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

2024-07-05 News & Politics
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Bob Simon profiled Jeff Bezos for 60 Minutes in 1999, when Amazon was known as "Earth's biggest bookstore." "60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10. Subscribe to the "60 Minutes" YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/60minutes Watch full episodes: https://cbsn.ws/1Qkjo1F Get more "60 Minutes" from "60 Minutes: Overtime": https://cbsnews.com/60-minutes/overtime/ Follow "60 Minutes" on Instagram: https://instagram.com/60minutes/ Like "60 Minutes" on Facebook:https://facebook.com/60minutes Follow "60 Minutes" on Twitter: https://twitter.com/60Minutes Subscribe to our newsletter: https://cbsnews.com/newsletters/ Download the CBS News app: https://cbsnews.com/mobile/ Try Paramount+ free: https://paramountplus.com/?ftag=PPM-05-10aeh8h For video licensing inquiries, contact: [email protected]

Top Comments (10)

@cletus2941 2024-08-08

they always say, "be nice to the nerds, you'll work for them one day"

927 9 replies
@polkcountyboxbreaks 2024-07-06

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

744 15 replies
@mattmayo3539 2024-07-06

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

474 20 replies
@davehasenford3985 2024-07-11

He’s got the rich person laugh that Jim Carrey imitates

446 4 replies
@MichealPeggins 2024-09-02

"For the customer, Amazon only exists online." Crazy how the internet was once so surreal.

387 4 replies
@joshuacruz4244 2024-09-04

You can tell the interviewer when he was young and in school he would pick and make fun of the nerds.

232 2 replies
@5600hp 2024-07-07

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

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@golafs 2025-01-30

Fast forward: Sears Roebuck went bankrupt in 2018, Amazon market cap today is 2.5 Trillion USD.

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@mindhunter8772 2024-12-31

The "Regret minimization frame work" said by Bezos is really a life advice for everyone.

80 3 replies
@wsaj41221 2025-09-15

$1000 of amazon stock in 1997 is now worth $2.5 mil

62 2 replies

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