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He also deliberately kept their budget small and headcount low, on the theory that "constraints breed innovation". Read The Everything Store for details.
by senderista 2y ago
He also deliberately kept their budget small and headcount low, on the theory that "constraints breed innovation". Read The Everything Store for details.
- dboreham 2y agoGood to see that proved wrong with a controlled experiment.
- mkl 2y agoI haven't read that book, but that contradicts what I've read elsewhere, and it's from 2013. Wikipedia says: "By July 2014, Jeff Bezos had invested over $500 million into the company, and the vast majority of further funding into 2016 was to support technology development and operations where a majority of funding came from Jeff Bezos' private investment fund. In April 2017, an annual amount was published showing that Jeff Bezos was selling approximately $1 billion in Amazon stock per year to invest in the company. Jeff Bezos has been criticized for spending excessive amounts of his fortune on spaceflight." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Origin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Origin