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Jeff Bezos chats with his younger brother, Mark, at the Summit conference in LA about finding work-life balance, overcoming failure, and not checking his email.

  • Amazon's CEO and founder Jeff Bezos joined his younger brother Mark Bezos at Summit 2017 in Los Angeles in early November to discuss life as kid and dish out advice to the entrepreneurial set.
  • Bezos revealed some surprising anecdotes: he spent his childhood summers working on a ranch with his grandfather and he never checks his phone at the dinner table.

Earlier this month, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos sat down with his younger brother, Mark, for a revealing conversation at Los Angeles' Summit 2017, a conference that gathers prominent thinkers focussed on entrepreneurship. The two brothers reflected on their family, the years they spent as children in Texas, and their grandfather, who figured as a source of inspiration for both. The elder Bezos brother, who founded the online retail giant now valued at $550 billion, dished out advice for entrepreneurs and recounted several amusing anecdotes from his childhood.

As a kid, Bezos spent his summers working on his grandfather's ranch in South Texas. Bezos describes his grandfather as an introspective man who was infinitely resourceful and self-reliant, two qualities which Bezos believes have vastly contributed to Amazon's success as a company.

Bezos' younger brother also made a point to dispel one pervasive myth about his tech mogul sibling. Contrary to what you might believe, Bezos isn't really on his phone all that much. As it turns out, the founder of Amazon is exceptionally laser-focused. As a kid in Montessori school, Bezos describes how teachers would have to physically move his chair from one task station to the next in order to get him to focus on the next assignment. Those qualities still define Bezos as an adult: He's not a fan of checking his phone at the dinner table and he's not big on multi-tasking either, even when it comes to checking his email: "[Multitasking] bothers me," Bezos said, "If I'm reading my email, I want to be really reading my email."

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