Are You Smarter Than Jeff Bezos?

You have heard the saying, “If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?”  I propose a new saying, “If you’re so rich, why are you so dumb?” which would be applied to Jeff Bezos and his lost bid to move Amazon’s second Headquarters to New York City.  Bezos is guilty of a key sales sin that truly great salespeople would never commit.
He did not fully understand and include all the factions that had a stake in the decision to allow the move.
As Politico noted, “Amazon thought it had locked down support for a new headquarters in Queens, New York by wooing a feuding mayor and governor. What it failed to anticipate was how the neighborhood’s politics would sweep it up in the growing split between establishment Democrats and the party’s insurgent progressive wing.”
“I do think Amazon misread New York. They assumed their consumer popularity translated into a free ticket to