Tag: jeff bezos
The real story behind Jeff Bezo’s Fire Phone debacle
Fast Company on the real story behind Jeff Bezo’s Fire Phone debacle. Introduced with grand ambitions last summer, the Fire Phone is widely seen as a fiasco. Originally priced at $199 (with contract) and intended as an iPhone competitor, it now sells for 99 cents, and Amazon has taken a $170 million write-down largely attributable…
Bezos defends Amazon’s lack of profits, stance on publishers
Jennifer Saba wrote on Reuters about Jeff Bezos defending Amazon’s lack of profits and the company’s stance on publishers. His comments come a day after Moody’s Investors Service downgraded its outlook on Amazon to “negative,” citing the company’s upcoming debt offering and the “lack of visibility” about how the funds would be deployed. Investors have…
MacKenzie Bezos wrote an Amazon review of a book on Jeff Bezos and Amazon
MacKenzie Bezos wrote an Amazon review of *The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon. For example, when the author does include people whose accounts of a supportive and inspiring culture contradict his thesis, he refers to them dismissively throughout the book as robots. In an archive of the thousands of thank you…