https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954565#M1123859 <DIV class="moat-trackable pb-f-theme-normal pb-f-dehydrate-false full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-article-article-topper"><DIV class="border-bottom-off border-bottom-"><DIV class="article-topper"><DIV class="headline-kicker"><A href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style" target="_blank">Style</A></DIV>Jeff Bezos to his future Washington Post journalists: Put the readers first<DIV class="clear">&nbsp;</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><DIV class="pb-container">&nbsp;</DIV><DIV class="moat-trackable pb-f-theme-normal pb-f-dehydrate-false full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-article-article-deck">&nbsp;</DIV><DIV class="moat-trackable pb-f-theme-normal pb-f-dehydrate-false full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-article-article-body"><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV class="article-body"><DIV class="inline-content inline-gallery-embedded"><DIV class="pb-container"><DIV class="pb-feature-ssi-single pb-f-theme-normal pb-f-dehydrate-false pb-3 pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-gallery-gallery"><DIV class="wp-volt-gal wp-volt-gal-p-end-circular wp-volt-gal-promo-stub wp-volt-gal-on-promo-slide wp-volt-gal-embed-promo wp-volt-gal-embed-promo-hide wp-volt-gal-filters-enabled"><DIV class="wp-volt-gal-main">&nbsp;</DIV><DIV class="wp-volt-gal-embed-promo-container"><DIV class="wp-volt-gal-embed-promo-container-table"><DIV class="wp-volt-gal-embed-promo-top">Post staff meets the new boss</DIV><DIV class="wp-volt-gal-embed-promo-mid"><DIV class="cell"><DIV class="wp-volt-gal-embed-promo-mid-img-container"><IMG src="https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2013/09/05/Style/Images/113597972.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></DIV><DIV class="wp-volt-gal-embed-promo-mid-label">View Photos</DIV></DIV></DIV><DIV class="wp-volt-gal-embed-promo-bottom"><SPAN class="cell">Jeffrey P. Bezos, the incoming owner of The Washington Post, walks with publisher Katharine Weymouth after visiting the newspaper’s offices.</SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><DIV class="pb-sig-line hasnt-headshot has-0-headshots hasnt-bio is-not-column"><SPAN class="pb-byline">By<SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN><A href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/paul-farhi/" target="_blank"><SPAN>Paul Farhi</SPAN></A><SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN>and<SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN><A href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/craig-timberg/" target="_blank"><SPAN>Craig Timberg</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN><SPAN class="pb-timestamp">September 4, 2013</SPAN><SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN></DIV><P><A title="www.washingtonpost.com" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/jeffrey-bezos-washington-posts-next-owner-aims-for-a-new-golden-era-at-the-newspaper/2013/09/02/30c00b60-13f6-11e3-b182-1b3bb2eb474c_story.html" target="_blank">Jeffrey P. Bezos</A><SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN>had a simple bit of advice for the staff of the newspaper he’ll soon own: Put readers, not advertisers, first. Don’t write to impress each other. And above all, “Don’t be boring.”</P><P><A title="www.washingtonpost.com" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/post-staff-meets-the-new-boss/2013/09/04/90e87226-158f-11e3-a2ec-b47e45e6f8ef_gallery.html" target="_blank">In a whirlwind series of meetings</A><SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN>over two days, the<SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN><A title="washpost.bloomberg.com" href="http://washpost.bloomberg.com/marketnews/stockdetail/?symbol=AMZN" target="_blank">Amazon.com</A>billionaire charmed and disarmed rooms full of skeptical journalists with a relentlessly upbeat vision that evoked The Washington Post’s best traditions while promising to update them for a technologically advanced new era.</P><P>The Bezos plan for the news organization he has agreed to buy for $250&nbsp;million centers on recreating the “daily ritual” of reading The Post as a bundle, not merely a series of individual stories. He was bullish about creating that experience on tablet computers, lukewarm about the prospects of doing so on the Web, and reassuring about the future of the old-fashioned newspaper itself — at least for the foreseeable future.</P><P>“People will buy a package,” Bezos said at one meeting of reporters and editors. “They will not pay for a story.”</P><P>Bezos seemed relaxed throughout two days of meetings, including a town-hall-style session in The Post’s community room before hundreds of journalists. He spoke without notes and joked often, punctuating some of his witticisms and self-deprecating comments with explosive laughter. He remained poised and good-humored from his perch on stage at the town-hall meeting despite fighting a balky sound system.</P><DIV class="inline-content inline-video"><DIV class="posttv-video-embed powa powa-processed small"><DIV class="powa-shot"><DIV class="powa-shot-image powa-shot-click powa-shot-click-play"><DIV class="powa-shot-play-btn powa-shot-click powa-shot-click-play"><SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN><SPAN class="powa-shot-play-btn-text powa-shot-click franklin-bold powa-shot-click-play">Play Video</SPAN><SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN><SPAN class="powa-shot-click powa-shot-click-play franklin-light powa-shot-play-btn-date powa-shot-click-play">3:08</SPAN></DIV><DIV class="powa-shot-logo">&nbsp;</DIV></DIV></DIV><DIV class="powa-pane"><DIV class="powa-shot-masthead"><DIV class="powa-shot-title franklin-light">Jeff Bezos: The newest newspaper man</DIV><DIV class="powa-shot-sharing">&nbsp;</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><DIV class="powa-blurb inline-video-caption"><DIV class="wpv-caption pb-caption"><SPAN class="wpv-blurb">Jeff Bezos, the Internet mogul and Amazon.com founder, recently purchased The Washington Post in a historic shift for the newspaper.</SPAN><SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN>(Nicki DeMarco and Emi Kolawole/The Washington Post)</DIV></DIV></DIV><P>Bezos also repeatedly emphasized the importance of investigative journalism and said he was prepared to stand up to pressure in reporting stories that government officials might seek to suppress. He also said his political views were already in line with those of The Post’s editorial page and would defer to its editor, Fred Hiatt, on many matters.</P><P>“I don’t feel the need to have an opinion on every issue,” Bezos said. “I’m sure I don’t know much about things like Syria and foreign entanglements. I’m happy to let the experts opine on that.”</P><P>Among those in attendance at the newsroom-wide meeting were former executive editors Ben Bradlee and Leonard Downie Jr., former managing editor Robert Kaiser and star investigative reporter Bob Woodward, lending the event an intergenerational bridge to the newspaper’s storied past. (Donald E. Graham, whose family controlled the newspaper for 80 years, was not there, but his niece, Post publisher Katharine Weymouth, was in attendance).</P><P>After 90 minutes of hearing Bezos lay out his thoughts, Bradlee, 92, counted himself among those who came away with a positive first impression. “I thought he was original,” he said. “That’s what impressed me the most.”</P><P>Throughout the day, Bezos returned to his idea of using tablets as a key vehicle for reaching a new generation of readers. While saying The Post’s print editions will remain for many years, he said tablet computers could offer readers a look and feel similar to a traditional printed paper.</P><P>“You have to figure out: How can we make the new thing? Because you have to acknowledge that the physical print business is in structural decline,” he said. “You can’t pretend that that’s not the case. You have to accept it and move forward. . . . The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past, no matter how good it was, especially for an institution like The Washington Post, which has such a hallowed past.”</P><P>In comments that cheered the newsroom, Bezos said The Post needed to grow in both revenue and readers, though he declined to say whether The Post newsroom would grow. “What has been happening over the last several years can’t continue to happen,” he said. “If every year we cut the newsroom a little more and a little more and a little more, we know where that ends.”</P><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><P>Or as he put it repeatedly in meetings: “All businesses need to be forever young.<SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN><SPAN>. . .</SPAN><SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN>If your customer base ages with you as a company, you’re Woolworth’s.”</P><P>Asked about the irony of his interest in buying a newspaper and Amazon’s practice of not commenting for many news stories, Bezos laughed and responded, “The most powerful minds can hold powerful inconsistencies.” He said one reason he often declines to comment is because he does not want his competition to know about his plans. “We’re not as silent or secretive as we’re sometimes portrayed,” he said of Amazon, conceding that “we are on the quiet side.”</P><P>Bezos, who will remain in Seattle after his purchase of The Post closes in October, sidestepped a question about his future involvement in the Washington area. “I would never out-Don Don. Impossible,” he said, referring to Graham. “I will have to do this as Jeff. And it’s going to be different for so many reasons, and one of them is that I’m going to be in Seattle.”</P><P>When asked to discuss Amazon’s motives in cutting off Web services for WikiLeaks in 2010, a time of intense government scrutiny of the anti-secrecy site’s disclosure of confidential military and diplomatic documents, Bezos said that the decision was made by unit managers and was not the result of government pressure. The company has previously said that WikiLeaks violated Amazon’s terms of service.</P><P>Yet Bezos made clear that though he believes in “American exceptionalism,” he sees The Post’s traditional watchdog roles as essential.</P><P>“We’re not perfect and our elected officials are not perfect and our regulators are not perfect,” he said in the newsroom question-and-answer session. “The credibility that an organization like The Washington Post brings is incredibly important.”</P><P>The reaction to the new boss from around The Post’s newsroom was widely favorable.</P><P>“What was most impressive was the combination of humility — that he doesn’t have all the answers yet — and the confidence that he will somehow figure it out,” said Marc Fisher, a veteran reporter and former Metro columnist.</P><DIV class="moat-trackable pb-f-theme-normal pb-f-dehydrate-false pb-1 pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-page-newsletter-inLine injected-by-front-end"><DIV class="border-bottom- border-bottom- nl-top-hairline"><DIV class="newsletter-inline-unit keywordExists"><DIV class="signup-module row inline-newsletter"><DIV class="title-container col-xs-8"><P class="headline">National News Alerts</P><P class="tagline">Major national and political news as it breaks.</P></DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV class="sign-up col-xs-4 open-sign-up">Sign up</DIV></DIV><DIV class="clear">&nbsp;</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><P>Added Valerie Strauss, another Post veteran, who writes an education blog: “There was a lot he didn’t say, but what he did was well received. It’s going to be a very different place.”</P><P>Post reporters have already begun to refer to Bezos as “El Jeffe,” a play on the Spanish word for “chief” or “boss.”</P><P>He ended what amounted to a two-day charm offensive by recalling for the newsroom his own encounter, as a young boy in the 1970s, with the impact of Post journalism.</P><P>After apologizing for potentially embarrassing Woodward, Bezos said: “I watched the Watergate hearings on my elbow on the living-room floor next to my grandfather, who didn’t turn them off. And so these things make an impression.”</P><P class="trailer">&nbsp;</P><P class="trailleft">Steven Mufson contributed to this report.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><DIV class="clear">&nbsp;</DIV></DIV></DIV><DIV class="pb-container">&nbsp;</DIV><DIV class="chain-wrapper standard-chain in-chain border-bottom-hairline border-bottom-100-pct pb-layout-item pb-chain pb-c-standard-chain full"><DIV class="chain-content no-skin "><DIV class="moat-trackable pb-f-theme-normal pb-f-dehydrate-false col-md-6 col-sm-6 pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-page-comments col-xs-12 col-lg-6"><DIV class="pb-comment-wrapper "><DIV class="comment-summary jump "><DIV class="comment-summary-count"><SPAN class="echo_container comment-vars echo-counter format_short comments processed">48</SPAN></DIV><SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN><DIV class="comment-summary-display"><SPAN class="comment-display">Comments</SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><DIV class="moat-trackable pb-f-theme-normal pb-f-dehydrate-false col-xs-0 col-md-6 pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-page-share-bar col-sm-6 col-lg-6"><DIV class="social-tools-wrapper-bottom align-right color-icons "><UL><LI><A href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/jeff-bezos-to-his-future-washington-post-journalists-put-the-readers-first/2013/09/04/33040228-15a9-11e3-a2ec-b47e45e6f8ef_story.html?utm_term=.27e81b1f15ae#" target="_blank"><SPAN class="fa fa-facebook-square">&nbsp;</SPAN><SPAN class="longname">Share on Facebook</SPAN><SPAN class="shortname">Share</SPAN></A></LI><LI><A href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/jeff-bezos-to-his-future-washington-post-journalists-put-the-readers-first/2013/09/04/33040228-15a9-11e3-a2ec-b47e45e6f8ef_story.html?utm_term=.27e81b1f15ae#" target="_blank"><SPAN class="fa fa-twitter">&nbsp;</SPAN><SPAN class="longname">Share on Twitter</SPAN><SPAN class="shortname">Tweet</SPAN></A></LI><LI><A target="_blank"><SPAN class="hideText">Share via Email</SPAN></A></LI></UL><DIV class="clear">&nbsp;</DIV></DIV></DIV><DIV class="clear">&nbsp;</DIV></DIV><DIV class="clear">&nbsp;</DIV></DIV><DIV class="moat-trackable pb-f-theme-normal pb-f-dehydrate-false full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-article-article-author-bio"><DIV class="pb-bottom-author-wrapper border-bottom-hairline"><DIV class="pb-bottom-author hide-images"><DIV class="pb-author-info col-sm-offset-2"><DIV class="pb-author-bio">Paul Farhi is The Washington Post's media reporter.</DIV><SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN><A href="https://twitter.com/intent/follow?screen_name=farhip" target="_blank"><SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN>Follow @farhip</A></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV> Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:51:54 GMT golding76 2017-07-27T18:51:54Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954381#M1123801 <P><FONT size="3">Just edged out Bill Gates... JEFF BEZOS of Amazon.</FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT size="3">Bezos clocks in at over 90 billion.</FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT size="3">He is very serious about Philanthropy and is asking for ideas.</FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT size="3">Source: Business Insider</FONT></P> Thu, 27 Jul 2017 17:50:03 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954381#M1123801 Noel7 2017-07-27T17:50:03Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954384#M1123802 <P>Well, I helped to make him that rich, by all the shopping that I have been doing on Amazon lately!</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Good for him for giving back.</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 27 Jul 2017 17:51:29 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954384#M1123802 Plaid Pants2 2017-07-27T17:51:29Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954392#M1123805 <P><FONT size="4">"...the new distinction could fuel his interest in furthering human progress through for-profit companies — efforts that could greatly shift how the world's wealthiest think about philanthropy." </FONT></P> Thu, 27 Jul 2017 17:53:05 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954392#M1123805 Noel7 2017-07-27T17:53:05Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954405#M1123810 <BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><a href="https://community.qvc.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/8788">@Noel7</a> wrote:<BR /><P><FONT size="3">Just edged out Bill Gates... JEFF BEZOS of Amazon.</FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT size="3">Bezos clocks in at over 90 billion.</FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><STRONG><FONT size="3">He is very serious about Philanthropy and is asking for ideas.</FONT></STRONG></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT size="3">Source: Business Insider</FONT></P><HR /></BLOCKQUOTE><P><STRONG>Great news <img id="womanhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-womanhappy" src="https://community.qvc.com/i/smilies/16x16_woman-happy.png" alt="Woman Happy" title="Woman Happy" /></STRONG></P> Thu, 27 Jul 2017 17:58:02 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954405#M1123810 JaneMarple 2017-07-27T17:58:02Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954408#M1123811 <P><FONT size="3">I did, too <a href="https://community.qvc.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/68816">@Plaid Pants2</a></FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT size="3">I am part of the new wave of ordering online <img id="womanlol" class="emoticon emoticon-womanlol" src="https://community.qvc.com/i/smilies/16x16_woman-lol.png" alt="Woman LOL" title="Woman LOL" />&nbsp; DH was hurt in a fall last week.&nbsp; Thank goodness for ordering online!</FONT></P> Thu, 27 Jul 2017 17:58:37 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954408#M1123811 Noel7 2017-07-27T17:58:37Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954418#M1123814 <BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><a href="https://community.qvc.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/8788">@Noel7</a> wrote:<BR /><P><FONT size="3">I did, too <a href="https://community.qvc.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/68816">@Plaid Pants2</a></FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT size="3">I am part of the new wave of ordering online <img id="womanlol" class="emoticon emoticon-womanlol" src="https://community.qvc.com/i/smilies/16x16_woman-lol.png" alt="Woman LOL" title="Woman LOL" />&nbsp; DH was hurt in a fall last week.&nbsp; Thank goodness for ordering online!</FONT></P><HR /></BLOCKQUOTE><P><STRONG>So sorry about your DH&nbsp;<a href="https://community.qvc.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/8788">@Noel7</a>, how is he doing?<img id="womansad" class="emoticon emoticon-womansad" src="https://community.qvc.com/i/smilies/16x16_woman-sad.png" alt="Woman Sad" title="Woman Sad" /></STRONG></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><STRONG>BTW how are you doing with your new echo? I'm still playing with mine.&nbsp;<img id="womanhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-womanhappy" src="https://community.qvc.com/i/smilies/16x16_woman-happy.png" alt="Woman Happy" title="Woman Happy" /></STRONG></P> Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:01:42 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954418#M1123814 JaneMarple 2017-07-27T18:01:42Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954436#M1123818 <BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><a href="https://community.qvc.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/8788">@Noel7</a> wrote:<BR /><P><FONT size="3">Just edged out Bill Gates... JEFF BEZOS of Amazon.</FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT size="3">Bezos clocks in at over 90 billion.</FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT size="3">He is very serious about Philanthropy and is asking for ideas.</FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT size="3">Source: Business Insider</FONT></P><HR /></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Ideas? &nbsp;I guarantee he is going to get bank account numbers and home addresses instead. &nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I honestly wouldn't mind someone like that just stepping in and creating trusts for the good that's already out there like St. Jude's or whatever cause personally speaks to him. &nbsp;That kind of money could possibly put cancer or any other disease he cares about out of business. &nbsp;</P> Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:05:15 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954436#M1123818 Laura14 2017-07-27T18:05:15Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954445#M1123819 <P><FONT size="3">Hi Jane, it's been crazy around here, dr. appts, etc.&nbsp; I haven't put up the echo yet, I won't even go into the&nbsp;wackiness of it all.</FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT size="3">It was a serious injury, but he seems to be doing pretty well.</FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT size="3">How are you?</FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><a href="https://community.qvc.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/154389">@JaneMarple</a></P> Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:06:50 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954445#M1123819 Noel7 2017-07-27T18:06:50Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954455#M1123823 <BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><a href="https://community.qvc.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/10138">@Laura14</a> wrote:<BR /><BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><a href="https://community.qvc.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/8788">@Noel7</a> wrote:<BR /><P><FONT size="3">Just edged out Bill Gates... JEFF BEZOS of Amazon.</FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT size="3">Bezos clocks in at over 90 billion.</FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT size="3">He is very serious about Philanthropy and is asking for ideas.</FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT size="3">Source: Business Insider</FONT></P><HR /></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Ideas? &nbsp;I guarantee he is going to get bank account numbers and home addresses instead. &nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I honestly wouldn't mind someone like that just stepping in and creating trusts for the good that's already out there like St. Jude's or whatever cause personally speaks to him. &nbsp;That kind of money could possibly put cancer or any other disease he cares about out of business. &nbsp;</P><HR /></BLOCKQUOTE><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT size="3">Hi <a href="https://community.qvc.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/10138">@Laura14</a>&nbsp; I agree with you. Bill Gates has done a lot of good, and Elon Musk wants to revamp the world, lol.</FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT size="3">Musk is designing an underground 29 minute trip from Washington DC to NYC... by car.&nbsp; <img id="womansurprised" class="emoticon emoticon-womansurprised" src="https://community.qvc.com/i/smilies/16x16_woman-surprised.png" alt="Woman Surprised" title="Woman Surprised" /></FONT></P> Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:09:37 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954455#M1123823 Noel7 2017-07-27T18:09:37Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954459#M1123825 <P>I am very pleased by the direction of <EM>The Washington Post</EM> during these difficult times. &nbsp;That newspaper is lighting the way.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>In truth, I was at first put off when Jeff Bezos purchased it, but in his first interview posted in the newspaper, he impressed me with his thoughts that a revered institution must "stay young" in order to thrive and continue. &nbsp;When I read his insights in that interview, my thinking changed.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>On his watch, democracy will not die in darkness. &nbsp;He is the right man at the right time to own the <EM>Post.</EM></P> Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:11:01 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954459#M1123825 golding76 2017-07-27T18:11:01Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954468#M1123826 <BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><a href="https://community.qvc.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/8788">@Noel7</a> wrote:<BR /><P><FONT size="3">Hi Jane, it's been crazy around here, dr. appts, etc.&nbsp; I haven't put up the echo yet, I won't even go into the&nbsp;wackiness of it all.</FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT size="3">It was a serious injury, but he seems to be doing pretty well.</FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT size="3">How are you?</FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><a href="https://community.qvc.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/154389">@JaneMarple</a></P><HR /></BLOCKQUOTE><P><STRONG>I'm so glad <a href="https://community.qvc.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/8788">@Noel7</a>, give him my best. I'm good, I have my good and bad days but no complaints.&nbsp;</STRONG></P> Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:13:43 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954468#M1123826 JaneMarple 2017-07-27T18:13:43Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954477#M1123828 <BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><BLOCKQUOTE><HR /></BLOCKQUOTE><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT size="3">Hi <A href="https://community.qvc.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/10138" target="_blank">@Laura14</A>&nbsp; I agree with you. Bill Gates has done a lot of good, and Elon Musk wants to revamp the world, lol.</FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT size="3">Musk is designing an underground 29 minute trip from Washington DC to NYC... by car.&nbsp; <img id="womansurprised" class="emoticon emoticon-womansurprised" src="https://community.qvc.com/i/smilies/16x16_woman-surprised.png" alt="Woman Surprised" title="Woman Surprised" /></FONT></P><HR /></BLOCKQUOTE><P><a href="https://community.qvc.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/8788">@Noel7</a>&nbsp; Underground? &nbsp;We have enough tunnels under water in the Northeast. &nbsp;I'll sit my butt on the hour train ride. &nbsp;And as a local, I hate to tell Mr. Musk but you drive nowhere in that part of the country in 29 minutes. &nbsp; <img id="smileyvery-happy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyvery-happy" src="https://community.qvc.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-very-happy.png" alt="Smiley Very Happy" title="Smiley Very Happy" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</P> Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:15:29 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954477#M1123828 Laura14 2017-07-27T18:15:29Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954508#M1123838 <BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><a href="https://community.qvc.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/85876">@golding76</a> wrote:<BR /><P>I am very pleased by the direction of <EM>The Washington Post</EM> during these difficult times. &nbsp;That newspaper is lighting the way.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>In truth, I was at first put off when Jeff Bezos purchased it, but in his first interview posted in the newspaper, he impressed me with his thoughts that a revered institution must "stay young" in order to thrive and continue. &nbsp;When I read his insights in that interview, my thinking changed.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>On his watch, democracy will not die in darkness. &nbsp;He is the right man at the right time to own the <EM>Post.</EM></P><HR /></BLOCKQUOTE><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT size="3">Thank you for mentioning that <a href="https://community.qvc.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/85876">@golding76</a>&nbsp; I knew he had taken over WaPo but I haven't seen the interview, I'll look for it.</FONT></P> Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:28:51 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954508#M1123838 Noel7 2017-07-27T18:28:51Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954513#M1123839 <P>Noel, it appeared&nbsp;in September of the year he purchased it, if I recall. &nbsp; I tried to retrieve it and could not find it. &nbsp;Loved that interview so much that I cut it out and stuck it on one of the walls of my cubicle, after yellow-highlighting the wisdom he offered. &nbsp;Amazing.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Offhand, I don't recall what year he bought the <EM>Post</EM>.</P> Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:31:17 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954513#M1123839 golding76 2017-07-27T18:31:17Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954528#M1123846 <BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><a href="https://community.qvc.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/85876">@golding76</a> wrote:<BR /><P>Noel, it appeared&nbsp;in September of the year he purchased it, if I recall. &nbsp; I tried to retrieve it and could not find it. &nbsp;Loved that interview so much that I cut it out and stuck it on one of the walls of my cubicle, after yellow-highlighting the wisdom he offered. &nbsp;Amazing.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Offhand, I don't recall what year he bought the <EM>Post</EM>.</P><HR /></BLOCKQUOTE><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks again <a href="https://community.qvc.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/85876">@golding76</a>&nbsp; I'll look for it.&nbsp; I agree, the WaPo has really changed, closer to what it used to be.</P> Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:35:39 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954528#M1123846 Noel7 2017-07-27T18:35:39Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954539#M1123849 <P><FONT size="2"><STRONG>"The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past - no matter how good it was."</STRONG></FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT size="2"><STRONG>These were Bezos's words that leaped out at me from that interview. &nbsp;I found them mixed up with other quotes. &nbsp;Now to find that interview.</STRONG></FONT></P> Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:40:24 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954539#M1123849 golding76 2017-07-27T18:40:24Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954543#M1123851 <BLOCKQUOTE><HR /><a href="https://community.qvc.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/85876">@golding76</a> wrote:<BR /><P><FONT size="2"><STRONG>"The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past - no matter how good it was."</STRONG></FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT size="2"><STRONG>These were Bezos's words that leaped out at me from that interview. &nbsp;I found them mixed up with other quotes. &nbsp;Now to find that interview.</STRONG></FONT></P><HR /></BLOCKQUOTE><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thought provoking <img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://community.qvc.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /></P> Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:42:04 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954543#M1123851 Noel7 2017-07-27T18:42:04Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954544#M1123852 <P>Found the interview! &nbsp;Here is the link to it. &nbsp;September&nbsp;2013 &nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>https://<A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/jeff-bezos-to-his-future-washington-post-journalists-put-the-readers-first/2013/09/04/33040228-15a9-11e3-a2ec-b47e45e6f8ef_story.html?utm_term=.27e81b1f15ae" target="_blank">www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/jeff-bezos-to-his-future-washington-post-journalists-put-the-readers-first/2013/09/04/33040228-15a9-11e3-a2ec-b47e45e6f8ef_story.html?utm_term=.27e81b1f15ae</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;I also loved "All businesses need to be forever young."</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:44:22 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954544#M1123852 golding76 2017-07-27T18:44:22Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954548#M1123854 <P>Wow that was fast <a href="https://community.qvc.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/85876">@golding76</a> !</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I'll read it now.</P> Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:43:40 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954548#M1123854 Noel7 2017-07-27T18:43:40Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954556#M1123856 <P><FONT size="3">Nuts, it won't let me in.&nbsp; I was a part of WaPo for years when my daughter lived in DC, now it's subscription only and just gives me access to three articles.&nbsp; </FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><FONT size="3">Maybe I can get it by way of my daughter, I'll come up with something <img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://community.qvc.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /></FONT></P> Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:47:28 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/JEFF-BEZOS-The-World-s-Richest-Man/m-p/3954556#M1123856 Noel7 2017-07-27T18:47:28Z