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Jeff Bezos has ‘two-pizza’ meeting rule Amazon still uses today

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Published 15:03 15 Jul 2024 GMT+1

Jeff Bezos has ‘two-pizza’ meeting rule Amazon still uses today

It's not as delicious as you might think.

Rikki Loftus

Rikki Loftus

The world’s biggest and richest entrepreneurs are known to have some pretty strange methods in their madness.

It was recently unveiled that Elon Musk has sold up his $130 million property portfolio in a bid to fund a colony on Mars.

Now, Musk says he lives in a modest three-bedroom house in Texas that is valued at around $45,000 but beforehand, he claimed that one of his mansions was haunted.

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The billionaire has a 'pizza rule' for his meetings (Taylor Hill/Getty Images)
The billionaire has a 'pizza rule' for his meetings (Taylor Hill/Getty Images)

Meanwhile, Bill Gates made headlines with eerie predictions he had made 29 years ago about the future of the tech industry.

Now, Jeff Bezos has people talking after his unusual meeting rule was revealed.

His ‘pizza rule’ might sound delicious, but it actually doesn’t have much to do with it at all and instead, it’s all about a different kind of dough.

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The Amazon boss likes to limit the number of meetings he has and won’t take part in one if two pizzas won’t feed the entire group.

He reckons that large meetings can waste a lot of time and time for him is, well, money.

Jeff Bezos won't take part in a meeting if there are too many people to feed with two pizzas (AzmanL/Getty)
Jeff Bezos won't take part in a meeting if there are too many people to feed with two pizzas (AzmanL/Getty)

The ‘pizza rule’ stems from the idea that no team should be larger than the amount of people that can be fed by two large pizzas.

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It’s ultimately because large meetings are really expensive and Bezos likes to be time and cost effective.

Of course, people in the meeting will be paid for their time so the more people that are involved, the more costly the meeting becomes.

It also means that those who are attending the meeting are taken away from their day-to-day roles and can’t get on with their current work.

If you can cut out anyone who isn’t needed to be in the meeting, it’ll lower the cost and also give those people the chance to focus on other important work.

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The Amazon boss still uses his meeting rule to this day (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
The Amazon boss still uses his meeting rule to this day (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Another option is to only have certain people in the meeting while they’re needed and allow them to leave after their subject of interest has been covered.

Eliminating as many unnecessary meetings as possible can also help to bring the cost down for the meeting which is why Bezos’ ‘pizza rule’ is still used widely at Amazon today.

While the meeting has nothing really to do with the Italian dish, it does make you wonder how many two margheritas could feed.

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If an age-old quote from Friends is anything to go by, it could be a meeting-of-one if ordering ‘The Joey Special’ - two pizzas.

Featured Image Credit: Michael M. Santiago/AzmanL/Getty Images
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