Email from Jeff Bezos to employees • Hacker News Board

Re: Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

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Post by Barrin92 » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 9:32 PM UTC

fakedang wrote: post #46

catacombs wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> spend time inside that WaPo newsroom that he loves. Investing in journalism is actually a very good thing.

Especially if you can change the narrative from "evil capitalist who forces his workers to piss in buckets" to "pioneer O'Reilly tube colonist"

Americans adopt that narrative voluntarily when it comes to entrepreneurs, he doesn't need to interfere with the Wapo newsroom for that. (and to my knowledge hasn't).

Re: Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

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Post by matmann2001 » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 9:32 PM UTC

Jonnax wrote: post #13

" Amazon is also announcing today that Jeff Bezos will transition to the role of Executive Chair in the third quarter of 2021 and Andy Jassy will become Chief Executive Officer at that time. “Amazon is what it is because of invention. We do crazy things together and then make them normal. We pioneered customer reviews, 1-Click, personalized recommendations, Prime’s insanely-fast shipping, Just Walk Out shopping, the…

yawn

Re: Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

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Post by tinyhouse » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 9:32 PM UTC

randomsearch wrote: post #60

astrojams wrote: post #20

I worked for AWS for a few years under Andy. He's a good pick for CEO of that company.

I see the future of Amazon as ~ 100% AWS. Do you think this will change that outcome?

How did you get to that conclusion?

Re: Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

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Post by kaszanka » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 9:33 PM UTC

Jonnax wrote: post #13

" Amazon is also announcing today that Jeff Bezos will transition to the role of Executive Chair in the third quarter of 2021 and Andy Jassy will become Chief Executive Officer at that time. “Amazon is what it is because of invention. We do crazy things together and then make them normal. We pioneered customer reviews, 1-Click, personalized recommendations, Prime’s insanely-fast shipping, Just Walk Out shopping, the…

Amazon did not invent customer reviews.

Re: Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

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Post by hehehaha » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 9:33 PM UTC

I like that Jassy is taking over. He really helped transform the world with AWS and Bezos’ stubbornness to keep failing is what allowed that business to grow.

Re: Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

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Post by cosmodisk » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 9:33 PM UTC

jgalt212 wrote: post #32

astrojams wrote: post #20

I worked for AWS for a few years under Andy. He's a good pick for CEO of that company.

without Andy (and AWS), I'd posit that Jeff would just be another regular old billionaire who'd own a sports team, but otherwise folks would not know much about.

Ask outside tech bubble and 9/10 never even heard of AWS,even though half of the things they use run on it. The retail front-end is the PR, while AWS is a magic money tree.

Re: Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

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Post by Axsuul » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 9:33 PM UTC

edanm wrote: post #58

jgalt212 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

without Andy (and AWS), I'd posit that Jeff would just be another regular old billionaire who'd own a sports team, but otherwise folks would not know much about.

I'm pretty sure you're wrong. Most people have no idea what AWS is, but know what Amazon the consumer business is. AWS is only well known among tech circles.

I think OP was alluding to the cash cow that AWS has become.

Re: Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

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Post by aerophilic » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 9:34 PM UTC

enraged_camel wrote: post #3

End of an era. I wonder what he'll do next.

I suspect he will focus on his space venture (blue origin)... but maybe that is wishful thinking.

That said, I think it can use his focus more than anything else (and he is investing 1B/year in it)

Re: Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

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Post by underseacables » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 9:34 PM UTC

At some point you just have so much money that continue working full-time doesn’t really make much sense

Re: Email from Jeff Bezos to employees

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Post by jl2718 » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 9:34 PM UTC

ww520 wrote: post #22

Wow. I still remember when Amazon started as an online bookstore selling books and people kind of laughed at the idea, and the time Amazon kept losing money and refused to post an earning and people got mad. Amazing long game.

Interestingly, it seemed at the time that books were just about the least exciting things being sold on the Internet, and the shipping costs looked fatal to the business. You could buy just about anything, and everybody was going out of business trying to compete on big ticket items like electronics and movies and games and beanie babies. Not much competition on books online (anybody remember the “Duwamish book store demo” from Microsoft?). It seems to me that he looked way out and thought about how things would be done 20 years hence, regardless of what made sense at the time, and chose to start on the piece of that future with the weakest competition.