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- Jeff Bezos On 60 Minutes
Link .......... Online extra videos: Bezos recalls Amazon's riskiest move Why Bezos bought The Washington Post The Jeff Bezos of 1999: Nerd of the Amazon (February 1999 "60 Minutes" segment) ...
- As Jeff Bezos Prepares To Take Over, A Look At Forces That Shaped The Washington Post Sale
Thanks to Lincoln for passing this along. The April 2013 interview with Graham is available HERE. On April 4, Donald E. Graham sat for a videotaped interview about how the Internet and digital technology had hammered and transformed the news business....
- For Jeff Bezos, A New Frontier
Found via Abnormal Returns. A newspaper represents not just a business but a “public trust,” Washington Post Co. chairman and chief executive Donald E. Graham has said more than once. In other words, the values that matter in owning a newspaper go...
- The 1975 Buffett Memo That Saved Wapo's Pension
FORTUNE -- One of the (many) things that surprised people about the recent $250 million sale of the Washington Post to Amazon (AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos was the health of the Washington Post's pension plan. At a time when most pension plans are struggling,...
- Put Buyers First? What A Concept
When I spoke to analysts and investors, they had all kinds of reasons for Amazon’s performance last year. “They finally reached a point where their R&D spending was not expanding as fast as their revenues,” said Citigroup’s Mark S. Mahaney....
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Jeffrey Bezos, Washington Post’s next owner, aims for a new ‘golden era’ at the newspaper
Jeffrey P. Bezos, the next owner of The Washington Post, says he doesn’t have all the answers for what’s ailing the newspaper industry or for the financially challenged news organization he is preparing to buy. But he says he’s eager to start asking questions and conducting experiments in the quest for a new “golden era” at The Post.
In his first interview since his $250 million purchase of The Post was announced in early August, Bezos said his basic approach to operating the business will be similar to the philosophy that has guided him in building Amazon.com from a start-up in 1995 to an Internet colossus with $61 billion in sales last year.
“We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient,” he said. “If you replace ‘customer’ with ‘reader,’ that approach, that point of view, can be successful at The Post, too.”
- Jeff Bezos On 60 Minutes
Link .......... Online extra videos: Bezos recalls Amazon's riskiest move Why Bezos bought The Washington Post The Jeff Bezos of 1999: Nerd of the Amazon (February 1999 "60 Minutes" segment) ...
- As Jeff Bezos Prepares To Take Over, A Look At Forces That Shaped The Washington Post Sale
Thanks to Lincoln for passing this along. The April 2013 interview with Graham is available HERE. On April 4, Donald E. Graham sat for a videotaped interview about how the Internet and digital technology had hammered and transformed the news business....
- For Jeff Bezos, A New Frontier
Found via Abnormal Returns. A newspaper represents not just a business but a “public trust,” Washington Post Co. chairman and chief executive Donald E. Graham has said more than once. In other words, the values that matter in owning a newspaper go...
- The 1975 Buffett Memo That Saved Wapo's Pension
FORTUNE -- One of the (many) things that surprised people about the recent $250 million sale of the Washington Post to Amazon (AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos was the health of the Washington Post's pension plan. At a time when most pension plans are struggling,...
- Put Buyers First? What A Concept
When I spoke to analysts and investors, they had all kinds of reasons for Amazon’s performance last year. “They finally reached a point where their R&D spending was not expanding as fast as their revenues,” said Citigroup’s Mark S. Mahaney....