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Sam Walton: Made in America
Biography
Walmart founder Sam Walton's autobiography, dictated in the final year of his life. Codifies the operating principles — frugality, a bias for action, a willingness to swipe the best ideas of competitors — that Bezos folded directly into Amazon's leadership culture. Stone's reporting in The Everything Store shows Bezos handing the book to early hires with key passages already underlined.
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Farnam Street, citing Brad Stone's The Everything Store, documents that Bezos pressed copies of Walton's autobiography on early Amazon hires with passages on borrowing competitors' best ideas already underlined.
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