“There’s nothing easy in Seattle; you’re the fastest growing city in the entire Unites States, you’re going to have traffic problems,” Leiweke said. “The traffic problems are not Key Arena’s, the traffic problems are Seattle’s, and we have to solve them.”
“We have integrated with over eight different SME accounting softwares and the top e-commerce platforms to pull alternative data for our credit control procedure,” Chan said. Qupital require SMEs either to purchase trade credit insurance or to sign the beneficiary to them. Trade credit insurance protects the transactions so that if the counterparty doesn’t pay on time or goes bankrupt, the insurance company will pay up to 90 percent of the invoice value.
“There’s a lot of hiring to support the projects that we’re investing in,” he said. “A lot of them are in operations, but there’s certainly a lot here in Seattle and other office roles.”
“They are not in the loose diamond business. Before I got here, word is that they tried to be in that business, and it didn’t work out. I don’t know why,” he said. “The fact of the matter is, when we talk about defensible barriers, 150,000 stones and 25 percent of the world’s polished, those are really big defensible barriers. It’s not guaranteed that we can defend them, but they are pretty big barriers.”
“When it comes to working together on cloud, it was actually pretty easy,” said Steven Martin, the Windows Azure general manager who drove the deal for Microsoft. “We said, ‘We want to work together in a way that works for you, that works for our customers, and works for us. We’re not looking to do anything to try to … ”
“We’re closing in on 200 million users on our platform right now,” Schulman told Bloomberg News. “At that scale, it’s hard for any retailer to think about not accepting PayPal.”
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“We could have built a suburban campus,” Bezos?said, noting that a location outside of the city might have saved the company money. “I think it would have been the wrong decision.”
“What would?you say if you bought music CDs from a company 15 years ago, and then 15 years later that company licensed the rights from the record companies to give you the MP3 versions of those CDs… and then to top it off, did that for you automatically and for free?” said Bezos. “Well, starting today, it’s available to all of our customers – past, present, and future – at no cost. We love these opportunities to do something unexpected for our customers.”
“We recognize there are many factors that went into Amazon’s decision, but the Seattle City Council’s focus on dividing the pie of economic opportunity rather than growing the pie for the city and the region is undoubtedly among them,” said McIlwain. “One only needs to look at the Amazon HQ2 RFP … to understand the alignment Amazon is looking for with the state and local government for their new headquarters.”
“Well, it’d be fantastic if Amazon just came clean. What irritates the heck out of me is that Amazon seems to just be planting all these puff pieces everywhere about all the jobs they create, and Amazon, no doubt, creates a lot of jobs. But then you can’t look at the jobs they’re creating in isolation. They open up a fulfillment warehouse that employs, let’s call it 20,000 people. How many retail workers worked at the malls that went out of business because of Amazon?”