Project selection and timing
Subject in Entrepreneurship
Project selection and timing has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including My First Million. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Shaan PuriEntrepreneur and investor, co-host of My First Million, former Twitch executive
Puri argues Bezos's most impressive trait is not swinging at wrong opportunities between big bets like Amazon, Blue Origin, and AI.
“It's that for five years or six years or whatever in between, he didn't get itchy and swing at the wrong thing, right?”
My First Million: Ex-Amazon VP tells us what it’s really like working with Jeff Bezos (Oct 28, 2026) · Listen from 41:16
Ethan EvansFormer Amazon vice president (Prime Video, Appstore, Twitch oversight) turned executive coach
Evans believes Bezos's success depended partly on timing, arguing that being ten years older or younger would likely have changed his outcome.
“And that's no insult to Jeff. I just think for anybody, there's something about timing”
My First Million: Ex-Amazon VP tells us what it’s really like working with Jeff Bezos (Oct 28, 2026) · Listen from 35:17
Podcasts
- My First Million · 1 episode
Episodes
Ex-Amazon VP tells us what it’s really like working with Jeff BezosMy First Million · Oct 28, 2026 · 1 h 16 min
Former Amazon VP Ethan Evans tells Shaan Puri and Sam Parr about Jeff Bezos's management style, flaws, Amazon Prime's origins, and life after Amazon.