What Jared Diamond has said about Amazon (company)
2 quotes · 1 episode · Sep 3, 2026
Jared Diamond, American geographer, historian and author of "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and "Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings", has been quoted on Amazon (company) 2 times in 1 episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, most recently on September 3, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Diamond says Bezos always intended to build an everything store and chose books as a starting point because they are uniform and centrally warehoused.
“It was his goal – explicitly his goal in life was to set up an everything store. But he recognized that an everything store has to start out with something”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2549 - Jared Diamond (Sep 3, 2026) · Listen from 32:03
Diamond argues Bezos's distinctive contribution was prioritizing customer satisfaction over investor returns.
“He prioritized customer satisfaction. So he developed something that would have happened, that did happen before and did happen afterwards, but he did it in a distinctive way”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2549 - Jared Diamond (Sep 3, 2026) · Listen from 34:45
Episodes
#2549 - Jared DiamondThe Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 3, 2026 · 2 h 34 min
Jared Diamond talks with Joe Rogan about leadership, the rise of world religions, the origins of writing, language, and cannibalism and Kuru in New Guinea.