There's two ideas in this book that are repeated. Marcus Wallenberg Jr. prioritized investing in

technology and surrounding yourself with great people. That is actually something that multiple

generations of the Wallenbergs would repeat. And I've been telling you lately that there's a lot of

similarities that I noticed between people like Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos and Jensen Wong last week.

And now I would add Marcus Wallenberg Jr. to that list as well. And it starts with Jeff Bezos and Jensen Wong last week. And now I would add Marcus Wallenberg Jr. to that list as well.

And it starts with Jeff Bezos's very first shareholder, where Jeff Bezos emphasizes the

importance of having the very best team.

He wrote, setting the bar high in our approach to hiring has been and will continue to be

the single most important element of Amazon's success.

You will hear Marcus Wallenberg Jr. say something very similar to that.

Jeff's focus on talent is very similar to this quote that I actually found that Steve Jobs gave

in an interview that very same year in 1997.

This is what Steve said.

He says, I think I've consistently figured out who the really smart people were to hang around with.

You must find extraordinary people.

The key observation is that in most things in life, the dynamic range between the average quality and the best quality is at most two to one.

But in the field that I was interested in, I noticed the dynamic range between what the average person could accomplish

and what the best person could accomplish was 50 or 100 to 1.

Given that, you were well advised to go after the cream of the cream.

You want to build a team that pursues the A plus players.

That is exactly what Ramp did. Ramp has the most talented technical team

in their industry. Becoming an engineer, Ramp is nearly impossible. In the last 12 months, they

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