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was a typical Bezos move—brilliant, and rather cruel.
Brad Stone • Amazon Unbound
virtually everyone in the United States and everywhere in the wired-up world knew Google.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
He also remarked that it is a lot more fun to run a customer-focused company.
Adam Davidson • The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century
EBay had an enormous advantage over the competition that it only then, under challenge, was coming to appreciate: a nicely balanced critical mass of sellers and buyers in each of hundreds of categories. This delicate balance had been achieved through the natural evolution of the eBay ecosystem, without the intervention of any guiding hand. If in an
... See moreRandall E. Stross • eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work
The days of the Byte Shop were over. Industry sales were shifting from local computer specialty shops to megachains and big box stores, where most clerks had neither the knowledge nor the incentive to explain the distinctive nature of Apple products. “All that the salesman cared about was a $50 spiff,” Jobs said. Other computers were pretty generic
... See moreWalter Isaacson • Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
“Technology” has itself become a golf commodity.
Harry Brown • Golf Ball (Object Lessons)
“There are two kinds of retailers: there are those folks who work to figure how to charge more, and there are companies that work to figure how to charge less, and we are going to be the second, full-stop,”
Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
