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Jeff Bezos's 1997 Letter to Amazon.com Shareholders
- jonburs 15y agoHow the world has changed: "We established long-term relationships with many important strategic partners, including America Online, Yahoo!, Excite, Netscape, GeoCities, AltaVista, @Home, and Prodigy"
- angstrom 15y agoIf that's not a reminder of fleeting importance.
- TillE 15y agoAnd the consequences of failing to evolve. Netscape made a mess of its browser, and GeoCities could have conceivably become a social / blogging / personal site platform that we'd be hailing as the next big thing.
- burgerbrain 15y ago"GeoCities could have conceivably become a social / blogging / personal site platform that we'd be hailing as the next big thing." And the Canadians could have won the space race. I mean, in some possible alternative reality both could have happened, but the number of changes there would need to be is staggering. Geocities, as it existed in this reality, was always doomed to failure and ridicule.
- zaidf 15y agoFor all the heat yahoo gets, they are still doing reasonably well. There aren't that many billion dollar dot coms that survived the crash and moreover provided some real value.
- salemh 15y agoAs well as a very solid engineering department, despite the other structures surrounding the department.
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- js2 15y agoAnd his 1994 ad seeking Unix developers: http://groups.google.com/group/mi.jobs/msg/d81b6c1fa8f361fc http://groups.google.com/group/mi.jobs/msg/d81b6c1fa8f361fc