TBF it’s not the most original name
Many things to hate Amazon for but this feels nitpicky unless it was deliberate
Bezos picked Amazon.com because it was a simple, recognizable word that would show up at the top in alphabetic listing (like Yellow Pages)
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.
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
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. 🙄
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.
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!
Nah, that’s just survivor’s bias talking.
And Bezos survived and thrived. So, what are you saying?
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!
That there were 100 people with the same idea as Bezos but failed.
Name names. I watched Amazon roll out, though I completely missed AWS and what all went on. Still, name another online retailer that got it right.
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.
I think many people imagined a dystopian corporate-tech future, most weren’t psychopathic enough to try to achieve it.
Take my angry upvote. Hate that you’re right this instance.
I’m not even sure how but I remember making spending cash in college buying as reselling books and video games on Amazon.com did they even sell other things at the time?
Amazon was only books for such a short period of time.
Speaking of which, there’s a downtown book store I will some day check out, if I ever can. Just looked them up to see if they’re local or chain and it looks like they’re local despite the kinda generic shop name ( name withheld for privacy concerns ).
IDK if they have manga, but I’d still probably be able to find a book there I’d like.
