wikked thoughts by Waqas Ahmed

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Harvard Business Review: Amazon’s strategy

Found this to be a fairly interesting read. Harvard Business Review interviews Jeff Bezos and talks about strategic bets. I’m happy to see a shout-out for Tagging in 2007.

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Choice tidbits: “I’ll tell you a story about an incident that I’m sure is part of the reason we are what we are. Sometime around May of 1997 we were put on a deathwatch by a well-known industry pundit. His argument was a simple one: Barnes & Noble had just launched their website, and we had only 125 employees at the time, and something like $60 million in annual sales… They had 30,000 employees at that time, and $3 billion in sales.”

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