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" 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 E
by 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.” "
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- 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.
- amelius 6y agoHow about IMDB then?
- savanaly 6y agoPretty sure that was meant to mean "customer reviews" the amazon product. See also in the list: "marketplace" which I don't think they expect anyone to believe they invented either.
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoCould you point me to another merchant who offered customer-readable customer reviews before Amazon? I'm not saying there isn't one, just that when we were implementing them, I was unaware of any precedents ...
- 1_2__4 6y agoIt was the entire (original) business model of "Epinions".
- GraffitiTim 6y agoMy memory is there were some stores that had "customer reviews" before Amazon, but they were all screened by the company before being published. So every product would only have 5 star reviews. When Amazon came out with real reviews, it seemed crazy to many at the time -- like why would you want to share bad things about your products on your own website? I thought it was awesome.
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoOK, so now this hinges on the idea that such stores had an online e-commerce-y presence before amzn. Again, I'm not ruling it out, but I don't remember us having any real models for this. Amazon's customer review system was created as a barrier to entry for competitors, as much as anything else.
- GraffitiTim 6y agoYour memory would be more credible than mine certainly! Perhaps I'm remembering my/people's reaction to first seeing reviews on Amazon.
- ajliu 6y agoI'm not quite sure about the timeline of which was first, but didn't ebay have heavy emphasis on seller/buyer reviews early on?
- B1FF_PSUVM 6y agoOr insanely-fast shipping either, interstate phone orders were being affordably delivered in less than 24 hours at least in the 1980s.
- impalallama 6y agoPioneered is the key word here. The way Amazon does reviews has become something of the industry standard.
- ses1984 6y agoOut of all those things the only two uniquely amazon are cloud computing and fast shipping.
- rrdharan 6y agoCloud Computing is uniquely an Amazon invention the way smartphones are uniquely an Apple invention. Which is to say there’s a sense in which you’re right and a sense in which this is an absurd statement..
- mr_toad 6y agoThere were data centres before Amazon, but there was nothing like EC2. Infrastructure as code made all the difference.
- Aperocky 6y agoThis. No one before used RPC calls to provision actual infrastructure as a public business.
- progval 6y ago> but there was nothing like EC2. Infrastructure as code made all the difference. I believe Grid5000 did it before Amazon [1]. It opened in 2005 and allowed users to automatically book hardware (with OAR [2]) and install their own images (with Kadeploy) on dedicated hardware. [1]: https://www.grid5000.fr/w/History https://www.grid5000.fr/w/History [2]: https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Getting_Started#Reserving_resources_with_OAR:_the_basics https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Getting_Started#Reserving_resource...
- adventured 6y agoIt's definitely not absurd, even if they only deserve a share of the credit. There's nothing absurd about the way Amazon and Apple defined cloud computing and smartphones. They deserve as much credit as anyone for the services / products we know today as cloud computing and smartphones. The version of the smartphone that took off in sales, took over the culture and has become a human staple globally, was entirely defined by Apple's iPhone. No other company did that, it was Apple, period. To not recognize them as the prime mover of smartphones would be absurd.
- amelius 6y ago> We pioneered customer reviews Perhaps, but you didn't get them right (nobody did so far). > 1-Click Reminds me of the guy who invented "half-click" buying, i.e. you buy on the mousedown event.