Jamie’s Share: Jeff Bezos & John Elkann - Italian Tech Week 2025
- jeanne7629
- Oct 13
- 1 min read
From Jamie: 'Be stubborn on the vision and flexible on the details' Jeff Bezos on successful Entrepreneurship. From entrepreneurship to AI and the future of humans in outer-space there are a lot of gems in this optimistic conversation with Jeff Bezos at 'Italian Tech Week 2025' addressing the modern world.
Thanks for the comments Jeanne and Sass :).
The point that I actually really liked was the idea of Work/Life harmony which really resonated with me. I have found that I can sacrifice one area of my life as a short term trade off (for work as an example) but this quickly begins to negatively impact other areas of my life - friends, family etc. This then results in peaks and troughs of success and burnout both personally and professionally.
The idea of Harmony to me implies flexibility in all areas of life to help individuals consistently be better in all areas of life. Would love to know how someone like Jeff Bezos does this btw :)
Thanks Think Again!
Thank you so much for sharing this, Jamie. I found this fascinating. I am a big fan of Bezos, having worked for him in his innovation lab. It is incredible how, as he said, he has hundreds of ideas every half an hour but learnt to manage them - and keep many of them to himself - otherwise they would ruin Amazon.
I was intrigued by the advice to be stubborn on the vision but flexible on the details. I love the suggestion that people who are right a lot, change their minds a lot - and people who are wrong a lot are very stubborn on the details. I think this speaks to what Jeanne says above about…
Top 3 take-aways that made me “Think & Think Again”:
Thinking long term to think the points of stability - brings focus.
Releasing ideas through time (vs as they come) - being deloberate in those releases, better prioritization. “Too many ideas can kill a business”.
Encourages to wonder - may feel very inefficient but actually very valuable. Having the humility to acknowledge you don’t know where you’re going.
Top 3 things I would like to challenge:
Doesn’t like the word “balance” (work/life balance) because it implies trade offs and that somehow is a bad thing. I believe accepting trade offs is crucial and humbling - being more flexibility is my goal.
I would bring more nuance to this idea that…