Amazed at how hard people were willing to work for Amazon.com

Been reading a spate of management books. First I read a book by Ben Horowitz (one of the early employees at Netscape and a well-known venture capitalist), The Hard Thing About Hard Things. And now I'm reading Brad Stone's history of Amazon.com: The Everything Store.

What I'm struck by, in reading both of these books, is how hard people are expected to w…