Mossberg: 5 Things I Learned From Jeff Bezos at Code

Last week, I interviewed Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on stage at our third annual Code Conference. It wasn’t my first such public conversation with Bezos — we had done an earlier interview in 2008 at the D conference, the predecessor to Code. Bezos joked that he appeared at our conferences "every eight years like clockwork." Back in May 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that. This time, the scope of Bezos’s big ventures and interests was so broad that it couldn’t be contained in the allotted 60 minutes.