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Is this seriously an article titled "An Amazon Engineer Had a Little Idea That Turned Into a Billion-Dollar Business" that doesn't actually name said engineer?
by adastra 14y ago
Is this seriously an article titled "An Amazon Engineer Had a Little Idea That Turned Into a Billion-Dollar Business" that doesn't actually name said engineer?
I will never understand the instinct for writers to attribute everything to a company's CEO. (The article fronts a big picture of Bezos). Nor will I understand certain CEO's not taking the effort to make sure their people get credit. It's possible The Atlantic made no effort to reach out to Amazon on this. But that seems unlikely.
- jelpern 14y agoI agree that this was egregious. I wonder if they wrote this headline as linkbait despite knowing that they didn't have the guy's name.
- mercurial 14y agoThis article is terrible. What is this doing on the frontpage? It's full of technical errors, and the title is pure linkbait. I was expecting the inside story of the birth of EC2, instead of this, the "Amazon engineer" is only mentioned in the title.