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Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
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- enraged_camel 6y agoEnd of an era. I wonder what he'll do next.
- baxtr 6y agoMars.
- lai 6y agoBuy all the bitcoin supply.
- virtualmachine7 6y agoThey could do one better and cheaper - start their own coin, make Amazon accept that (and no other coins) and it'd probable dwarf bitcoin in market cap.
- mc32 6y agoMaybe he’ll take a cue from Bill Gates and get involved in philanthropy. Alternatively he might get more involved in Blue Origin?
- igotsideas 6y agoHopefully, the former.
- JumpCrisscross 6y ago> Hopefully, the former Either one is a win for humanity.
- wolfhumble 6y agoSo now ONE person dictates what is a win for humanity?
- ignoramous 6y agohttps://www.bezosdayonefund.org/ https://www.bezosdayonefund.org/
- mssundaram 6y agoPerhaps Bill Gates truly has developed compassion for the less fortunate, however moving his money into the foundation is a very convenient tax strategy, and I suspect he enjoys the challenges and influence he has, and less so the warm fuzzies from helping people. (I anticipate this comment will not go over well, as it seems I must just not see the truth that Bill Gates is a perfectly benevolent being who has ascended from human qualities)
- acomjean 6y agoBill Gates was a ruthless business man, but through the influence of his wife/father/Warren Buffet or some combination, he's soften a bit and seems to have decided to give a lot away and convince others to do so as well. https://givingpledge.org/About.aspx https://givingpledge.org/About.aspx There's lots of weirdness in society about having the wealthiest having influence starting to approach government program status, but here we are. (perhaps they're trying to blunt the income inequality complaints, but maybe they really have come around to caring...)
- mssundaram 6y agoI can get behind the idea of his wife helping him to soften, but not his father, who was just as ruthless in his own profession
- mlyle 6y agoIt's actually the other way around: Buffett followed Gates' lead on large-scale philanthropy, designating the Gates Foundation as the benefit of his largesse. Yes, each man had long-standing intentions for philanthropy, but it really reached fruition together.
- Avalaxy 6y agoWhat does Bill Gates care about optimizing tax? He is old, isn't planning on giving his money to his children and he has so much money he wouldn't even be able to spend it if he wanted to. It makes no sense. Im pretty sure he does care about his legacy on the other hand.
- bobo_legos 6y agoI think he's probably bored at this point. Whats there really left to do at Amazon? AWS and the website are eating the world. He's 57. Why not at this point go play with his rockets and spend time inside that WaPo newsroom that he loves.
- catacombs 6y ago> spend time inside that WaPo newsroom that he loves. Investing in journalism is actually a very good thing.
- mmmeff 6y agoDefinitely. So many tax loopholes to exploit.
- catacombs 6y agoAh, yes. Because owning a news organization, one filled with people who can do investigations, presents numerous opportunities to avoid paying taxes.
- fakedang 6y agoEspecially if you can change the narrative from "evil capitalist who forces his workers to piss in buckets" to "pioneer O'Reilly tube colonist"
- Barrin92 6y agoAmericans adopt that narrative voluntarily when it comes to entrepreneurs, he doesn't need to interfere with the Wapo newsroom for that. (and to my knowledge hasn't).
- filoleg 6y agoWaPo has publicized quite a few articles critical of Jeff Bezos and Amazon, even after WaPo was acquired. So this is something that seems to be just another baseless "jeff bad" take.
- jeofken 6y agoHopefully, the latter
- crocodiletears 6y agoHopefully the latter. We've got an excess of billionaires trying to mould society with their vast sums of wealth. Blue Origin would be a great use of his time. Massive long-term benefit to humanity, few implications on global governance or the lives of most individuals. Or his own private charter city, so people have to consent to live in his world. Or he could blow it all on yachts, hookers and blow.
- sjg007 6y agoI don't understand why space rockets and lunar lander is important except if they help us clean our planet. It's a long bet on a long time horizon. But maybe it's a good way to spend government money.
- crocodiletears 6y agoImo, it's a good way to keep people who're functionally minor deities in terms of absolute power busy and somewhat productive for a long time.
- acomjean 6y agoHis ex gave away 4.2 billion last December FWIW. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/30/style/mackenzie-scott-prisclila-chan-zuckerberg-melinda-gates-philanthropy.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/30/style/mackenzie-scott-pri...
- anonAndOn 6y agoMaybe there's a little PR FOMO? The former Mrs. Bezos is making a name for herself as a very generous philanthropist [0]. [0]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/business/mackenzie-scott-philanthropy.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/business/mackenzie-scott-...
- afavour 6y agoI hope philanthropy, I expect space travel.
- carabiner 6y agoMaybe really take the reins of BO? The company has been floundering without strong leadership relative to SpaceX.
- pluc 6y agoBecome a supervilain/superhero. Not much else to do with that kind of money.
- darth_avocado 6y agorun for president, seems like a thing for Billionaires these days.
- akhilcacharya 6y agoHe’d be better at it than the last guy, a low bar though.
- remoquete 6y agoI think the odds are quite high.
- 1-6 6y agoIt's a good time for another CEO to take center stage at a different company. Any suggestions?
- sjg007 6y agoI think the CEO as influencer is on the wane and with antitrust and regulatory reform coming we will be looking more for politicians who can unite and provide social leadership. Trump took a lot of oxygen out of the room and now is a good time for up and comers like Buttieg and AOC.
- s3r3nity 6y agoHe mentioned a few focus areas: - Day 1 Fund - Bezos Earth Fund - Blue Origin - The Washington Post So a combination of philanthropy, crazy cutting-edge tech, and media. He'll still be pretty busy haha
- samizdis 6y agoFrom his email to staff: As Exec Chair I will stay engaged in important Amazon initiatives but also have the time and energy I need to focus on the Day 1 Fund, the Bezos Earth Fund, Blue Origin, The Washington Post, and my other passions. I’ve never had more energy, and this isn’t about retiring. I’m super passionate about the impact I think these organizations can have.
- aerophilic 6y agoI suspect he will focus on his space venture (blue origin)... but maybe that is wishful thinking. That said, I think it can use his focus more than anything else (and he is investing 1B/year in it)
- sjg007 6y agoTurn a lot of cash into rocket fuel.
- km3r 6y ago'?' After hours traders seem to like this move.
- bobo_legos 6y agoAlgos seem to be all over the place right now. But I think they're just confused by this news and the earnings report.
- bjtitus 6y agoKind of hard to tell how much the transition announcement is driving things given that they just announced predictably stellar Q4 results.
- dleslie 6y agoHe's becoming Executive Chair, so he's not leaving the picture entirely.
- htrp 6y agoAWS about to take over all those prime video projects
- GizmoSwan 6y agoTime to spend the cash. The big money had been made.
- 1-6 6y agoI think retirement is more of a time to ponder life. I doubt he's going to pull some big expenditure. He'll probably invest in multiple companies.
- GizmoSwan 6y agoI just posted a reference to his purchase of 0.4 billion dollar boat. He is retiring. Amazon is outcome of purchase of many many companies just like Microsoft. Gates is retired and Microsoft is still buying companies even hotels; anything and everything has been bought with the cash acquired from US's money printing machine.
- idownvoted 6y agoI doubt he's going to pull some big expenditure - with a net worth of 182BN USD there isn't really an item available that would be "a big expenditure".
- Jonnax 6y ago" Amazon is also announcing today that Jeff Bezos will transition to the role of Executive Chair in the third quarter of 2021 and Andy Jassy will become Chief Executive Officer at that time. “Amazon is what it is because of invention. We do crazy things together and then make them normal. We pioneered customer reviews, 1-Click, personalized recommendations, Prime’s insanely-fast shipping, Just Walk Out shopping, the Climate Pledge, Kindle, Alexa, marketplace, infrastructure cloud computing, Career Choice, and much more,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. “If you do it right, a few years after a surprising invention, the new thing has become normal. People yawn. That yawn is the greatest compliment an inventor can receive. When you look at our financial results, what you’re actually seeing are the long-run cumulative results of invention. Right now I see Amazon at its most inventive ever, making it an optimal time for this transition.” " Here's the quote.
- matmann2001 6y agoyawn
- kaszanka 6y agoAmazon did not invent customer reviews.
- foobarian 6y ago*on the web
- antoniobermuda 6y agoWasn't Netflix the first?
- vlovich123 6y agoAmazon started 3 years before Netflix did.
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- minimaxir 6y agoBezos email to employees: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/email-from-jeff-bezos-to-employees https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/email-from-jef...
- dang 6y agoWe've changed the URL to that from https://ir.aboutamazon.com/news-release/news-release-details/2021/Amazon.com-Announces-Fourth-Quarter-Results/default.aspx https://ir.aboutamazon.com/news-release/news-release-details.... Thanks!
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- astrojams 6y agoI worked for AWS for a few years under Andy. He's a good pick for CEO of that company.
- jgalt212 6y agowithout Andy (and AWS), I'd posit that Jeff would just be another regular old billionaire who'd own a sports team, but otherwise folks would not know much about.
- edanm 6y agoI'm pretty sure you're wrong. Most people have no idea what AWS is, but know what Amazon the consumer business is. AWS is only well known among tech circles.
- Axsuul 6y agoI think OP was alluding to the cash cow that AWS has become.
- mywittyname 6y agoI kind of agree. But without AWS, Amazon could never have become the Amazon that we know today. AWS brings in the vast majority of the profits (sometimes >100%) for Amazon, despite being a modest proportion of revenue (~10%). This is what generates the funding necessary for Amazon to do the crazy things that make Amazon amazing. Amazon - AWS = digital Walmart. Big and profitable, but not Amazon.
- dimator 6y agoI think gp means that bezos would not be a mega billionaire without aws. He would be like any other nameless CEO in the public's knowledge.
- bryanrasmussen 6y agowithout AWS would Amazon have been able to dominate?
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- dr-detroit 6y agoHes going to buy Mar A Lago and urinate on all the linens screencap this post
- ww520 6y agoWow. I still remember when Amazon started as an online bookstore selling books and people kind of laughed at the idea, and the time Amazon kept losing money and refused to post an earning and people got mad. Amazing long game.
- zhdc1 6y agoI was a (young) kid when I overheard a news report making fun of an internet bookstore calling itself Amazon. It's amazing what he's been able to do. Good for him.
- jl2718 6y agoInterestingly, it seemed at the time that books were just about the least exciting things being sold on the Internet, and the shipping costs looked fatal to the business. You could buy just about anything, and everybody was going out of business trying to compete on big ticket items like electronics and movies and games and beanie babies. Not much competition on books online (anybody remember the “Duwamish book store demo” from Microsoft?). It seems to me that he looked way out and thought about how things would be done 20 years hence, regardless of what made sense at the time, and chose to start on the piece of that future with the weakest competition.
- orev 6y agoShipping books was/is one of the cheapest things to ship, as they need minimal packaging, and the USPS offers a special media mail rate. This allowed him to work out all the logistics behind the scenes, and then make incremental improvements to handle other products.
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoThere was competition. Bookstacks.com had been in business with a telnet-only interface for more than a year before Amazon. As noted by others, the shipping cost-to-item-average-cost ratio is precisely why Jeff chose books to start with. But yes, he also looked way out (even if he couldn't see as clearly as some people seem to think he could).
- ceilingcorner 6y agoAs Exec Chair I will stay engaged in important Amazon initiatives but also have the time and energy I need to focus on the Day 1 Fund, the Bezos Earth Fund, Blue Origin, The Washington Post, and my other passions. I’ve never had more energy, and this isn’t about retiring. I’m super passionate about the impact I think these organizations can have.
- 1-6 6y agoAmazon Mobility?
- dr_dshiv 6y agoI remember meeting Jeff over snacks at the O'Reilly Etech conference in 2003. We talked about art, if I recall...
- javert 6y agoHe probably had enough, after all the nastiness coming from DC. For instance, being paraded in front of Congress committees so each member can get a little sound bite shitting on him. Truly, we didn't deserve Bezos. Maybe he's realized that.
- Beefin 6y agoDon't know why you're being downvoted, those interviews were vile. They were just probing for self-incriminating answers and when they didn't moved on.
- jl2718 6y agoThe CEO role comes with a lot of mundane responsibility (and potential liability) that I’m surprised he held onto for so long. I would expect a guy like Jeff to want to get on another rocket ship (unsure if literal or figurative).
- xpe 6y agoWhy do you think it is mundane?
- thinkling 6y agoHe had pushed a lot of it down to Jeff Wilke (retail business) and Jassy (AWS) but apparently wanted more time for other projects.
- paxys 6y agoIt is as mundane as they want it to be. It mostly comes off that way because the majority of CEOs are the MBA types. If you look at Steve Jobs, Elon Musk etc., their day to day involvement could hardly be called mundane.
- thinkling 6y agoWeren't Jassy and Wilke co-CEOs already? I guess Jassy was "CEO" of AWS and now gets to be (actual-) CEO of Amazon.com?
- whoknew1122 6y agoJassy was the CEO of AWS. I'm not sure what role he had regarding leadership of the entire company, but his title was CEO of AWS.
- saagarjha 6y agoI wonder if he doesn't want to be the one to deal with what looks like increased regulatory pressure…
- somethoughts 6y agoPerhaps following Larry and Sergey's Alphabet playbook - gracefully fade into the background so your legacy can be untarnished!
- Hankenstein2 6y agoEither doesn't want to or recognizes that anyone not him, i.e. not as polarizing, would be more effective.
- gamblor956 6y agoNote that Bezos announced that he will retire...in Q3 2021. Amazon uses the calendar fiscal year, so this means sometime Jul-Sep. AWS head will take over as new CEO.
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- d_silin 6y ago1.3 million employees, wow!
- iSloth 6y agoWould be interesting to know how they are split by geography and function
- greggyb 6y agoFunction should be obvious - the vast majority in fulfillment centers and logistics and customer service.
- waisbrot 6y agoAnd pay. With the discussion in other threads about whether corporations should be able to compete with nations, is Amazon's wealth-distribution better or worse than various nations?
- matsemann 6y ago> Today, we employ 1.3 million talented, dedicated people All those creating the value. Many of them having poor working conditions and living off social welfare programs. One guy at the top skimming everything. Is he really worth all those billions? Could he survive on a little less and share with those doing the work? Or is his contribution really more than all those million combined..?
- ngcazz 6y agoThe downvotes must mean that, as always, welfare is missing the point.
- mhh__ 6y agoAlthough I know what you mean, in Amazon's case the people making the "value" are paid very well. Its blunt but true, Amazon prints money from AWS not selling lightbulbs. Similarly, the idea that if you put 1.3 Million warehouse staff in a big room Amazon will come out the other side is really really stupid.
- paxys 6y agoIt was public knowledge that Bezos stopped running Amazon day-to-day a while ago. It was headed by the two execs under him (Andy Jassy for AWS and Jeff Wilke for retail). Jassy even had the CEO (of AWS) title. With Wilke announcing his retirement a few months ago, Jassy was the clear frontrunner to take over from Bezos. In hindsight I guess Wilke retired because Jassy was picked over him. The timing of the announcement is unexpected, but nothing else.
- libria 6y agoYes, a bit of shakeup at the top. Jassy now CEO, Dave Clark stepping into Jeff Wilke's role as head of retail. I assume Charlie Bell will step up as head of AWS.
- temp0826 6y agoListening to cbell rip someone apart in the weekly ops meeting while watching the #wtf peanut gallery whilst sipping my coffee are probably my fondest memories of working at AWS
- randallsquared 6y agoI'll try "Places I wouldn't want to work" for 400K, Alex.
- Spinnaker_ 6y agoIt's funny how differently people respond to that type of stuff. I grew up playing pretty competitive sports. Being ripped apart in front of my peers was a once a week occurrence for me for most of my life. I had no interest in doing it to anyone else, but it didn't seem like a big deal, and didn't bother me much. My first job was at a company where it happened a lot. I didn't realize how toxic it was until I started talking with co-workers who were having panic attacks from it.
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- wiremine 6y agoCrazy, he's one of those guys that you think will just be at the top forever. Hopefully the transition for Amazon is as (seemingly) seamless as the Steve Jobs/Tim Cook transition was for Apple.
- keanebean86 6y agoRetiring at 57 is pretty risky. Hopefully his savings hold out. He's looking at 30 more years of life. Personally I would be too cautious to leave this early. Edit: risking -> risky; fixed life sentence
- faangeng 6y agoYeah maybe he should've worked a few more years to shore up his net worth a bit, a 50% drop in the market might force him back to work
- genericone 6y agoHopefully he has enough saved up in his 401k, his situation may be better on traditional 401k vs roth.
- mywittyname 6y agoWhat a world we live in where a guy can work for 30+ years in Big Tech and still not be able to comfortably retire.
- elindbe3 6y agoYeah, he's just one health crisis from complete bankruptcy. What if he goes to the hospital complaining of a headache and they charge him $182 billion for an aspirin?
- deegles 6y agoHe should have bought Bitcoin if he wanted to be really wealthy.
- ksec 6y agoFrom https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/email-from-jeff-bezos-to-employees https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/email-from-jef... >Fellow Amazonians: >I’m excited to announce that this Q3 I’ll transition to Executive Chair of the Amazon Board and Andy Jassy will become CEO. In the Exec Chair role, I intend to focus my energies and attention on new products and early initiatives. Andy is well known inside the company and has been at Amazon almost as long as I have. He will be an outstanding leader, and he has my full confidence. This reads to me as Jeff Bezos doesn't want the boring job of running AWS and Amazon anymore. He want something new, >As Exec Chair I will stay engaged in important Amazon initiatives but also have the time and energy I need to focus on the Day 1 Fund, the Bezos Earth Fund, Blue Origin, The Washington Post, and my other passions. There are plenty of Growth left in Amazon and AWS. But that is not as exiting as Blue Origin or Funding other initiative via Day 1 Fund. I still remember when Amazon was only selling Books. People laughed, Media Laughed, and I guess most of us laughed. Amazon is now a ~$1.6 Trillion Dollar Company. What an era.
- munificent 6y agoFor comparison, using national total wealth, that makes Amazon worth more than Saudia Arabia, Denmark, Portugal, or New Zealand. It's $280.5 billion in revenue in 2019 put it above the GDP of Romania, Peru, Ukraine, etc. Corporations should never be allowed to get this large.
- personjerry 6y ago> Corporations should never be allowed to get this large. Why? Bonus question: Why should governments be allowed to get that big?
- wellthisisgreat 6y agoYeah GP is unlikely to answer
- jcranmer 6y agoThe retort to your bonus question is that the government doesn't get to "spend" its GDP. Although the counter-retort is to bring up government revenue instead, where Amazon instead slots in between Mexico and the Netherlands.
- rainhacker 6y agoI feel it can be an uncertain transition when a founder/entrepreneur steps down, and an employee of the company takes the place. Looking forward to how Amazon will evolve under the new leadership.
- ignoramous 6y ago> This journey began some 27 years ago. Amazon was only an idea, and it had no name. Jeff's pitch at the time (1997); so on point, so precise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWRbTnE1PEM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWRbTnE1PEM > The question I was asked most frequently at that time was, “What’s the internet?” Blessedly, I haven’t had to explain that in a long while. Here's Jeff explaining the Internet (at a TED talk): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMKNUylmanQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMKNUylmanQ > Invention. Invention is the root of our success. We’ve done crazy things together, and then made them normal... If you get it right, a few years after a surprising invention, the new thing has become normal. People yawn. And that yawn is the greatest compliment an inventor can receive. Jeff speaking about innovation, invention (based on first principles), making data-driven decisions (and also when to not trust data), learned helplessness at Stanford (2005): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhnDvvNS8zQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhnDvvNS8zQ > When times have been good, you’ve been humble. Heh. Reminds me of this 2008 lecture where Jeff is selling AWS to startup school students: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nKfFHuouzA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nKfFHuouzA Classic. > Amazon couldn’t be better positioned for the future. We are firing on all cylinders, just as the world needs us to. Not sure about that last part, Jeff. So long, and thanks for all the fish.
- draw_down 6y agoGood grief.
- techlatest_net 6y agoAnd here is the video from 1999 [1] showing his obsession with customer which is why customer support is in the DNA of Amazon 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxwjzVW7z5o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxwjzVW7z5o
- afavour 6y agoI'd argue that the customer experience of Amazon has declined dramatically in the last few years. Maybe there should be more internal viewings of that video.
- hehehaha 6y agoI like that Jassy is taking over. He really helped transform the world with AWS and Bezos’ stubbornness to keep failing is what allowed that business to grow.
- underseacables 6y agoAt some point you just have so much money that continue working full-time doesn’t really make much sense
- Dig1t 6y agoHopefully this will precipitate a change in how engineers are treated? Maybe they’ll be nicer to their employees and/or stop the practice of arbitrarily culling large portions of engineering talent..
- jzer0cool 6y agoI still have the very first book I bought from Amazon when they were a very young company. Not too many choices. I bought "Relativity : the Special and General Theory" - Einstein. Decades later. We see in fact they are "to the moon" financially and with Blue Origin. Well played. Well played.
- pjmorris 6y agoSame here. In 1998, my aunt recommended I read 'The Call' by John Hersey. Local bookstores didn't have it, Amazon did.
- maverickJ 6y agoLove him or hate him, Jeff Bezos has been a legendary figure in the world of business for over 25 years now. His focus on the long term has led to the tremendous success Amazon has undergone. When he started selling just books, he was laughed at by some people; but he had a why behind starting off with books. One thing is certain, Bezos has stayed consistent on his principles. His annual letters to his shareholders contain a lot of business wisdom. I wrote about him covering the theme: Thinking as a means of leverage in https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/jeff-bezos-amazon-and-thinking-as https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/jeff-bezos-amazon-an...
- tomcam 6y agoI was there as a developer and a consumer. I don’t remember anyone laughing at him for selling books. It was an obvious play to most of us.
- mr_toad 6y agoBack before the .com crash Amazon was one of the few .coms with an actual business plan.
- maverickJ 6y agoThere were those who saw his play. However there was another group of people that wondered the Amazon approach at that time.
- bhupy 6y agoObviously Amazon employees would be bought in. It was people on the outside that laughed at him: https://twitter.com/jimpethokoukis/status/1231245913764638720 https://twitter.com/jimpethokoukis/status/123124591376463872...
- chrshawkes 6y agoBS dude. He wasn't laughed at. The man went to Princeton. Right next to other billionaires like Andy Florence. His family was rich etc... He was already a millionaire. It's not a rags-to-riches story by any stretch.
- 0zymandias 6y agoThe takeover of tech by MBAs continues. It has now happened at the top 4 largest tech companies in the US. We will have Apple (Tim Cook), Amazon (Andy Jassy), Alphabet (Sundar Pichai), Microsoft (Satya Nadella & Steve Ballmer) all taking over from non-MBA founders. Facebook is next in size and has Sheryl Sandberg as COO but don't know if Mark Zuckerberg would ever hand over the reins. Why don't non-MBAs manage to get to the top?
- paulpan 6y agoErrr...both Sundar and Satya were software engineers first?
- meetups323 6y agoClearly the CEO should have no formal business training, regardless of their prior work.
- mywittyname 6y agoAn MBA has always been the way to signal that you want to move from engineering to senior management. Almost every senior manager I've met with an engineering background has an MBA (or a PhD). I have to assume that MBA programs teach the kind of stuff one would need to know to rise up the ranks.
- jozen 6y agoDisagree on Sundar.
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- momothereal 6y agoThree of the four have engineering degrees and have previously worked as engineers. Maybe having an MBA on top is not a bad thing to run a trillion-dollar company?
- ianai 6y agoI’m just going to piss into the wind a little. After seeing what happened to Microsoft and Apple after they lost their founder CEOs, I don’t welcome this news as freely as others might. We’re not necessarily likely to see the company go directions that are for the better. (Maybe though this is really a rant about Cook. Amazon has lots of room to improve. Looking at all those forged brand names, for instance.)
- jimbob45 6y agoWhat is it you perceive that happened to MS? They appear to be doing well and are the top competitor to Amazon's AWS.
- orev 6y agoMS completely missed on mobile phones and tablets, despite trying so many times at it. The “Windows everywhere” approach prevented them from doing what really had to be done (make something new for these new devices). That was all under the Ballmer era. It’s only now that they have a new CEO who is happy to pursue other approaches that they have been able to start going in a better direction again.
- ianai 6y agoExactly. Bill stepped down in 2008. Balmer was CEO until 2014. Oddly that’s when their products started to turn around significantly. Cook has made a lot of original Mac power users completely pissed. He’s gutted entire software products that people relied upon using. He’s probably why we had the half decade of MBPs developers didn’t like. Etc. His best accomplishment has been the services stuff and maybe the M1.
- smabie 6y agoNo one cares about the technical users. They are, by and large, irrelevant.
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- _nickwhite 6y agoI remember in the late 90's when Amazon competed with Barnes and Noble (here in the US) to sell books online. An interesting fact that stuck with me about Amazon back then is they didn't use any crazy javascript or front-end emerging tech- it was really basic HTML that drove the website and shopping cart. Their current logo, which smiles from A to Z (buy everything from A to Z!) hasn't always been the logo- as they started out just selling books with a vastly different image. Here's an interesting journey through the logos: https://www.freelogodesign.org/blog/2018/09/10/the-amazon-logo-story https://www.freelogodesign.org/blog/2018/09/10/the-amazon-lo...
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y ago> they didn't use any crazy javascript or front-end emerging tech- it was really basic HTML that drove the website and shopping cart. javascript didn't exist. existing retail mail order couldn't deal with "almost in time" inventory. there were no "web frameworks". so it wasn't a choice to write it ourselves, it was the only possible thing to do.
- y04nn 6y agoAnd amazon.com today still works exactly the same with JavaScript turned off or on.
- fullshark 6y agoGreat interview with Bezos from 1997 https://youtu.be/rWRbTnE1PEM https://youtu.be/rWRbTnE1PEM
- InTheArena 6y agoThe lead that is a bit buried here is that AWS is so essential to Amazon now that it’s Amazon’s future is AWS not necessarily retail.
- RivieraKid 6y agoNow I'm waiting to see how will Elon Musk insert himself into this news story. It's a matter of time, mark my words. (This is a snarky comment that deserves to get downvoted, couldn't help it.)
- lend000 6y agoI'm excited that this will really accelerate the space race. I think his relative lack of attention paid to Blue Origin (compared to Musk and SpaceX) is why they've fallen so far behind.
- munificent 6y agoI really wish billionaires would focus on fixing this planet before worrying about others. But I guess many of them consider a planet a resource to be exploited.
- stevewodil 6y agoJeff Bezos has mentioned a strategy of doing things that pollute the Earth somewhere else in space and bringing back the goods that are created from it to Earth
- mft_ 6y agoYou really think it’s a big factor? I suspect there’s just a very different culture and ethos there. And Musk also has Tesla (including solar), Open AI, Boring, Neuralink, and lots of tweeting...
- Aperocky 6y agoWhat happened to Boring? I think the big difference with Boring is that the tech that goes there are vastly different than the software-hardware integration in his other companies. Boring is probably mostly hardware with very little software.
- Ericson2314 6y agoBoring is also by far the stupidest with putting cars in tunnels about the least efficient thing one can do with a tunnel. The fundamentals of TBMs aren't so drastically sub-optimal to make that misallocation easy to compensate.
- somethoughts 6y agoIt will be interesting to watch how Andy Jassy as head of AWS (dealing with building out data centers, SW partnerships, API uptime, negotiating with Intel, designing Graviton CPUs, etc.) will be able to transition to such things as Prime Video content licensing discussions and goal setting for Whole Foods and the nuances of warehouse distribution labor disputes. As a founder of Amazon - having built Amazon from nothing, Bezos probably had certain in-built persona and gravitas which probably helped with leadership talent acquisition and vision setting in all domains of the business universe. The opportunity to report to Jeff Bezos was probably a huge selling point - no matter what industry you were coming from. Its interesting Amazon never attempted to give Andy Jassy a trial run as a public facing COO running both sides of the house.
- paxys 6y agoAnecdotally I have heard that Amazon as a company does delegation very effectively. Individual departments have complete autonomy over their own business decisions, and this applies on the engineering side as well. I do agree that the shitstorm over warehouse workers, automation, unionization etc. is only going to get a lot worse over the next few years, and Jassy may even find handling that becoming his primary job.
- 8ytecoder 6y agoJeff is a man of contradictions. I’ve heard him micromanage to the level that individual AWS launch pages were reviewed and approved by him; so were the choice of databases (oracle vs MySQL) and SOA. At the same time, he gives extreme leeway and time for product teams to prove their mettle. The general assumption is you have 7 years from start to profitability. It’s a long time by tech industry standards. (Just look at Google).
- somethoughts 6y agoYes - that's part of magic - as the founder you have the latitude to go to any level of the corporate stack and critique things. Jeff could probably go to any Amazon distribution center on any random day and start critiquing at how things were being packed inefficiently in boxes and people would fix things in the next hour. It'll be interesting to see if Andy Jassy can metaphorically do similar things.
- ngoel36 6y agoSo is it finally Day 2?
- GizmoSwan 6y agoHe has bought a new 0.5 billion dollar boat this year. https://themarketherald.com.au/magazine/the-pursuit-of-comfort-jeff-bezos-invests-400m-into-superyacht-machine-2020-01-02/ https://themarketherald.com.au/magazine/the-pursuit-of-comfo... Bill gates is still renting. What do you think he was going to do with all that cash. After few years he will review his life after vacationing becomes dull for the workhorse.
- Tepix 6y agoToo bad it's not a sailing yacht. He shares the vision of Gerard O'Neill. Making it reality will require large amounts of money.
- GizmoSwan 6y agoIt is really trendy for billionaires to be interested in space right now. I think they want to make money there. They believe that too big to fail on earth means that they should go where nobody has made any money. O'Neill was product of academia, a physicist and not a head of corporation.
- Tepix 6y agoI believe that saying it is "trendy" is missing the point. Both Bezos and Musk have been space nerds since their youth.
- mrep 6y agoDo you have an up to date source on bezos owning the flying fox as that one is based on a tweet that was deleted and everything I've read since says that was false including a quick google search. Also, I'm interested in how you think Amazon is too big to fail because I most certainly do not think they are.
- GizmoSwan 6y agoIf you mean the boat https://themarketherald.com.au/magazine/the-pursuit-of-comfort-jeff-bezos-invests-400m-into-superyacht-machine-2020-01-02/ https://themarketherald.com.au/magazine/the-pursuit-of-comfo...
- mikojan 6y agoI vomited into my mouth a little
- jacquesm 6y agoCan we keep this kind of bs comment off HN please? Thank you.
- fugazithehaxoar 6y ago$15 minimum wage is not something to be proud of. That's just over $30k a year. If you know someone that makes that little, you know how personally unsustainable that level of income is.
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y ago> This journey began some 27 years ago. Amazon was only an idea, and it had no name. It had a name, and that name was "Cadabra". It didn't become Amazon until Jeff watched a documentary about the Amazon River. His lawyer had already turned up his nose at "Cadabra", and Jeff was looking for something else. It's also worth noting that the idea didn't grow over time - Jeff always intended to build something like "Sears for the 21st century". The bookstore was just the way in, not the long term plan. ps. amazon employee #2
- cosenal 6y agoThis reminds me of an essay by @pg about startup names: http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html
- reilly3000 6y agoHi Paul, I :heart: JACK and spend lots with Amazon, cheers. I wonder if you have an opinion on this bit of gossip: Is there any relationship between Jeff's departure and this FTC Tips scandal? https://komonews.com/news/local/amazon-took-away-62-million-in-tips-from-drivers-ftc-says https://komonews.com/news/local/amazon-took-away-62-million-... The only evidence I see is relating to their very similar timing of publication.
- jacobwal 6y agoHadn't heard the documentary story, thanks for sharing! Were there any choices in the first few years that you think made a particularly big difference in setting Amazon up for what it is today? Anything you're particularly proud of that you did there?
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- warent 6y agoOut of curiosity has it ever seemed to you that Amazon's success changed Jeff? Or has he always been largely the same person you knew from the start?
- __MatrixMan__ 6y agoMusk made his initial money at PayPal and then went on to do much weirder stuff. I wonder what kind of weird stuff we can expect from Bezos, having secured Amazon-scale seed money for it.
- the_duke 6y agoHe's already pumping a billion a year into Blue Origin, which incidentally has quite a few management issues. So that would be a logical step, although I'm doubtful how effective the Amazon principles would be for spaceflight.
- ilaksh 6y agoBezos achieved amazing things. But Amazon stole more than $60 million in tips from delivery drivers. If Bezos knew about it then he should go to prison.
- jvreagan 6y agoIncredibly grateful for what Bezos has built. I learned more in my 6 years at Amazon that I have in my 20 other years in the industry. And Amazon gave my autistic spectrum son a chance when literally nobody else would. Thank you, Jeff.
- jobroder95 6y agoOne of the things underreported about Jeff Bezos is that he was a seed investor into Google. He tried to buy the company for $100 Million dollars, I wonder how our landscape would have been different if the merger went through. It will be interesting to see how his other projects payoff.
- ignoramous 6y agoJeff was an early investor in Airbnb and Uber, too. And I am sure many more companies as LP via other VC firms.
- fortran77 6y agoGetting ready to run for President in 2024?
- streetcat1 6y agoProbably due to the coming wealth tax or capital gain tax changes.
- latchkey 6y ago1-Click was terrible for the internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click
- wheybags 6y ago> I don’t know of another company with an invention track record as good as Amazon’s Come on man, that's just bs. From wikipedia: > Researchers working at Bell Labs are credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the Unix operating system, and the programming languages B, C, C++, S, SNOBOL, AWK, AMPL, and others. Nine Nobel Prizes have been awarded for work completed at Bell Laboratories.
- simonebrunozzi 6y agoUpvoted; and thanks for sharing these details. They might be obvious for you, but I had only a limited knowledge of all that innovation happening at Bell Labs.
- wheybags 6y agoYou're in today's lucky 10,000 (https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/) :)
- orthecreedence 6y agoOtherwise known as a blind spot: https://memestatic1.fjcdn.com/comments/Heckifiknowcomicscompost148997849519+_7ea3ce24c7b26efd546a20caf03c5e72.jpg https://memestatic1.fjcdn.com/comments/Heckifiknowcomicscomp...
- nomercy400 6y agoLucent Technologies once made a video, with many of Bell Labs' inventions, captured in a song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFfdnFOiXUU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFfdnFOiXUU
- rajansaini 6y agoDidn't Yann LeCun do important work on CNNs there as well?
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- nodesocket 6y agoI am shocked Amazon stock in after hours is actually up on this news. I would have expected Bezos stepping down as CEO would be a negative.
- corin_ 6y agoThey announced quarterly earnings of literally double what analysts were expecting at the same time, which would have sent the stock to a bigger rise had it not been balanced by his news.
- devilduck 6y agoToo bad he doesn't care about the people who work for him
- gnicholas 6y ago> As Amazon became large, we decided to use our scale and scope to lead on important social issues. Two high-impact examples: our $15 minimum wage and the Climate Pledge. Perhaps I'm overly cynical, but I don't think they made these moves because of altruism. They do pay their warehouse employees more than some warehouses, and people talk about changing jobs to work at Amazon because the pay is better. But they also talk about how demanding/grueling it is. I'm not sure Amazon could get people to do this work, for this many hours on end (in some cases allegedly without sufficient bathroom breaks) for less than $15/hr. As for the climate, I think they would have been clobbered by environmentalists had they not done this. So while it's good that they pay their employees more than minimum wage, and they make efforts to reduce their environmental footprint, I view both of these moves as being in service of the bottom line.
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- astrange 6y agoAmazon was paying less than $15 minimum pretty recently; they changed after Bernie started yelling at them, although I'm sure they figured it was a win-win anyway. Before that I think they had an adaption of the pay scale for higher-earning employees where part of compensation was in stock. But if you're making minimum wage you probably don't want to deal with selling shares, waiting for vesting, reporting taxes etc. > As for the climate, I think they would have been clobbered by environmentalists had they not done this. For a tech company moves like this are critical for hiring. Amazon's reputation has always been a place to work out of college until your shares vest, and then you quit because management is abusing you. So they probably would like to be thought of as less evil.
- gnicholas 6y agoLooks like they announced their $15 minimum wage in 2018. The Wired subhead is telling: "The company didn't act purely out of the goodness of its heart." https://www.wired.com/story/why-amazon-really-raised-minimum-wage/ https://www.wired.com/story/why-amazon-really-raised-minimum...
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- alphabet9000 6y agoI wanted to read this, I really did, but the Time Indicator stated that it was a 2 min read. I'm sorry, that is too long. I ended up not reading; I simply do not have the time. Perhaps Jeff Bezos can get to the point a little bit quicker, the next time he steps down from a key management position in the future. A 1 min read would be acceptable. Thanks to Amazon for including a reading time indicator, I might have wasted my time otherwise.
- jedberg 6y agoStock market seems happy about this. They are up 1% after hours.
- f430 6y agoThis was a smart move to avoid being caught up in the inevitable anti-trust suit
- efwfwef 6y ago> As Amazon became large, we decided to use our scale and scope to lead on important social issues. Two high-impact examples: our $15 minimum wage and the Climate Pledge. In both cases, we staked out leadership positions and then asked others to come along with us. In both cases, it’s working. Other large companies are coming our way. I hope you’re proud of that as well. This, son, is the market at play. Without regulations to raise the minimum wage for everyone, companies are supposed to raise it to compete. Amazon has chosen to raise it for publicity, to compete, or by pure generosity. In the mean time, most American workers are paid well below minimum wage, and the situation is not getting better, I should even say: the situation is getting worse. Amazon has given ammunition for people to claim that see, companies are doing the right thing, all is well.
- zmmmmm 6y agoSmall point but my mind just boggled at the figure of 1.3 million employees. This is getting towards the size of a small country. Absolutely amazing!
- dannykwells 6y agoMicrosoft, Google, Amazon... Wondering who the next major CEO will be to "promote" himself to the board will be. Mark? Elon?
- xibalba 6y agoI know there is a lot of hate toward Amazon going around these days, including calls for regulation and/or break-up (to which I am not necessarily opposed). But, for my money, the world is an immeasurably better place for the presence Jeff Bezos and Amazon. Thanks Jeff!
- rossdavidh 6y agoAbsolutely, totally nothing to do with the "billionaire tax" brewing in Washington state. But, you know, the timing probably doesn't hurt.
- lookalike74 6y ago(Email from Jeff Bezos to everyone in corporate because the larger culture in Amazon is nothing like this)
- CryptoGhost 6y agoThey sent the email to literally everyone, even people without amazon email accounts through the employment website but yeah you are right. There is a caste system within Amazon that even working out of corp office or having a tech job won't save you from.
- daltonlp 6y ago"It remains day 1 for you suckers. $15 minimum wage, isn't that great? I hope you are as proud of our inventiveness as I am. I think you should be. "For me, it's day 2. I’m excited about this transition."
- taf2 6y agoMy favorite quote “ Keep inventing, and don’t despair when at first the idea looks crazy. Remember to wander. Let curiosity be your compass. It remains Day 1.”. - Jeff Bezos
- mrfusion 6y agoIt’s weird he mentions 1-click as one of their crowning achievements. Couldn’t any software engineer do that in an afternoon?
- arduinomancer 6y ago1-click ordering is a product innovation, not a technical one
- mrfusion 6y agoWell then a business person could think of it in an afternoon.
- mannykannot 6y agoGetting it patented was the achievement.
- omega3 6y agoLooking at the lists of early employees and the compensation/wealth of the execs has there ever been a company where the wealth created went in a such disproportionate way to the founder?
- DennisP 6y agoNightly news said he's going to focus his next efforts on philanthropy, the Washington Post, and space travel. Maybe we'll see a little more from Blue Origin soon.
- hippich 6y agoSo... Now that Jeff is retiring, whom I should address emails after various support teams fail at their jobs? Before it was jeff@amazon.com, now, I would assume, andy@amazon.com?
- zuhayeer 6y ago"If you get it right, a few years after a surprising invention, the new thing has become normal. People yawn. And that yawn is the greatest compliment an inventor can receive."
- xyst 6y ago"The king is dead, long live the king!"
- xkgt 6y agoGiven the recent discussions in hn on how Intel's fortunes declined under Bob Swan, it is interesting to note that Andy Jassy is also from a non-technical background. Same can be said about Jeff Bezos. Perhaps tech vs non-tech background is not that important a factor for being a successful leader of technology company. Or can we say that Amazon/AWS and Intel are different kinds of organization based on their core competencies?
- agnosticmantis 6y agoDoesn’t Bezos have degrees in EE and CS?
- xkgt 6y agoSorry, yes you are right.
- awill88 6y ago“I’ve never had more energy, and this isn’t about retiring” [imitates Bezos] With that said, I’m out. Don’t call me, I’ll call you. If I don’t show up for a meeting, it’s because I’m paid and gonna do whatever tf I feel like for the rest of my life. Peace!
- williamsharris 6y agoWe all want a CEO like him.
- fao_ 6y ago"I don’t know of another company with an invention track record as good as Amazon’s," - Jeff Bezos Excuse me? Maybe we should consider -- oh I don't know, Bell Telephone, which had Bell Laboratories? Which won 13* Nobel Prizes for revolutionary, groundbreaking research about the Transistor and created and funded a "Legal Typesetting System" on which 90% of overall computer operating systems are descended from! Even ignoring Bell Laboratories, we could look at IBM, which created the modern home computer market! Or Xerox PARC! Or Apple! * - or 9, my brain is giving me two numbers on that and I don't remember which one it was
- irrational 6y agoMy college student just called me saying, "Jeff Bezos is not the head of Amazon anymore, but if he thinks this will fix his problem he is wrong." Me, "What problem?" Her, "That we all hate him." Me, "Who is we?" Her, "Everyone who sees how the bourgeoisie are the enemy." Me, "Um, do you think Jeff Bezos actually cares enough about your thoughts on him to remove himself from the head of Amazon?" Her, "He's just hoping to survive the revolution." Me, "So, how are your marxist courses going at college again?"
- googlerx 6y agoI liked this until I got to the end and saw Jeff is still doing that "Day 1" BS. groan
- Donckele 6y agoThanks for the motivation: “Keep inventing, and don’t despair when at first the idea looks crazy. Remember to wander. Let curiosity be your compass. It remains Day 1. Jeff”
- codeulike 6y agoWhen he talks about 'invention' he means inventing new ways to trick people into accidentally signing up for Amazon Prime
- herewegoagain2 6y agoWho was responsible for the decision to not offer help with vaccinations under Trump? I had always defended Amazon, until that moment, when they declared they would let people die for their ideology. Now I am trying to purge Amazon from my life, and it is hard. Much more difficult than Google. I had even started to use their grocery deliveries during Covid lockdowns. Maybe if it was Jeff's doing, and he is gone, I could justify continuing to buy from Amazon. But I guess not. Interesting that many say AWS is the actual business of Amazon, and they may get rid of the rest. It seems to me AWS would be the easiest to replace, after all, there are lots of cloud standards. Can't you just take your Docker images and publish them somewhere else? It seems much more difficult to me to replace the aggregation and efficient logistics. In fact I don't see any competition. Now that they want to see me dead, I want to see Amazon dead, but I have little hopes for it. Their achilles heel might be trust - online reviews are almost completely broken now, and complaints about fake products are rising. Their answer to the latter seems to be to steal successful products and sell them as "Amazon Basics", but that is evil and also won't work for having "everything". Another issue could be people returning their stuff or even damaged goods. I see a surprising number of people who have no ethical qualms about returning things they already used or that are broken. Maybe the future will be to buy directly from producers? That seems to be the only way to avoid the fake products? So someone should come up with ways to make it easy for producers to sell their products online, or at least provide a chain of trust.
- tlholaday 6y ago> Who was responsible for the decision to not offer help with vaccinations under Trump? Trump was responsible for that decision, that’s who.
- herewegoagain2 6y agoThat doesn't make sense. You claim Trump rejected the offer that Amazon secretly made to him?
- giomasce 6y ago"As Amazon became large, we decided to use our scale and scope to lead on important social issues". A bold claim for a company widely known to exploit and underpay workers in distribution warehouses.
- Jamieee 6y agoAnd their anti-union movements. https://www.doitwithoutdues.com/ https://www.doitwithoutdues.com/
- wiz21c 6y agoyour comment deserve 1000 votes. The whole message from Bezos is so much about what the management team has done and so few about the people who actually move boxes around. I also wonder what's the overall CO2 footprint of Amazon and what's their record about recycling, repairing, etc. I know they propose some tools to help for that and they may even be more efficient than others, but as a company with "lead on social issues", it needs to have more than "a lead", it needs to question its very own existence. So the mail of Bezos, is, in my view, not ambitious at all.
- scotty79 6y agoWhen you praise the software your team wrote you don't pay respects to how hard transistors work to make the whole thing possible. Lowest workers for Jeff are just cogs in the machine.
- radu_floricica 6y agoI have some karma to burn, so let's do this again. Underpay compared to what? There has to be some comparison here. You can't say "underpay" and leave it at that. You might try and weasel and say "underpay compared to a decent living wage". Well, I have news for you - even that's relative. A fair comparison would be "underpay compared to the rest of the warehouse industry". Which begs the question - why do people go work for Amazon, then? Are they trapped by not being able to leave the small towns where Amazon hires? Doesn't sound likely. Could it be that their overall conditions are more or less on par, or quite probably somewhat better than the rest of the industry? I'm going to call your bullshit and say what I think directly: Amazon is a cheap target for young idealists simply because it's visible, it's fashionable to attack, makes a lot of money overall, and most people attacking it have no idea what's a good pay for that kind of work because they never did that kind of work.
- ElectricMind 6y agoI wanted to work for Amazon then I read "The Everything Store..." and how brutal this guy is even to his loyal people. How he treated initial people who supported him. Amazon is part of the club- I don't want to work companies. Facebook, Google, Reddit, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tesla, SpaceX and adding more
- neolefty 6y agoAre there large companies that you would like to work for? Keeping a healthy culture in a small company seems feasible. Not sure about large companies?
- annadane 6y ago"btw fuck your unions lol"
- gregjw 6y agoSo long and thanks for all the fish.
- beyondcompute 6y agoI wish Amazon would tackle its “ridiculously useless at this point, overrun with scammers reviews” problem though. :)
- krapp 6y agoTheir stock is worth 3K a share, that's clearly not a problem. At least not for them.
- telltruth 6y agoIt is utterly surprising that even Bezos couldn't resist choosing a business MBA guy as his successor just like Steve Jobs, Larry Page and Bill Gates did! They talked ALL their lives about importance of "product person", innovators, disruptors, technologists and derided "business" CEOs. But when it came down to it, they ALL chose the safest possible suit at their disposal to run their ships. Steady as it goes...
- hehehaha 6y agoBut Jassy is not a typical MBA guy. He trailblazed the entire cloud industry.
- biztos 6y agoAnd Tim Cook trailblazed the world’s most valuable supply chain, IIRC. I don’t think the parent was implying these are talentless drones, just that they are the obvious safe choices for succession.
- scns 6y agoIs value is the only metric worth looking at? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26013895 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26013895
- monadic3 6y ago....can MBAs not apply existing business patterns to new industries? How low are your expectations for MBAs that this is a surprise? I fully expect most people could do the same in the same position with similar education.
- scns 6y agoI found it baffling, that someone manage to predict how that would work out: https://steveblank.com/2016/10/24/why-tim-cook-is-steve-ballmer-and-why-he-still-has-his-job-at-apple/ https://steveblank.com/2016/10/24/why-tim-cook-is-steve-ball...
- hit8run 6y agoJust split up that monopoly. Amazon is not a success story it’s a fail story for market regulation.
- alimbada 6y agoAny chance the new CEO has a conscience and will do something about the atrocious track record Amazon has in how it treats its employees?
- monadic3 6y agoFind a better job, employees.
- steve76 6y agoBurn down the country. Then cash out and hit the road.
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- someguy2021 6y agoAmazon all the way !!!
- someguy2021 6y agoSay what you like, hate how much you can but Amazon is a truly inspiring story and one of the best engineering companies in the world. There impact has been huge !!! Jeff is a true leader and visionary !
- PointyFluff 6y ago"So long, thanks for all the fish"?
- pmiller2 6y agoWhat is "Career Choice" in the context of Amazon? Also, I think the claim to have pioneered "marketplace" might be exaggerated. I would say eBay lead in that department, so, unless Amazon Marketplace was around before 1995, I don't think this is correct. Or, am I missing something here? I think the essential bit is having third party sellers, but Amazon does go to some lengths to make it semi-transparent to buy from a Marketplace seller.
- barry27 6y agoI bet this, the 982nd comment, is as boring as all the others. How can there be things to say about one man's email to his staff?