Invent & wander : the collected writings of Jeff Bezos / with an introduction by Walter Isaacson

Part 1: The shareholder letters. It's all about the long term (1997) ; Obsessions (1998) ; Building for the long term (1999) ; Taking the long view (2000) ; The customer franchise is our most valuable asset (2001) ; What's good for customers is good for shareholders (2002) ; Long-term thinking (2003) ; Thinking about finance (2004) ; Making decisions (2005) ; Growing new businesses (2006) ; A team of missionaries (2007) ; Working backward (2008) ; Setting goals (2009) ; Fundamental tools (2010) ; The power of invention (2011) ; Internally driven (2012) ; "Wow" (2013) ; Three big ideas (2014) ; Big winners pay for many experiments (2015) ; Fending off day 2 (2016) ; Building a culture of high standards (2017) ; Intuition, curiosity, and the power of wandering (2018) ; Scale of good (2019) -- Part 2: Life and work. My gift in life ; A crucial moment at Princeton ; "We are what we choose": address to the Princeton graduating class of 2010 ; Resourcefulness ; Why I went from a hedge fund to selling books ; Finding the root cause ; Creating wealth ; The idea for prime ; Thinking three years out ; Where the idea of Amazon web services came from ; Alexa, AI, and machine learning ; Physical stores and Whole Foods ; Buying the Washington Post ; Trust ; Work-life harmony ; Recruiting talent: do you want mercenaries or missionaries? ; Decisions ; Competition ; Government scrutiny and big companies ; The climate pledge ; The Bezos day one fund ; The purpose of going into space ; It's still day one for America

A collection of writings by the founder and CEO of Amazon includes a selection of Bezos's unusual annual shareholder letters, speeches, and interviews that offer insight into his background, his professional approaches, and the evolutions of his ideas