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Schwarz seems to be obsessed with how Amazon (book seller) created AWS and they are trying to do the same... with 5 people. Also Aleph Alpha + Cohere is a Lidl

by storus 6mo ago

Schwarz seems to be obsessed with how Amazon (book seller) created AWS and they are trying to do the same... with 5 people. Also Aleph Alpha + Cohere is a Lidl work as the current CEO of the former led Lidl digital division.

scandox 6mo ago
So the 7,500 they say they're employing...is not true?
- ambicapter 6mo ago
  Lidl is a grocery store chain, I'm assuming GP was talking about the amount of people actually working on the cloud.
  - scandox 6mo ago
    Lidl has 375,000 employees. They have stated they employ 7,500 people in their digital services division.
  - avra 6mo ago
    Yeah, Lidl and Kaufland are store chains, with 14200 stores combined. 7500 employees is just Schwarz Digits, the digital services division.
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- ivan_gammel 6mo ago
  Schwarz Gruppe includes Schwarz Digits, which include StackIT. 7500 is the number of employees at Digits, which also includes online marketplaces like Kaufland e-commerce, so definitely not all of them work on the sovereign cloud.
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wasmitnetzen 6mo ago
Lidl famously blew 500M on a failed SAP project, so they're understandably a bit into running things themselves. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17541092 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17541092
- pronik 6mo ago
  But they had the guts to back away. Not everyone does.