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Go read the book "Everything store" and come back. You're not the first one who's been saying stuff like this about him. While reading the book I was amazed how
by volaski 11y ago
Go read the book "Everything store" and come back. You're not the first one who's been saying stuff like this about him. While reading the book I was amazed how the entire history of the company is full of doubters saying he's doing it wrong and the company will fail. Yet time after time the doubters were proved wrong, and after two decades its growth is only accelerating. Sure he's not perfect and how the company treats employees is far from ideal, but he definitely is not a blind pathetic CEO.
- megablast 11y agoYou could almost be talking about Steve Jobs there.
- nine_k 11y agoIt just so happened that Jobs's companies were mostly highly (sometimes obscenely) profitable, while Amazon stays very near profitless for last ~20 years, having to re-invest all its proceedings.
- eachro 11y ago"having to"? Bezos chooses to.
- manigandham 11y ago"Profit" is a very vague term in corporate finance. Just because they don't put the cash in the bank doesn't mean they're not a profitable company.
- grogenaut 11y agoYeah next went gangbusters
- haswell 11y agoIn the end, this comes down to a question of ends justifying the means. I don't think anyone can argue with the fact that the company has done very well in many ways. So has Apple. We've learned that both Jobs and Bezos weren't/aren't very good people to work for. Maybe it's naive of me to think this way, but I'd like to think that companies can be wildly successful without being life sucking and horrible in the process.
- vijayr 11y agoNo first hand experience, but I've heard/read this many times that Bezos, Jobs, Gates, Ellison etc aren't good people to work for. Are there any bosses of mega corporations that are good to work for?
- hueving 11y agoYou don't hear about this crap from higher ups at Google. Same for current Microsoft leadership for that matter.
- serge2k 11y agoPage fired all of Google's project managers at one point. There were good reasons he got moved out of the CEO job for a while.
- aikinai 11y agoEveryone who works for Larry Page (and Sundar) seems to be very happy still.
- conistonwater 11y agoWhat sometimes tends to happen is that people who are extremely skilled in one area can fool themselves into thinking that they are also skilled in some other area. Whether that's actually true or not is kind of random, but frequently enough they're just fooling themselves. It's a kind of inspired overconfidence, and not listening to doubters is a way to achieve that. The actual skills and intuitions they have may simply not have carried over, and it is their fault if they managed to fool themselves like that.
- Marazan 11y agoOr maybe Bezos personality is great for running an online retailer and bad for producing consumer devices. From personal experience The Kindle Fire is a dreadful device.