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Which large tech companies you think will last 20+ years?
Google - invested heavily in G+ to catchup with fb and failed. AI efforts are progressive rather than game changing new area. Self driving car not here yet. Ad business cash cow. Cloud business is catch up aws and azure. Will likely turn out as G+. Android thanks to Schmidt on Apple board. What next? Apple - milking on iPhone. Services not growing/disruptive as Tim perhaps hoped. Facebook - failing on oculus, dating/privacy. Surviving on copying. Devices/portal 3rd or 4th place. Watch/videos initiative is fail. Microsoft- capitalized on install base to compete with aws but what next? Amazon - failed with phone but made success with echo/Alexa. AWS is killing it. E-commerce continues to chip in. Logistics network massive growth. Seems like only company that knows what to do next and succeed without having to copy or buy big?
Amazon was founded by a business person, not by engineers like the others. That's why it's solving business problems, not engineering problems. It does not shy away from issues like physical distribution networks, hiring hundreds of thousands of warehouse workers etc. It seems to be paying off.
Dunno what you mean here. Jeff Bezos was summa cum laude with a degree is electrical engineering and CS
And never really worked in this capacity
Totally biased post lol Take Apple for example. Apple made more profit last quarter than Amazon in it's entire history. I guess Apple does know what it's doing But nice try.
Apple did know what to do. Or Steve Jobs did know what to do. As did Google with search and ads, Microsoft with windows and office. It’s doesn’t seem to be the case anymore as much as amazon. Don’t be butt hurt. The reason all these are so big is because they knew what to do.
"seem" is subjective, so your biased opinion doesn't matter. You're probably looking for a silver lining for working for Amazon because it's a company that treats its employees like cattle. Which is why I say nice try. Employees = cattle
"without copy": Amazon Video & Amazon Music & tens of failing projects that I dont even know
All wrapped into Prime, which is an industry game changer.
Tell that to Costco and Sam's club?
Lol the Twitch/Amazon guy saying only Amazon knows what they are doing
I’ve worked at multiple of these ‘big name’ companies and they all have successes and failures in the records. Unless you are actually in one you don’t know what it thinks internally / long term strategy is
Hilarious how they think this post is not biased and subjective lol But I admire their attempt 😉
Apple didn’t make a comeback because OSX was so great they were able to because Microsoft had done such a piss poor job with windows. Windows was 10+ years behind what we were doing with a GUI in Linux. The reason this happened (view from outside) was because MS thought they were so far ahead of competition that they didn’t even have to worry about others. Amazon can do the same thing with any of their market leading orgs. AWS already lost ground in the past when we focused so heavily on large customers. Turned out the small start ups were turning to google as their cloud platform because they catered more to them than we were. That wasn’t something we hadn’t addressed as that’s who founded AWS, the small start ups. It’s just something we stopped looking at. If a few of those small start ups become huge on google, that’s a major loss for AWS (see Netflix and Dropbox as examples). Instead of focusing on all of the things amazon is doing better than other big tech companies maybe you should focus on what they’re doing better, why and how?
Yeah, Ballmer fucked Microsoft for a kind time and it went through a long period of being badly managed. I think in recent years they have been doing much better than those days.
*woosh*
Typical Amazon post, except that it is under Twitch tag
Amazon seems to suck to work at. The back weighted vesting schedule is tilted toward the employee. Plus it seems like they have an aggressive performance improvement criteria.
You get cash in the first two years equal to the value of the vesting, so, I think the vesting schedule is great. If you wanted stock all four years just buy it with the cash. Cash gives you certainty for the first while and by the time you start vesting RSUs there's a couple years growth baked in so much less chance you're underwater and in fact most people saw significant gains. We do have aggressive performance management, but I don't believe it's quite as aggressive asFacebook's PSC / up or out system. You guys do get free food though whereas we get 🍌
What do you mean you get cash equal to the value of the vesting?
No one really knows what the market or consumers want. Consumers don't even know. I think the reason why Amazon is doing so well is they have culture of inovation and don't limit themselves to single market. Imagine if Amazon said early on "we're just a book store so we're not going to go into anything else" they wouldn't be the company they are today. It comes down to how willing a company is to really trying new ideas even if the idea is not in a area they already do business in. Most companies slowly die because they not willing to do this. You only need one or two ideas to win big for you to be a success.
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