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> 1). CEO with delusions of grandeur who thought that Amazon was a direct competitor to their business and should not be given money. I mean, look at Netflix.
by dralley 7y ago
> 1). CEO with delusions of grandeur who thought that Amazon was a direct competitor to their business and should not be given money.
I mean, look at Netflix.
- redis_mlc 7y agoNetflix chose AWS because it was the only viable cloud at the time. (They used Azure for backups.) In fact, Netflix helped build AWS. There were daily long-term scheduled meetings with AWS developers to review new features and versions. In addition, the policy from mgmt. was that they were fine being mono-cloud, since if they changed their mind, they had the engineering resources to migrate whenever it made sense. Source: worked at Netflix.