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IMDb Founder: Jeff Bezos's best advice & learnings from watching 15,000 films - Col Needham

Secret Leaders with Dan Murray-Serter & Chris Donnelly

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Jeff Bezos' Vision for Amazon

In December 97, Amazon.com only sold books. Jeff Bezos asked IMDB to meet him in a London hotel room for business talks. He explained that the company would be going from selling books to music and then later in 1998, they were going to open an online video store. And anything would be possible from a licensing deal where Amazon would build a great web experience for purchasing VHS tapes and these shiny new round things called DVDs,. if they ever catch on.

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