Jeff Bezos explains why Thomas Edison and Walt Disney were heroes for him

Two people I always would read about were Thomas Edison and Walt Disney. Those were sort of my two biographical heroes. I've always been interested in inventors and invention. And Edison, of course, is not only the symbol of that. But the actual fact of that. I've always felt that there's a certain kind of important pioneering that goes on. From an inventor like Thomas Edison and then Disney. He also a real pioneer and an inventor in doing new things. But it seemed to me that he had this incredible capability. To create a vision. That he could get a large number of people to share. Because the things that Disney invented, like Disneyland, were such big visions that no single individual, unlike a lot of the things that Edison worked on. No single individual could ever pull them off. And Walt Disney really was able to get a big team of people. Working in a concerted direction.