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Washington Post reporters tweeted out Bezos quotes from the question and answer he did with the staff.
Here are the two that I found most interesting.
He doesn't want the Washington Post to be 100% ad-supported because then the advertiser becomes the customer. The reader should be the number one customer, according to Bezos.
On competition: JB worried abt any product that's 100 percent ad-supported, because then you "start thinking your customer is advertisers."
- ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) September 4, 2013
Taking this out more broadly to Bezos' day-job in technology, it suggests he has a low opinion of Google and its priorities since Google is all ad-supported.
The other good one was about innovation: "Stubborn on vision, flexible on details." Previously, we've heard that Bezos says the people who are often right are the people that are willing to change their minds.
Essentially, it means you have an idea of where you want to go, but you're not rigid about how to get there.
JB recipe for innovation: "Stubborn on vision, flexible on details."
- ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) September 4, 2013
Disclosure: Jeff Bezos is an investor in Business Insider through his personal investment company Bezos Expeditions.