Former Amazon employees bake Bezos principles into their startups • Hacker News Board

Re: Former Amazon employees bake Bezos principles into their startups

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Post by manigandham » Thu, Dec 26, 2019, 1:36 AM UTC

ng12 wrote: post #89

manigandham wrote: post #81

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> " Target and Walmart are catching up " Exactly. Amazon is still well in the lead. They have likely analyzed this entire problem with news and features scheduled over the next 2 years to resolve it as soon as their competitors gain any real ground.

That's still not anything close to "perfect execution".

You seem to be looking at this as a consumer who got a fake item (from a 3rd-party seller). Store experience is not the same as business execution.

The company is operating optimally, making the most revenue with the most growth while controlling costs and taking market share from all of its rivals. Nothing's perfect, but this is as close as you can get with a trillion dollar company that remains in the lead and is pulling even further ahead.

Re: Former Amazon employees bake Bezos principles into their startups

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Post by celticmusic » Thu, Dec 26, 2019, 1:51 PM UTC

heavyset_go wrote: post #86

celticmusic wrote: post #83

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this is such a classless reply. You don't get to tell me what my point was and you certainly don't get to argue with me about what my point is. The person I responded to said the website hasn't changed. I read that as a redesign of the site itself. Now, there's nothing wrong if you read it differently. Where you stepped over the line is when you decided to argue with me about what my point is.

> You don't get to tell me what my point was and you certainly don't get to argue with me about what my point is. You said one thing, which I replied to, and now you're claiming it's another thing. I'm not really sure what you expect when you do that.

and this is how you get dismissed.

Re: Former Amazon employees bake Bezos principles into their startups

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Post by pmart123 » Thu, Dec 26, 2019, 7:48 PM UTC

jariel wrote: post #69

pmart123 wrote: post #49

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From my recollection, Ballmer continually overpaid for random acquisitions that screamed “in the moment hot thing” versus well-thought, strategic. From an outsiders view, the whole we must take over the world syndrome manifested into trying to buy a way into everything that could be big versus fit well with Microsoft.

You mean like Google's $3.2 B acquisition of Nest, which has nothing to do with their core offer and is losing money? Or FitBit, another money losing entity for $2B? Or Alphalbet's other substantial moonshot investments none of which have panned out? They're all 'strategic' but that's what all bad investments are pinned as. I think your statement might be driven by narrative (which is my point about Ballmer's public…

I completely agree on Alphabet as of late. Maybe they can justify having a hardware division for phones as a necessary cost center in order to facilitate R&D developments for Android. I’d even give Veerily the benefit of the doubt as it seems to relate to cloud offerings for healthcare. Ballmer’s Microsoft era was similar to Google from 2014 onward.