Fireside Chat with Jeff Bezos | Shah Rukh Khan, Zoya Akhtar | Amazon Prime Video

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founder, ceo and chairman

jeff

bezos

now it's up to you for the next 30 minutes or so thank you very much mandira ladies and gentlemen welcome to this

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a big round of applause for

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and a bigger round of applause for a most of the people who work for

jeff

i asked what is the best thing about jeff when i spoke to the team about a week ago and they said his laugh has the most infectious, beautiful, honest laugh in the world, thank you jeff. for making us laugh, making us feel good and for your laugh, thanks for surprising us, so how has it been jeff, you have been in Mumbai for a day in Delhi, you have been travelling, we saw you flying kites, yes in Makassan .

Flying was fun, but the kids told me the right way to do it was that I needed to have glass on my string so I could cut all the other kites, but we didn't do that, but it was any day you could fly. a kite, it's a good day, so my trip to India started well with some kite flying and I saw some of your photos at Raj's guard, Gandhi monument, Gandhi Samadhi, how was that so significant ? There is a man who really changed the entire world. he taught the principles of non-violence, he is recognized everywhere and it was a great honor to be able to go there and lay a wreath and I want to know if you think Gandhiji and his philosophy of non-violence yes, is it more relevant now?

I think it will be relevant forever um and it's one of those things that everyone knows is true and yet somehow it's very difficult to achieve. Well, wonderful and tell me, Jeff has been here several times before. This is the first time in Mumbai. It's my first time in Mumbai. I've been to India, this is my fourth trip to India, but my first time to Mumbai and I always wanted to come to Mumbai because the guy who runs Amazon India, Ahmed, who is sitting here at the front table, I know him. amit for 20 years and over 20 years i have heard little stories about his father and every time i hear a story about amit's father i get more and more intrigued and i want to meet him and he is one of these guys you know ahmed has done All these incredibly impressive things in his life and somehow I get the impression that Ahmet's father is not at all impressed by all these things and so the more I learn about Amit's father the more curious I get and this has been going on for two decades and tomorrow.

In the evening I will be able to have dinner with Ahmed's father. I hope Amit dad is impressed with Jeff, special guest here. Lauren. Welcome to India. Thanks for being here. Priya. It was wonderful

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ting with you backstage. And tell me, have you seen any noticeable changes in India other than traffic when you last came away from the trap, you know it's interesting, um, so I guess the first time I came to India was about 11 years ago. , I don't know if I have seen perceptible changes of great magnitude. What I would really say is that I notice that there are certain things that look the same to me and I love those things.

One of the things I notice every time I come here is that there is a lot of energy here, dynamism and color. The word I would use to describe it is that the whole place seems so full of life and everywhere you go, everything you do and the diversity of India. When I come here, I have never seen a more diverse place in all the places I travel in the world. Nowhere else. diverse than India, so the energy of self-improvement every time I come here I find that the people I talk to are focused and interested in being better tomorrow than they are today, everyone here seems to be focused on self-improvement, so when I come in I get here, I get a boost of energy.

I come back and say, "Wow, you know it's so alive here." Yes, you will work overtime at Amazon when he returns and you will come looking for diversity and dynamism. Let's do business. Did you think online retail would be like this? Oh, no, so you know, when I started Amazon it was 25 years ago. I started Amazon in 1994. When I went to see investors, the first question I had to answer is what is the Internet? None of my investors had ever heard of the Internet and the idea I had in mind was to build a bookstore. I realized that we could build a store that had all the books printed in any language, print or out of print, and I could do that online, it would be impossible in a physical store, that was the founding idea of ​​Amazon, but did I expect what would happen today?

No, you know, we started. I was on Amazon when I was a person. Me when I was 10. people when it was a hundred people, when it was a thousand people and today when you know over 700,000 people and approaching 70,000 people here in India, so no, I didn't predict that and in fact, I think if anyone had predicted he would have had to be immediately institutionalized in a psychiatric facility because it is not a normal thing to have happened. My dream when I started with Amazon was that one day we would be able to afford a forklift so it's been a really fun journey for me and the way I still tap dance at work I'm having a lot of fun so how many forklifts do you have now?

What's that? How many forklifts do you have? I have no idea that is an uncountable number of forklifts. wonderful what you're saying and it's very inspiring to hear you talk and learn about a concept that the whole world and investors didn't even know about and start 25 years ago from that, but when you were six years old, yes or seven or eight yes, what did you really want to be? I mean, of course, how did you know then? Well, it's so funny that I had it, so when I was a kid I went through so many stages, I think when I was in first grade, so how?

How many years are you in first grade? You're like six or seven years old in first grade. I wanted to be an archaeologist and that was before Indiana Jones, so it's not that and me and then I wanted to be a lot of different things, but in the end I really wanted to be. be a physicist and I went to university to study physics and halfway through I realized that I was never going to be a great physicist so I started studying computer science and computer science which I really fell in love with and it became It's a real passion for me and that's how I ended up working at Amazon.

Okay, you want to ask him. I want to know if I mean, of course, borrowing everything that is illegal. Is there something you don't sell on Amazon?, something we don't sell, or something you tried to sell and didn't. Nothing you can do works. There are things we tried to sell that didn't work. We are trying to sell a phone. Call the fire department. We worked on it for four years and no one bought it. I think my mother bought one. and I don't think she would be that happy about it um but it is but there are no things there are things that we deliberately don't sell we don't sell guns we don't sell tobacco uh there are things that we don't sell but and we make deliberate decisions about those things, but other than those things, we try to sell everything that anyone could want to buy and we're trying to make it as convenient as possible for the people you know in the early 21st century.

We're all busy, everyone in this room is busy and if you can save them time. people, let them spend more time with their families and friends and doing the things they really enjoy, then you will be giving them a real service Well, yes, it is very convenient Being online, you are all so busy When was the last one. time you bought in a physical store? Yes, in a physical store. What do you think is the future of physical stores? But when was the last time you went to a physical store? physics well I go to the supermarket even though we sell groceries sometimes I go to the supermarket because I enjoy it um no I'm not a good cook but I like to cook a little so I go to the store.

I'm a very inefficient shopper because when I get to the supermarket I don't know where anything is so I walk down the aisles and I don't have a plan but I'll make some kind of food and I'll make a dinner so yeah probably the last time I went to a physical store was for shopping. In fact, today I went to a physical store. I went to a store I have in space. I went to a small store. I forgot it. The word is and it was an amazing experience is this little store and they are also a pick up point for Amazon packages.

We have a complete program. We have thousands of these points of presence now where they do their regular business, but then also. providing a place where people can come pick up their parcels and I talk to this young man who helps his parents run the store and about how having that extra source of income has really improved their lives. It was a very moving experience. The last time I was in a store today, okay, you should ask him this. When were you in a store? That is a good question. Shopping. I want to know. I see.

I'm going to plug in my own product. Yes, I do everything. buy books on Amazon, thank you, I knew I liked you right away. My groceries are one big basket and I have a confession to make, don't do this, but my underwear I'm still not sure about showing up online. It's a boy. What you know is that you don't say your size or the things inside to know. Well, I want to know if you buy on Amazon. Yeah, and if you have something about the service that you don't like, yeah, then you just pick up the phone and call your team of 700,000 people and tell them I don't like this, change this or you know what I do, so no.

I do this, it doesn't happen that often, but if I get a delivery that I don't like, maybe I don't like the package or something, we have regular senior executive team meetings and I bring the box to the meeting and when I walk in I haven't done This has been going on for a while, it's been a while, but when I bring in a everyone in the room says oh no, he's bringing in a box because it's always some problem, but actually the way I get feedback is mainly through my email address. email, it's very well known and I keep it well known and I receive hundreds and hundreds. of emails every day from customers and they always have something interesting to say when something goes wrong because we have hundreds of millions of customers around the world and no matter how good we are, we can still be better, you can always be better, customers They have a divine discontent and they teach you if you listen to the customers, so we keep an eye on that and we see patterns and we can find places where it's not working, something is wrong and that's how I really get customer feedback and often I do. you know in capital letters. angry, you ruined my son's birthday because the gift didn't arrive on time and we took it and what you really want to do is take that's an anecdote, it's just one example, but you need to find the root cause of what went wrong. within the system, how did this happen?

Because then you can fix it for everyone, so that particular problem never happens again. You don't just fix the symptom, you have to fix the root cause and that has been the secret to our operational success for 20 years. Most of the people here, Jeff, are from many of them that I see, they are from the film industry and it was very encouraging when Amazon started creating original content, yes, and the filmmakers Zoya Kabir Khan, this is a pompous group of people , I do not tell you. Believe me, you just started with Amazon Prime for three years, you'll find out, okay, so we don't think of our movies as just products, you know that well, so there's a very clear demarcation, you know, some of them think that we make a movie for creative fun, yes, for its art, yes, oh yes, this one is for business, we don't belittle it, but we clearly demarcate it, yes, so we know this girl, this artist boy, we won't win the money this is. for money now you like original content the company likes original content a lot what's your stance on it are you still that person who says no, I'm going to do this for creativity, art, forget them, get out of the business, No, I'm doing this just for business or is it a combination of both and you say just put on a lot of stuff, let someone come into the store and find whatever they want.

I think this is a great question, it's actually something we debated and I think. If you look at the best things in the world, they do both and I think this is a golden age of television, so when you look at, you know, TV shows today, the really good TV shows are in terms of quality. . as good as the best movies have been and now you are getting the best storytellers to come to television, you are getting the best actors to come to television now, we are one of the great storytellers that are here, thanks for the help and this is very important when you can get the best people because it's you, this is one of those businesses where the viewer is always looking for something a little bit new and you can never find a formula because as soon as you find a formula, it's not new anymore, they are always looking for something a little bit new, so you really need human ingenuity, you need people, the storytellers need to be in touch with the zeitgeist and what I want Amazon studios to be.

Around the world I want us to be known as the most talent-friendly studio in the worldand the reason you should give that thanks is because at the end of the day it is the talent that makes those stories, the storytelling, the oldest thing there is. We humans have been doing it for thousands and thousands of years, long before written language existed, before there was any medium to transmit it, people sat around and told stories to each other and that's how we teach each other things. to others and we learn from stories. We learn from fiction We learn from fiction because we can live an alternative life.

At that moment you look at this and you learn. It can be fun. It can be action. It can be funny, it can be comedy, but the best things take those elements and teach something, there is something there that you stay with and are inspired by and it doesn't matter if it's a comedy-drama, whatever it is. You're going to walk away with something and there has to be lightness, you know you can't look at something that's just heavy and you say, oh my God, you know I want to kill myself now there's got to be that gesture too, there's got to be someone who will bring you to light. and I let you breathe a little, so this and this is so hard to do, that's why there are so many bad movies and so many bad TV shows, because it's there, it's one of the hardest things that What humans do is tell.

Fascinating and inspiring stories, but when you do it right, it is a lever that can change the world. Are you a competitive producer? Sorry, I'm making you talk too much. Oh, you're giving me water. Yes that's fine. Look, and he affirms that. People in this industry are pompous. I do not believe you. I was talking to him backstage and he's one of the most humble people I've ever met. It's just because my last few films didn't do well. I'm sorry, what were you asking? Are you a competitive producer or am I a competitive producer? I'm not talking about business, I'm talking about creativity.

Would you watch a movie or show on another platform like the one you described, which is brilliant and would be like? Why don't I have this? Well, I regret it. I mean, we've rejected things that were so good. I wish we hadn't rejected them, but we've also picked up things that other people rejected. made them great and the truth is that storytelling is infinite if I tell a good story it doesn't make your story bad there is no um this is this these are not substitute products you know um so I don't I feel like you get the best results with the storytelling by trying to make sure other people's stories are worse than yours.

This is one of those things where there can be a lot of good stories in the world that you're actually competing with and not against. others are competing against this simply because of the complexity of how difficult it is, that's why you all have seen this. If you are in the entertainment business you can, there are movies and TV shows where you know the people involved and each of them. people are talented and yet the end product is bad, it happens and because there's a bit of a mystery to it, we don't know how to do it, it's perfect and that's what makes it so fun because there's an artistic element to It's Not science, what are you watching now?

I just watched the fourth season of The Expanse, which is an Amazon show, it's a sci-fi show set in space, it's a show that Amazon picked up from the sci-fi channel and it's fantastic. They were canceling it, it didn't work on the broadcast, but it's working very well on the broadcast, so I'm very happy that we picked up the show and, by the way, we made it better. Season four is the best season of the extension, it's incredible. but I saw the whole thing in one weekend. It's good that you started Prime Video in India three years ago.

Yes, since I am a small part of this and the company too. Thank you. Thank you. I just want to know how it is analyzed. How is it working for you in India? It's working very well, in fact, if we look, in India alone, our, our, the number of hours watched in the last two years has increased six times, we are doing the Amazon.

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Prime Video is working well around the world it is working well in Japan it is working well in Germany it is working well in the US it is working well in South America it is working well everywhere but it is not really working it is working there is no place where it is working better than in India and it is really incredible what is happening and it drives it because it is the Prime membership program from a business point of view.

We also like the business results because it drives people to join Prime and then once they have joined Prime they enjoy fast and free shipping, so they also buy a lot of products from us, so it is a vehicle to create fantastic content and from a business point of view it works for us too, so we love it, we're doubling down. I just made the decision to double our investments in Prime Video here in India, you know, before I met Jeff. I understood that he would be a very busy person. He is a very busy person.

You are flying from one place to another managing so many things. things, so many people around the world look at investors, look at clients, but for a person who is so busy, he is the calmest and happiest person I have ever met in my life, thank you for being so cool, I wanted to ask you, uh, because I suddenly realized, while I was chatting with you, what do you think? Let me ask Zoya first. Is there anything you think is a pure waste of time? For me, unlike Amit, sleeping is a waste of time. I feel like it's a waste of life.

I don't sleep, I sleep, yeah, yeah, so I don't sleep because I think it's a waste of time. What do you think is a waste of time? So I want to ask Jeff what the biggest waste of time he thinks is. I think I'm the champion of psychopathic fantasy. As we call it tired of fantasy, I guess I'm sorry, sorry, my French kiss on the butt is a huge waste of time. I think you could spend that time really, uh, honing your craft, yeah, honing your skills, yeah, I guess, so you think ass licking is a waste? of time polish apples polish apples the best way to put things it's hard to disagree with that um look, there are a lot of things that are a waste of time, you know, when you think about your life, I think I often say to the people to work with them if you can do it because people have very high standards for how they want their work life to be and I said, look if you can make your work life where you enjoy half of it, it's an incredible home because very few People achieve that because the truth is that everything comes with overhead, that's the reality, everything comes with parts that you don't like.

You could be a Supreme Court justice and there will still be parts of your job that you don't like. Be a university professor and will continue to be so. You have to go to committee meetings and you have to do it. You know every job comes with parts you don't like and we have to say that's what part of it is like. and not resent those pieces or try not to, but also try to minimize them. I tell senior executives that they should have the least amount of stress. You know there is a strange idea, I think false, that CEOs I am a CEO.

There is this false idea that CEOs are under the most stress, well I see I wonder why you are in charge, why don't you delegate the stress, it's your choice, so you have to figure out how to set up your life in such a way that I can minimize things and I find that people don't dislike hard work, what people don't like and what is out of control, like they can't control their life, they can't control their environment, this happens to me. When I go over schedule, I hate it. being too scheduled I want some time to be able to think and free myself we all have the same amount of time in the world no one has more time than anyone else and when you become a very successful person one of the things that you start to overcome scheduled you have this event you had to agree to do this and maybe last night you said why I agreed to do this I have to go on stage tomorrow I wish I was really with my family and you know or I hope maybe it's not this In this case, let's say you like this one, but in general that kind of things happen so you have to take care of your time and try to be a little flexible, so for me it's not a waste of time, but I like to have some freedom. of movement uh, instead of having every minute of every day scheduled, yeah, we're making sure this

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chat is seven minutes longer, we're going to pack it up quickly, ask your questions quickly, I'm sure you've been asked this 500 times, but What's your good advice for someone at the beginning of their career at the beginning of their career, well, for a young person starting their career, I think there's probably a lot of things, some of them are very well known and people have heard them. many times.

It is still true one of those things that you should always focus on, that a young person should find something that they are passionate about and that is not going to surprise anyone, it is a clear thing to do, it is very difficult if you don't love it. your job you're never going to be good at it, I think the other thing I would suggest to any young person, even before starting their career, is to really think about their options because I meet young people and when I was young I had I made this mistake too .

You can focus a lot on your gifts, so everyone has gifts. You know that you have gifts and you have things that were not given to you. Maybe you are extremely beautiful. Maybe you're extremely good at math. There are many things that can be given to you, but those things can confuse you because they are not the things that build your life, it is your choices that build your life, not your gifts, you can celebrate your gifts, be proud of them, be happy. Don't actually be proud of them, celebrate with them, but you can't be proud because they are gifts that were given to you, you didn't earn them, you can only be proud of the things you earn, etc.

I grew up and began to realize that I was not proud of my gifts. I was always good at school. School was always easy for me and I was always proud to be a great student. I got A's in all my classes. I was good at math. All that and I thought that was me, but it's not true, those are the things that are gifts. What was difficult for me was deciding to work hard, deciding to use my gifts in certain ways, challenging myself to do things I didn't do. I don't think I can put myself in uncomfortable situations that we all go through.

I would tell a young person that they can choose a quiet and comfortable life or they can choose a life of service and adventure, which of those when you are 90 years old? years, are you going to be more proud of the service and adventure for all young entrepreneurs? There is a company, a concept very close to your heart. Zoe and I started reading it a week ago, we watched some

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s and I don't know if many. people know, we would like you to talk about the blue origin, oh yes, what is it, how did it start and what is your view on it.

Well blue origin is my space company and I've been interested in space since I was a five year old kid I saw neil armstrong and buzz aldrin step on the surface of the moon and I think it's important for humanity to expand into the solar system I think it's important for this planet we have a very small planet and humanity No one has become very big who doesn't believe in climate change, you know, 20 years ago, maybe you could excuse people for wondering if it's real. There is so much evidence today that people who don't believe in the problem of climate change really do.

They're kidding themselves: It's a big problem and one of the ways that there are a lot of things we have to do about climate change, but in the long run one of the things we have to do if we want to continue to have a civilization. dynamic and a dynamic species is We need to use the almost infinite resources of space and we can do it, but we need a new generation of entrepreneurs who can access space and the infrastructure does not exist, so the analogy that I would offer you is that on the Internet what I've watched for the last 20 years and been a part of that on the Internet.

Mark Zuckerberg in his bedroom could create this half-trillion-dollar market cap company called Facebook in space. Nowadays, it is impossible for someone, a college student, to be in his dorm room. create a large space company because the price of entry is too high, it starts at hundreds of millions of dollars and goes up from there, that's why blue origin work our work we want to build reusable space vehicles that reduce the cost of access into space to such a degree that the next generation of kids can start space companies in their bedroom and we can have something dynamic and then once that happens we will start moving all the heavy industry and the polluting industry, everything that will be moved to space. space and we can divide the earth into residential and light industrial zones and don't forget this is the good planet we have been to all of them with robotic probes this is the only good one so we have to take care of it talking about the plant. just signed the climate commitment, yes, and the environment is of utmost concern and importance at the moment, yes, quite positive, a big steppositive, can you tell us a little more about this?

Well, the climate commitment is a very simple commitment, it is difficult to achieve, but simple to understand is to meet the goals of the Paris agreement 10 years early, so the goals of the Paris agreement must be met by the year 2050, so that when you sign the climate commitment you agree to meet those goals by the year 2040. It is difficult but it can be achieved and requires collective action and one of the things that a company like Amazon can do because we are a large company, if Amazon had 500 employees and we signed the climate commitment, that would be good, but it would not be like that.

To move the needle with a company of Amazon's scale, we can use our scale, our reach and our global footprint to really move the needle because it's not up to us to deliver on the climate commitment, we can't do it alone, we have to do it. cooperation and collaboration of all our supply chain partners, our delivery partners, everyone who needs to help, we need companies to build electric delivery vehicles for us, we just ordered a hundred thousand electric delivery vehicles, umWe are building electric rickshaws here in India, so it needs to be a collective action, but big companies can lead the way in that collective action.

I want to know, Jeff, where I started. Actually, are there any jobs? Wouldn't it be Amazon if it wasn't business related? Is there anything else that you started over at this age and stage and took on a different profession? Is there one that is close to your head? Today I would be very curious if If I were a young university student today, I would be very interested in biotechnology. I think biotechnology is a fascinating field that probably in the next 10 or 20 years there will be a golden age of biotechnology, one of the golden ages that is happening.

Right now, before our eyes there is also artificial intelligence and machine learning, so that is another field that I would be very interested in in my backup career. I'm a very good bartender, so if all else fails, you'll see me at the local bar. and I will be slowly making drinks, but they will be good, it will be good, that was your plan b, that was never a plan b, the real plan b, if Amazon hadn't worked out, I would be an extremely happy software programmer. Do you usually have a plan B? Have? I don't have plans B.

I don't really like plans B. I find plans B or um, they take you out of focus from plan A. Plan B should always be to make the plan the job you want. plan b no no, i'm going to take this away from jeff now plan b is to make the plan work, that's it, not anymore, plan b is not just for India, because that's who I am. I was chatting with you backstage, joey, are you superstitious? anything random you are I'm not I pretend I'm not superstitious I pretend to be very scientific but I'm actually a little superstitious I have a pair of lucky boots and I wear them every time the blue origin is your Texas cowboy boots and I use them, they are giant, they are like they reach here and they have red stars, they are very striking and I use them every time we launch our space vehicle and we only had one failure in since the beginning of the program and that is the only time we did not I wore the lucky boots, so I present to you the evidence, so it's quite a spectacle every time you launch a spaceship, you're in your boots, I'm wearing the boots. yeah yeah yeah so yeah I put on the lucky boots lucky boots so you got a superstition yeah but it's super random it's a kid I haven't done since I was a kid and I don't know I think my mom did this to me.

If I hit my head on someone else's head, I have to do it again, that's interesting, I just have to hit my head on that person again and because or you'll grow horns, it's random, but it is what it is, yeah , look, it seems to have worked for you yes, it's going well, it's been good, no complaints, I'll ask you um, okay, I'll ask you both who or how many are the most influential women in your life and yours influential, yeah, in their life um, I have four and they're watching the show, so they shouldn't, one of them, I mean, one of them isn't watching, hopefully, he's watching somewhere, mom, sister, wife and daughter, the four most influential women in my life, the most influential people in my life. my life was my grandparents and I have a my mother had me when I was 17 she raised me with the help of my grandparents and she was still in high school when she had me that was not right in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1964, but she I did an amazing job, but I was lucky because not only did I have her, but she married my father when I was about four years old.

He has been a big influence in my life, but my grandmother and grandfather were like a second set of parents to You and I, we learn different things from them because they are in a different stage of life and know different things. They are calm about certain things. It was a great gift for me. My grandfather had a ranch in Texas and I went through everything. I spent summers there from age 4 to 16 and he was the most self-sufficient person. He did all of his own veterinary work, everything I mean, and watched him solve problems and figure out how to do things without tools or resources. and you know, very small amounts of money, it was a great upbringing from a young age, so we're very similar to one of the things that I know people who have, they don't have great family situations and sometimes they break that cycle and they They are the ones who get ahead, those people are the ones for whom I reserve my greatest admiration.

My next question is uh, I don't even know if you're at that stage now and you told me as CEO that you're not. takes too much stress, uh, and I'll ask you this too, um, are there any kind of people? I don't know if you hire and fire people, but are there any types of people you would never hire to work for you? Hmm, interesting. question I don't like bad people bad people I mean I don't care about cruel people I don't care about ambitious people who are cunning who are intelligent I don't like bad people I don't like that energy Around me I don't like people belittle other people.

I would fire. It's okay, you're okay. He's fine with guys in boots. Yes. It's okay, it's okay. I only hire people who crash twice. OK. That's all. I'm fine. I have a job. Let me leave. I do this quickly. My problem. My problem is that I have paid Amazon enough. It's time for you to start paying me back. So you want to ask him something. Yes, I want to ask you both this because fortunately you both have a lot if you could. There is one thing you could have more of, what would be that thing you could have more of?

I mean, the obvious answer is time, you know, it's a time to do, I like time, no, I'm not efficient with my time because efficiency there's a built-in efficiency there's a built-in assumption when you're efficient and the built-in assumption is that you know where are you going and I like to wander because it is wandering that allows you to invent, explore and follow your curiosity, but wandering takes a lot of time and if I could have one more thing it would be more time for me. I learned this from Mel Brooks and I want more peace, peace, more riches, peace, more fame, peace, my name in history, that's what I want.

I want, okay, I think we are past your time that you talked about, the last question, uh, I don't know how many people know this in India, when sometimes you are investing money to create content, you say, choose your son and daughter in the movie happens sometimes for

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has acted in star trek that's true so next time you play my best role it's the best role here so how did that happen and is it going to happen? people here when they have to make content for you, that jeff shows up if you approve the script, I got that role literally begging, so me, me and I, and persistently, for years, I would say that they were making a new Star Trek movie and I would say.

I would like to be in the movie and they said no and then I told them I would like to be in that movie and they said no so I went ahead and by the way I also made it difficult for them because I had requirements I said can you do my makeup do me an alien no one will know it's me however I need it to be a speaking role it has to be a pivotal scene so my line can't be cut on the cutting room floor and so I had those conditions and they said no and finally , with quite a bit of begging, they finally said yes and I spent four hours with two men doing my makeup and I had one line and my only line is to speak normally and it was terrifying because the fantastic The young actress to whom I said that line had the most complicated scene of interpret.

She was speaking in a foreign language, which was very difficult to do. He did it wonderfully and then in the middle of it, it's like a 30-second monologue. To do in the middle of that, I put a universal translator on her and tell her to speak normally and then she seamlessly switches to English at that point and I knew they did it. We did the scene 20 times and I knew I was finally going to get it right. and I was going to slip up to talk normally but it didn't happen so it all worked out and you know it was a fun thing to do and I enjoyed it zoey, would you cast it in a movie, yeah, yeah, yeah? give him a speaking line, yeah, it has to be pivotal, I don't want to end up in the cutting room, okay, would you audition for it?

What would you do to audition for this role? Yes, of course, of course yes. I'm, I'm going there, I'm there now, ladies and gentlemen, wait, Japanese, now they want me to audition, Jeff time, Jeff time, we don't have time, we have to listen now, okay, now I'm intimidated, no, no, Okay, good night, okay, so the phrase is a movie that your brother directed and in which I acted. Well, and since you are so busy and we are so grateful for all of us, including Zoya and I, all backstage for giving us your valuable time, it is impossible to get a gentleman like this, who is so inspiring, so wonderful, telling us such nice anecdotes of his life and talking about business and with the young entrepreneurs and all the young people who are listening to this because their time is so valuable that it is difficult to capture it.

The line is in Hindi. after me in Hindi, yeah this is the alien language you have to speak well and we'll give you the universal thing, so it's jeff, go, jeff co, jeff co, okay, you were very kind, no, you're kind, marvelous. It means that not only is it difficult to catch Jeff and get his time, it's impossible, thanks guys, but he's been very kind, it's not impossible, he's been very sweet, thank you to all of us here and thank you from everyone for being so kind, so wonderful. a round of applause for Jeff, thank you, thank you very much.