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This has got to be the most brazenly crass sales pitch I've ever seen. "Do you hate billionaires? We've got the product for you!"
by brandmeyer 5y ago
This has got to be the most brazenly crass sales pitch I've ever seen.
"Do you hate billionaires? We've got the product for you!"
- BadassFractal 5y agoIt got you to click, and to create engagement for this article, I wasn't aware of this product's existence and I likely wouldn't have been if not for the clickbait headline that got it to surface. That's a successful marketing endeavor right there.
- caminante 5y agoHow is the parent comment disagreeing with you? Couldn't the author have just said "Amazon" and gotten a comparable clickthrough?
- BadassFractal 5y agoI would be surprised if that was the case. Picking on Bezos specifically does a better job at creating drama, than by pointing a finger at a giant faceless organization.
- caminante 5y agoBezos = Amazon How many lay people know he's no longer CEO?
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- aptxkid 5y agoMarketing pitch doesn’t have to make sense to be successful. Andy is a marketing genius.
- m_ke 5y agoAndy is by far the coolest CS professor around.
- spoonjim 5y agoIs it wrong? Jeff Bezos is suing SpaceX because he’s jealous. Your AWS dollars could literally contribute towards the demise of the American space renaissance.
- hodgesrm 5y agoIt seemed kind of genius to me. The numbers look solid and easy to replicate. Talking about backup yachts is a lot more catchy than saying DBMS overprovisioning helps build fat margins for infrastructure providers. (OK, the second formulation has a poetic ring to it for the accountants among us.)