound insight that changed how he led. He started prioritizing better, keeping lists, and holding back ideas until the right time.
At the same conference, Bezos also shared career advice aimed squarely at Gen Z entrepreneurs, pushing back against the college dropout narrative popularized by Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates. According to Fortune, Bezos told young people they should work at a best-practices company first to learn fundamentals like hiring and interviewing before launching their own ventures. He founded Amazon at age 30 after a decade of work experience, and insists that extra decade improved Amazon's odds of success. With a net worth of 234 billion dollars, he graduated summa cum laude from Princeton in 1986 with an engineering degree.
Bezos also weighed in on the artificial intelligence boom, describing it as an industrial bubble at Italian Tech Week. But unlike others sounding alarm bells, he sees this as productive, comparing it to past technological revolutions like railroads and the internet. The Amazon founder believes AI will change every industry, even if many current investments ultimately fail. His space company Blue Origin continues to attract attention, though one recent social media post went viral showing Bezos face-planting on the ground during what appears to be a Blue Origin event. He also stirred up social media chatter by asking followers who they would cast as the next James Bond.
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