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Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, once told employees that he predicts the company will eventually fail. He emphasized that most big companies don't last beyond 30 years and that his mission was to delay this fate by focusing intensely on customer satisfaction. Bezos warned that a company's downfall begins when it starts focusing inward rather than on its customers. His statement serves as a reminder that even giant companies like Amazon are not immune to eventual decline.

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00:00Jeff Bezos, the man who built Amazon into a global powerhouse, once told his employees,
00:05I predict one day Amazon will fail.
00:08That's right.
00:09The founder himself said the company would eventually go bankrupt.
00:13Bezos wasn't being dramatic.
00:15He was being honest.
00:16He believed that most big companies don't live past 30 years.
00:20His mission, not to make Amazon invincible, but to delay the inevitable as long as possible.
00:26And how do you do that?
00:27By obsessing over customers, not competitors, not press, not stock price, just the customer.
00:33Bezos warned, once a company starts focusing inward instead of outward, that's when the clock starts ticking.
00:40Coming from one of the richest men in history, it's a reminder that even giants fall.
00:45So the question is, if Bezos thinks Amazon will fall one day, what does that say about every other company out there?
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