The David Rubenstein Show: Jeff Bezos doesn’t like meetings before 10 am.

You don’t like meetings before 10 am.  You like to get 8 hours of sleep.

 

As a senior executive, you get paid to make a few big decisions regarding future quarters 2 or 3 years in advance.  If I make 3 good decisions today that’s good enough.

 

If Amazon was a startup, that would be different.

 

Sep.19 — Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder, entrepreneur and owner of the Washington Post, talks to David Rubenstein about his background, how he came up with the idea for Amazon, building the company, some of the key businesses including Prime and Whole Foods, the space race and philanthropy. The world’s richest man says his most important decisions are made not with quantitative analysis but “with instinct, intuition, taste, heart.” Bezos speaks in the latest episode of “The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations.” The interview was taped on September 13 in Washington.

Extra: David Rubenstein Full Interview

What follows is a conversation with David Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle Group, one of the most storied private-equity firms in history. We spoke with Rubenstein in August, 2017, for our six-part series, “The Secret Life of a C.E.O.” Since we spoke, Rubenstein stepped down as co-C.E.O. of Carlyle, but he’s still executive chairman