A collection of 23 years of Jeff Bezos’s writing to be published in November
Jeff Bezos is the most important business leader of our time, and if you want to know how he got that way, you can find it in the very first letter he wrote to shareholders in 1997. Focus on the long term; obsess over customers; make bold not timid choices; set a high bar in hiring; and you will create “an enduring franchise.”
Ever since, Bezos—modeling Warren Buffett—has laid out his business thoughts each year in clear terms in his annual letter to shareholders. Until now, no one has thought to pull those letters together into a book.But today, PublicAffairs and Harvard Business Review Press are announcing plans to publish Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos, which brings together 23 years of annual letters.