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Jeff Bezos Pitching Amazon.com (1997) [video]

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Re: Jeff Bezos Pitching Amazon.com (1997) [video]

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0-_-0 wrote: post #2

Here he just reminds you of an excited nerd talking about his favorite Dungeons & Dragons setting, and now he's the richest person on the planet.

I like the part where he was talking about how much better web ads are than print because you can track revenue per ad dollar spent. He was about to say something, paused to find another term and said “marketer’s nirvana.” I wonder if he originally thought to say “marketer’s wet dream” and edited himself since he’s on video.

I like how he truly seems to be into the internet and chose books as a vehicle.

At any d&d table there’s usually 1-2 people who can bridge fantasy and reality and make them both better. Then there’s people who live in fantasy. And of course there’s mundies/normies/whatever who are in reality and would never spend hundreds of hours in make believe.

Re: Jeff Bezos Pitching Amazon.com (1997) [video]

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sradman wrote: post #5

At 4m48s: > This is day one. This is the very beginning. This is the Kitty Hawk stage of electronic commerce. https://youtu.be/rWRbTnE1PEM?t=298

Now we are entering the AmericanAirlines stage- everyone uses it and everyone hates it and it’s stagnated for decades.
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