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?
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?