Is the lack of strong PM culture at Facebook and Google the driver of almost no innovation relative to Amazon?
Google and Facebook are heavily engineering led with PM having minimal impact. Amazon has a much stronger product manager & customer culture.
I think a lot of the innovation comes from Jeff and the values he breeds. During my time at Amazon, and in my experience, for the most part, PMs were a nuisance. To be fair, I was never on a "product" team, so I was usually dealing with too many PMs trying to squeeze their shit through infrastructure bottlenecks that wouldn't scale. It's probably different on a product team, where a PM is liaising with customers and working out priorities and stuff.
Startups = product and/or GTM innovation. FAANG are too big and bloated for innovation - more innovation in political empire building and turf wars these days. FAANG are where you go to make money not innovate.
You can throw the N in there, it applies to them as well.
Is this a joke? Amazon and innovation. It’s an ecomm player with a terrible voice assistant products. By ecomm, I mean a company that was started by a hedge fund guy that knew how to work Wall Street. No profits for how many years? Lastly, tier low talent. Alexa is a piece of junk. AWS will gets its ass kicked pretty soon - just wait.
Been waiting for 6 years. Aws is a money making machine. Look up how much revenue that division makes. Talk crap
Innovation? Amazon? I don't remember any.
Triggered.
Yup. I wonder if someday Amazon will be more than just an online bookstore.