• seang96@spgrn.com
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    1 day 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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      21 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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        21 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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        20 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!