Jamie’s Share: Jeff Bezos & John Elkann - Italian Tech Week 2025

Top 3 take-aways that made me “Think & Think Again”:


Top 3 things I would like to challenge:

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 the importance of flexibility.

As Jeanne mentioned, I was a bit confused about his comments about balance - was he referring to a watering down of conviction to an extent that the vision is compromised by the notion of balance?

It was so freaky to hear him say that in around 20 years (?) millions of people will be living in space and that it will happen overnight - and that people will choose to be there, because it would actually be more efficient to have robots rather than humans there.

Gosh, so much in this. Thank you, Jamie! Thank you, Think Again!

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!