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WSJ Excerpts Upcoming Bezos Bio
- ilamont 15y agoRecommended side reading for the excerpt/bio are some of the comments by ex-Amazon employee nirvana a few days' ago on the "Steve's Platform Rant" thread. Here's the lead comment by nirvana: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3102129 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3102129
- mcantelon 15y agoAfter reading that, I'm definitely going to make an effort to give Amazon less money.
- pasbesoin 15y agoAs long as this topic has been brought up, what do people think of NewEgg, these days? I've supported them for the useful comments on their site. They used to have a good "buzz" about them, including how they treated both customers and employees, but I've been seeing more negative comments about them in the last couple of years.
- cellis 15y agoI like how they conveniently left out the fact that Amazon lost money hand over fist for years before finally becoming profitable.
- OoTheNigerian 15y agoThat is an 'excerpt'.
- evanjacobs 15y agoLots of sloppy inaccuracies in the story. My favorite: "The best of them [customer service reps] could answer a dozen emails a minute". Ummm...that should be "hour".
- ck2 15y agoSo like most big successes, I see the Amazon story is basically a combo of huge luck (the yahoo promo) and the ignorance to run with it. Funny how we'll never know the names of the coders that made it all happen, only the guy steering the ship everyone else empowers gets the credit.
- sajid 15y ago"When Amazon got its start, we had brilliant engineers. I didn't know all of them, but I knew some of them. Examples? Shel Kaphan. Brilliant. Greg Linden. Brilliant." - Steve Yegge Shel Kaphan: http://www.geekwire.com/2011/meet-shel-kaphan-amazoncom-employee-1 http://www.geekwire.com/2011/meet-shel-kaphan-amazoncom-empl... Greg Linden: http://glinden.blogspot.com/ http://glinden.blogspot.com/