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There's also Woot.com - a company who's culture was a strange counterpoint. Amazon thought they understood it, messed it all around and now it's a sad parody o
by clutchdude 9y ago
There's also Woot.com - a company who's culture was a strange counterpoint.
Amazon thought they understood it, messed it all around and now it's a sad parody of the former site.
https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2014/july/matt-rutledge-woot-has-a-new-deal-mediocre-corporation/ https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2014/july/...
That particular bit about Bezos and the octopus sells it - You'll be fine if Amazon "gets" your company and it's culture. If not, well...
- jasonjayr 9y agoIt looks like the original Woot folks want to try again: https://meh.com/forum/topics/faq#q-whats-the-story-here-53a35376a524791409298487 https://meh.com/forum/topics/faq#q-whats-the-story-here-53a3...
- djsumdog 9y agoI was going to mention Meh. Their stuff is hilarious. And yep, it's the original Woot staff, long after they sold their baby to Amazon.
- grogenaut 9y agoIt's pretty well known internally to Amazon that the woot acquisition was handled terribly and that the food was strangled. It's held up as a what not to do now. Source I know some of the og woot folks and I work for a recently acquired subsidiary in the "strangle don't strangle" department. We're very cognizant of keeping what's good about our subsidiary and using what's good about super mega co and they let us. We're very much on the don't strangle side. It'll be interesting to see how this aquisition "GOes"
- puranjay 9y agoI remember Woot's founder, Matt Ruttledge, mentioning how he didn't get along with Bezos at all.