• tofubl@discuss.tchncs.de
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    18 hours ago

    The guy is many things but unimaginative is not one of them. One of the people who really understood where technology was headed, in the worst way possible.

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      18 hours ago

      Yes truly imaginitive!

      the first month I was packing boxes on my hands and knees on the hard cement floors. I said to the person kneeling next to me, “You know, we need kneepads because this is killing my knees,” and he said, “What we need are packing tables” — the most brilliant idea I’d ever heard. The next day I went and bought packing tables and doubled our productivity.

      Source: https://builtin.com/articles/jeff-bezos-amazon-invent-and-wander

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        14 hours ago

        Amazon was the first to figure out that a .5 second delay in page loading would run customers off.

        Amazon was the first to realize a “no questions asked” return policy was what customer’s required.

        Amazon was the first to realize that shipping times were holding other vendors back.

        AWS… ah never mind. That one’s too big for a lemmy post.

        So yeah, Bezos is a dumbfuck. 🙄

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          13 hours ago

          Do you also think Bill Gates made Windows?

          AWS for instance is quite famously the brainchild of then Amazon CTO Allan Vermeulen, not Jeff Bezos.

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          13 hours ago

          Bezos is sure, the engineers solved all the problems you listed. The table that doubled their productivity and led to all of these solutions Amazon solved was brought by another person as well!

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      17 hours ago

      He’s an ex hedge-fund psychopath who used his connections and corporate consultant buddies to short and distort the competition into the ground for profit. He did predict the future in that sense.

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      18 hours ago

      I think many people imagined a dystopian corporate-tech future, most weren’t psychopathic enough to try to achieve it.