IMDb Founder: Jeff Bezos's best advice & learnings from watching 15,000 films - Col Needham

 

Did you know that IMDb was one of the first 100 websites EVER? Yeah it's mad, and it's still going - and it's always in the top 50 most visited sites in the world.

Welcome to the mad world of IMDb Founder Col Needham, the movie buff you want to take to the pub to ask him all the trivia and best-of questions you can imagine.

But this is also a great business story. IMDb was one of the first ever acquisitions from Amazon, making Col one of Amazon's earliest employees.

He got to work alongside Jeff Bezos and in this episode we draw on his extraordinary insights.

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