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When [competitors are] in the shower in the morning, they're thinking about how they're going to get ahead of one of their top competitors. Here in the shower, we're thinking about how we are going to invent something on behalf of a customer.

Jeff Bezos

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Jeff Bezos
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 12
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