Jeff Bezos on failure: You should learn from failure

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Jeff Bezos is one of the most successful people in the world. With Amazon, he founded a company that today contributes a significant part to many people’s everyday lives. But the self-made billionaire explains that failure is also important for great success.

• Jeff Bezos explains that you should view failure as an incentive to learn
• Amazon video game starts successfully
• Long waiting times and graphics card problems at New World

Failure is important for success

Everyone has had a failure at some point in their life. But failure is, according to former Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, an important part of being successful. During the re:Mars conference in 2019, the Amazon founder reportedly told his employees that big failures (in the billion dollar range) are needed “if we want to move the needle,” CNBC reports. Because only such failures would show that you are sticking with it hard enough. In a tweet on October 1, 2021, Bezos also stated that it is important to see an obstacle as an opportunity to learn something. It goes on to say: “Whatever your goals are, don’t give up, no matter how hard it gets,” said Bezos.

Amazon Game Studios

Amazon’s recent success supports the Amazon founder’s statement. Just a few months ago, Bloomberg published an article titled “Amazon Can Do Just About Anything—Except Video Games.” Eight months later, Amazon celebrated its first major success with a new video game. On September 28th, the game “New World” was released at eight o’clock German time. And the game started successfully. At its peak, over 913,000 players played simultaneously on the Steam platform, according to SteamDB. “After many failures and setbacks in video games, we have a success. I am so proud of the team for their perseverance. View setbacks as helpful obstacles that promote learning,” Bezos proudly said in his tweet.

Full servers at New World

However, the first few weeks of the new Amazon game are not entirely problem-free. Due to its high popularity in the gaming community, players experience long waiting times. Thousands of players sometimes wait in queues to get a place on a server. That’s why Amazon is currently working on adding more servers to the game, according to Amazon Watchblog. Another problem is compatibility with certain graphics cards. As a Twitter user reports, there is said to be a problem with how the game renders the images. While playing, owners of NVIDIA Geforce graphics cards, among others, had problems such as failures or shutdowns.

“The coming days are likely to be crucial for Amazon Games. The interest in New World is enormous, the fans want this game. The longer the problems last, the more interest will decrease,” explains Amazon Watchblog. How quickly the US company can fix the problems remains to be seen.

E. Schmal / editorial team finanzen.net

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