![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (AMZN) to starting Blue Origin, an aerospace exploration company whose motto reads “Step by Step, Ferociously.” Twenty-four years after its founding, Amazon There was a time when people were saying Amazon was overpriced, that it was going to go bankrupt,” Graham told Poppy Harlow in an exclusive interview for the CNN documentary “The Age of Amazon.” “What I’ve never heard anyone say is that he paid attention to quarterly results as opposed to the health of Amazon in the long term.”īezos’ focus on the long-term is probably the reason why some of his business ventures are nothing short of moonshots: from transforming first the publishing industry, then commerce as a whole through Amazon “I’ve heard people accuse Jeff and Amazon of a lot of things. Graham said he had been a “massive Amazon customer” at the time when he was searching for a new owner for The Washington Post and his first impression after talking to Bezos in those initial conversations is “how well that company worked.” Graham credits Bezos’ “usual characteristic” of thinking long term for Amazon’s success. He was the one who shepherded the sale of his family’s newspaper to Bezos six years ago. Graham, former publisher of the Washington Post Drew Angerer/Getty Images North America/Getty Images ![]()
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