Jeff Bezos: "Nerd of the Amazon" | 60 Minutes Archive

Bob Simon profiled Jeff Bezos for 60 Minutes in 1999, when Amazon was known as "Earth's biggest bookstore."
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[@311guy1]

The part where they discuss Amazon being more valuable than Sears and is that realistic. Oh how much has changed since this aired.

[@polkcountyboxbreaks]

Dude was throwing some crazy shade while walking down that street 😂

[@arris20]

😂😂

[@chrissmith8469]

😂😂😂😂

[@circlepityeah]

9:45 when we talked about data and storage using floppy disk 😂

[@volvo8938]

AWS, thats whats carrying the company now

[@yvanlouis7164]

Lmao they only got half a GB today they get your blood type lmao and dna sequence

[@JohnCasteel1333]

I’m 35 now, he was in 1999 I was 9 lol

[@Digital_Native99]

I love these kind of videos where they show the early days of the Tech Giants they are now.

[@elliottharris9015]

Me, too.

[@swendoodle]

KEEP UP THE ARCHIVE EPISODES!!!!!!

[@007thematrix007]

that laugh at the end 🤣 lolol .....

[@chrissmith8469]

😂😂😂

[@BushMann731]

Love the archive episodes! Thanks 😊

[@5600hp]

Man I’m loving these kinds of historical videos. Learned something from both stock market perspective and how they become a giant company.

[@MBarberfan4life]

"Hahahaha!"~Lex Luthor

[@dr.dan.1971]

😆😆

[@Jamal_Ginsberg]

What a wonderful time capsule. Thank you, 60 Minutes digital team. Excellent reporting from Bob Simon all those years ago. "One of your employees has said that you collect half a gigabyte - whatever that is - of information on your customers every day. That's about 350 floppy disks worth." I laughed out loud.

[@Anonymous-KB]

i'm watching a 60 minutes that was posted 60 minutes ago....

[@anidani-un6ox]

it's a review...

[@neoneherefrom5836]

ok cool

[@mattmayo3539]

“What’s with the Honda?” Stealth wealth at its finest.

[@neoneherefrom5836]

Or he just doesn’t give af about overpriced status symbols

[@yonikki]

​​@@neoneherefrom5836wait, doesn't Bezos have a $500 million yacht? (overpriced status symbol) And doesn't he have a Global Earth Fund to combat climate change while operating that overpriced status symbol? Wow ... how money can change a man.

[@francois7355]

Paparazzi

[@neoneherefrom5836]

@@mattmayo3539 look at him now and he’s a totally different person

[@nikosvault]

9:33 sh*t just got real for Mr. Simon.

[@ianbrooks9686]

I loved Amazon when it was just a bookstore, I got expelled so i homeschooled myself for a year with Amazon. 2000

[@ILGlocker]

I opened my account in 1999. I knew they had something going. Why I never invested I don't know.

[@Mr2tooCool4U]

Just don’t make the same mistake again…we ALL regret it. There will be more opportunities but you’ve got to be patient and vigilant of what’s going on

[@JohnCasteel1333]

What the hell is Sears?

[@la7era1u54]

Oh, how times have changed

[@asan1050]

Thank you very much!

[@jd415]

Happy 30th birthday Amazon!

[@JohnCasteel1333]

Now he’s jacked and rules Earth in a versus match with Elon

[@keith3362]

Fast fwd to today, he didn’t like being nerdy, shave the head and get jacked ditch wife for different trophy wife….maybe he was better off back then. I think he didn’t minimize regrets he will have at 80.

[@emiljeong5421]

Most of us would probably have done the same thing if we were in his shoes. Money and power change people (generally speaking)

[@rahmi.digital]

that laugh was always a giveaway imho. So weird and you can tell something is off with him

[@tonywong8134]

Have you seen his new wife? It's nowhere near a trophy.

[@jawdrop6038]

NVDIA is next “microprocessor” seems like anytime a company is featured on 60 minutes, 10-20 years later it’s even bigger.

[@taojianfeng3566]

Yes . Seems nvda market value still reasonable now nvda 100+b revenue vs 3t stock value then amzn 600m vs 30b

[@JT-ex3vq]

Sounds like the master in doctor who if u ask me 😂

[@TINGSBAR]

amazon had good office parties in 1996

[@guayaquilhook1]

Wow how far they have come beyond books!

[@ivanjrn]

This is great! I really enjoy these youth focused videos.

[@tyrellcobb4665]

Sears Roebuck? What is that? Also what is that noble barney thing they kept talking about? And that Rockafella fella

[@rillest75]

He seems human in this segment

[@Showyouaroundme]

It's not fear, it's a fact.

[@guayaquilhook1]

Such a sweet guy in the early days. Hope he can keep on minimizing regrets.

[@NunYa953]

Back when 60 minutes was actually journalism.

[@skahler]

It's funny how his original theory was to ensure that he didn't buy too much unnecessary crap - yet when you consider the purpose of Amazon today: yeah, it's about buying a bunch of unnecessary crap

[@aowen1079]

Considering everything Jeff Bezos has already achieved at this point. And then he still manages to be so normal, as in relatable, friendly, practical with no pretensions. I've never met a billionaire but I can imagine they would probably be very different. And what he has done for his business was pioneering and he is a genius at that.

[@Fressica_Rabbit]

Look at that AI working to figure Bob's reading profile, except we didn't call it that back then! Interesting story. Bezos has definitely had a glow up!

[@shaneintegra]

Dude has changed so much... I guess you gotta in this day and age though. People can be absolutely vile

[@ninahaines]

Oh so cool! Thank you for the blast from the past!

[@pikiwiki]

"a couple of geeks, who sketched out some software, could destroy Sears Roebuck" He says, with a shiver in his voice, as if the whole world is crumbling

[@sutats]

A trip down memory lane.

[@user-fr8ve7wf6i]

It all came true. You’d have to pay me a million dollars a day to listen to that laugh. Literally gave me a headache. But honestly I’d bet he doesn’t laugh like that anymore. Doesn’t even look like the same person

[@vaels5682]

The laugh sounds more evil now

[@e.c.3844]

Bezos used to be wealthiest 5 years ago but not anymore current wealthiest person is Elon Musk according to Forbes Bloomberg billionaires index.

[@harris998]

Full Episode?

[@94462]

Lol 😂 He gives Kevin Spacey, Kayser Soze vibes here, lmfao 🤣 the devil 😈 biggest trick is showing you he doesn’t exist with his beat up Honda and fake humble energy he gives the unassuming but devious sly dangerous ⚠️ vibe here lmfao 🤣

[@dreamcatcher5502]

That look on his face when the lawsuit and Walmart are brought up. That's the real psychopath there. 😉

[@ChefZaddy]

Regret Minimization Framework

[@elliottharris9015]

Now Bezos is one of the wealthiest people in the world.

[@marco-ye6oc]

Hmmm...I like him. In the 25 years since this was filmed we've seen most of the things happen that they said couldn't happen here. Amazon somehow took the place of Kmart, Sears, Barnes and Noble and even Walmart- I wouldn't have ever dreamt that could happen back then.

[@SC_XOLOs]

5:59 billionaire driving a Honda 😮

[@skahler]

Can you imagine the security flaws that must have existed in those early days...

[@aviationenthusiast4353]

he was so much cooler back then...

[@karlwithakcomedy]

11:07 That "phenomenon" is just a commonly known fact today

[@rcsebastian2865]

where is SEARS now? just wondering. I am curious to know if Amazon today is worth more than SEARS? lol

[@TrendyTales-ep9yq]

loved his confident laugh

[@JASONBROWN-bt9dz]

JEFF SEEMS SUPER INTELLIGENT

[@jackpanozzo6004]

Perhaps lol

[@solargod3671]

Keys words minimize your regrets. Listen to your intuition young grasshoppers.

[@Nat-Norbert-Klopp]

I am going to work now!

[@OlllOHD]

I do like the 35 yr old Jeff

[@3_3645]

Starting delivery at three am, owning medical facilities! Leave it be we won't have good MDS they aren't paid enough

[@Wildman-zh8lg]

Customers don't need a four hundred foot yacht

[@buglove515]

Today's nerd= tomorrow BOSS!!!!

[@billcooke4413]

Wish I bought bunch of stock at this time

[@kjjohnson24]

ALL HAIL CORPORATE OVERLORD BEZOS!!! 🙌🏼

[@cheickfall7399]

Did anyone notice that he looks much younger and better now? Lol.. The power of being a billionaire...

[@jorgepadilla9945]

or just working our and eating right and getting rid of all the hair he had on his head.

[@cheickfall7399]

@@jorgepadilla9945 Not just that. Money is one constant that changes many things in life..

[@tedjuniormichael1083]

I work at Amazon 2024.😊

[@anidani-un6ox]

👑

[@shanecoleman7114]

I'm sorry then bud...

[@solargod3671]

The interviewer last question asked you ever think about losing it all? Never think like that people or you would possibly lose.

[@blek1987]

"That's the beauty of technology"

[@makcity7850]

It was always a data harvesting scheme from the start, we just didn't want to see if because we got cheap books and stuff.

[@extraterrestrialfascisti7625]

Overnight I became one of the poorest men in the world. Where's my interview?

[@siphamandlamthwesi8399]

Regret minimisation framework is the way to live.

[@annunakian8054]

Mommy, what's a Sears??

[@anidani-un6ox]

The right boss is going to make the companies people rich

[@thaimanclark]

Sleeze put out of business book shops. Won't. Let me sell books for less than 8 bucks, so they can take 4.

[@Malouco]

This was Jeff before he ignored CNN and took horse de wormer...

[@kristinrutherford8779]

He was such a nice guy back then

[@alfiesdad4757]

love his laughs. they could be heard even before you see him

[@srreventon]

Interesting interview.. i was too focused on other things then amazon stock 😂 1997 10k of NVR is worth 3.3 million so i was on the right track Today my entertainment is knowing amazon is going crazy trying to figure out how i invented my product..might take them another 5 years to figure it out and try to copy it 😅

[@hinesfigher6093]

"Regret minimization framework", must be why he belly laughs so much

[@ffcc7655]

The boy has potential

[@davidcahan]

That's the dude who bagged Lauren Sanchez. 🤯🤯🤯

[@elmehdiConsultant]

Wonderful to see that story now 8n 2024

[@tomasobamela]

With that same laugh is the way he deposits his daily money

[@JohnnyParker-we4nf]

Research his family tree. Look up L P Gise.

[@Showyouaroundme]

This man will be so wealthy one day.

[@fatteebaddee]

The stereotype of a rich successful American man does not fit 1999 60 minutes views

[@josecanales2978]

It was definitely investing

[@trollol_]

revenge of the nerds

[@nbk9978]

Why he always laughing

[@OperationChicago]

Nerd is not tha name for him.

[@dongreen3144]

I wonder what Jeff bezos doing now

[@maje9448]

Verify

[@monolithsound]

"He's a good christian man. We're gonna run a good christian..." forgive me, good Christians but you must admit that "good" and "christian " are not synonymous. Look in any Thesaurus. So using this language, one can expect that within their language, non-christian is, in their minds, synonymous with "bad." And they call everyone bit themselves to have been "brainwashed." These methods of attacking one another are beyond childish. But sadly, effective. This is the state that, as a society, we find ourselves living in.

[@joshuajuarez3471]

Ow he has the best relationship with China

[@ahmedlopez4038]

muchos besos😂

[@elchingon98734]

Bezos is Z corp

[@Buzzmonkey24]

bezos do you regret on building a yacht, that is bigger then some USA cities ? i wonder ...

[@TravisBerthelot]

FED banking system at work. 0 rates for friends and all losses on the poor.

[@ryanbarrett5359]

This guy became a billionaire by not focusing on money

[@Mr-Clark]

Billionaire and drives a Honda. Today broke people drive a Maserati.

[@juandoe4934]

Check out the woman this “nerd” has now 😂😂😂😂

[@dreamcatcher5502]

INCONCEIVABLE !!! HAHAHAHAHA !!!! 😂😳

[@257rani]

❤😊