Marissa Mayer's going to be on this list shortly.
She's pretty and smells good but I think we need some more solid proof.
Who’s afraid of Jeff Bezos?
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Re: Who’s afraid of Jeff Bezos?
#12Larry-Sergey & Google is far more feature proof company Amazon - Solves easy problems at large scale Google - Solves complex problems at large scale
Google -- solved a single very important problem really well by applying a well known tool (SVD and graph networks) to a novel example, also made android, otherwise not very exciting.
Furthermore, brick and mortar problems are hard -- things break, rot, get lost, require staff to move them around, etc. Not to poo-poo Google or any other pure software company, but it isn't harder because its on a computer, it's actually easier.
Re: Who’s afraid of Jeff Bezos?
#13Larry-Sergey & Google is far more feature proof company Amazon - Solves easy problems at large scale Google - Solves complex problems at large scale
Steel producers
- Simple manufacturing at large scale
Car producers - Complex manufacturing at large scale
I wouldn't say one is necessarily better than the other.
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#15Surprisingly, no mention of Washington Post. That keeps him firmly up there in the zone of evil. > Congratulations, sir The tone seems like that of a Bozo fanboy.
What makes his buying WaPo evil? Seriously. At all. Anything?
There's nothing particularly evil about Bezos buying the WP, but it's another step in my long-held belief that all of the major traditional news organs will be controlled by people who make their money elsewhere.
Re: Who’s afraid of Jeff Bezos?
#16Larry-Sergey & Google is far more feature proof company Amazon - Solves easy problems at large scale Google - Solves complex problems at large scale
Google -- solved a single very important problem really well by applying a well known tool (SVD and graph networks) to a novel example, also made android, otherwise not very exciting. Furthermore, brick and mortar problems are hard -- things break, rot, get lost, require staff to move them around, etc. Not to poo-poo Google or any other pure software company, but it isn't harder because its on a computer, it's actual…
> not very exciting
So you are "unexcited" by Glass, Loons, Earth/map/streetview, Go, etc.?
Re: Who’s afraid of Jeff Bezos?
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#18Larry-Sergey & Google is far more feature proof company Amazon - Solves easy problems at large scale Google - Solves complex problems at large scale
I'm not sure it's that easy.
Logistics is an easy problem? AWS is an easy problem? Overturning the publishing industry is an easy problem?
Put another way: Google has one product (search) that makes them money. Amazon has several.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google -- solved a single very important problem really well by applying a well known tool (SVD and graph networks) to a novel example, also made android, otherwise not very exciting. Furthermore, brick and mortar problems are hard -- things break, rot, get lost, require staff to move them around, etc. Not to poo-poo Google or any other pure software company, but it isn't harder because its on a computer, it's actual…
> not very exciting So you are "unexcited" by Glass, Loons, Earth/map/streetview, Go, etc.?
Streetview is cool. I guess I am impressed by good navigation algorithms. Loons, glass, Go, lots of aerial data -- yeah, impressive, sure.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
What makes his buying WaPo evil? Seriously. At all. Anything?
There's nothing particularly evil about Bezos buying the WP, but it's another step in my long-held belief that all of the major traditional news organs will be controlled by people who make their money elsewhere.
That might actually be better for said news organs.