Only stating the facts as I saw them roll out. Remember, Amazon took off when dial-up was the thing. The big dogs ignored the internet, and even when they dipped their toes in, they didn’t understand consumers fucking off over tiny page load times. Bezos also figured out that consumers were scared of internet purchases and pioneered the “no questions asked, no return fee” model.
Those two statements are facts, as far as I know and remember.
Ah shit. Forgot where I was. No facts lemmy don’t like.
Every other retailer at the time, brick-and-mortar or online, fucked up (eBay hung in there!), badly. Amazon isn’t telling me these tales, I watched it unfold in real time. I was starting my IT career, watching and learning, reading the news every day. El Reg FTW!
I made two points where Amazon excelled. Who else considered these and implemented/fixed them? Bezos figured out a few things that were broken and ran with it.
We could also credit the porn industry for making online credit card transactions secure. Bezos would have gone nowhere without that pioneering work. It all stacks.
Not calling the man a genius, just a man with good ideas at the right time and place who had the resources to execute. Kinda the dictionary definition of how to get rich; seed money from family or hard work, luck, brains and more hard work, all at once.
Some put together the work laid before them and rocked out. Zuckerberg took the groundwork MySpace laid, took the work he had already done, and god forbid me, “synergized” it. Stuff like that.
So, back on point, what exactly is not reality? Very few survived the dotcom bust, can’t think of another ATM. I’m sure there a few, but not like Amazon, and nothing like the monster AWS turned out to be. Counterpoints and examples?
Simping for a billionaire and you don’t even understand survivor bias. Hilarious.
Only stating the facts as I saw them roll out. Remember, Amazon took off when dial-up was the thing. The big dogs ignored the internet, and even when they dipped their toes in, they didn’t understand consumers fucking off over tiny page load times. Bezos also figured out that consumers were scared of internet purchases and pioneered the “no questions asked, no return fee” model.
Those two statements are facts, as far as I know and remember.
Ah shit. Forgot where I was. No facts lemmy don’t like.
Down with Bezos!
How many others tried this. You seem to have the idea that Amazon was the only one.
You’re taking for fact a tale from the legend of Amazon. A legend that isn’t faithful to reality.
Every other retailer at the time, brick-and-mortar or online, fucked up (eBay hung in there!), badly. Amazon isn’t telling me these tales, I watched it unfold in real time. I was starting my IT career, watching and learning, reading the news every day. El Reg FTW!
I made two points where Amazon excelled. Who else considered these and implemented/fixed them? Bezos figured out a few things that were broken and ran with it.
We could also credit the porn industry for making online credit card transactions secure. Bezos would have gone nowhere without that pioneering work. It all stacks.
Not calling the man a genius, just a man with good ideas at the right time and place who had the resources to execute. Kinda the dictionary definition of how to get rich; seed money from family or hard work, luck, brains and more hard work, all at once.
Some put together the work laid before them and rocked out. Zuckerberg took the groundwork MySpace laid, took the work he had already done, and god forbid me, “synergized” it. Stuff like that.
So, back on point, what exactly is not reality? Very few survived the dotcom bust, can’t think of another ATM. I’m sure there a few, but not like Amazon, and nothing like the monster AWS turned out to be. Counterpoints and examples?