“Jeff Bezos is, for sure, the smartest person I’ve ever worked directly with,” Hanauer said. “He is a remarkable entrepreneur. I wouldn’t say I’m a great fan of his moral reasoning, but he’s an extraordinary commercial entrepreneur and just a deeply insightful and strategic thinker … I have definitely pivoted hard away from admiration for people who just make a lot of money and towards people who make the world a better place. And so the way in which I process who I respect and admire has changed dramatically over the last 10 years.”
“The conversations that we had out there were much easier, frankly, because people knew us from the HQ2 worldwide press that we were getting,” he said. “Washington, D.C., and the Washington region wasn’t as much of a surprise to them. Plus I feel like our pitch was a little bit easier to make because we put a lot of time and energy into how we were organizing ourselves around HQ2.”
“One of the nice things?about adding new categories is that you get through nice efficiencies?by having?a common fleet of drivers,” he?said.?As the service matures, he said it’s very realistic that they would have to hire more drivers.
“That’s why I chose to work in wind,” she said. “The industry is developing so quickly at the moment. Unlike oil and gas that have been around for so long and are set in their ways - wind is a pioneering area.”
“Only a billionaire would say being a billionaire is overrated. I want to find out for myself please.” — GeekWire reader Stonetrails responding to Gates’ comments.
“I’m building a new team going after a totally new area for Amazon. I’m hiring cloud and mobile developers and testers, program managers, and product managers,?he writes on his LinkedIn profile, which describes the position as director of “something secret.”
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“The range of mine is 35 miles,” he said. “I’ve had it for three years now, and I’ve put five tanks of gas in it in those three years.”
“Our business approach is to sell premium hardware at roughly breakeven prices,” he writes. “We want to make money when people use our devices – not when people buy our devices. We think this aligns us better with customers. For example, we don’t need our customers to be on the upgrade treadmill. We can be very happy to see people still using four-year-old Kindles!”
“It’s a losing proposition to open a restaurant in San Francisco these days,” said Erik Reese, a restaurant specialist from TRI Commercial, a real estate company based in Northern California.
“Separable means almost as separable organizationally as APIs are for software,” he explained. “Single-threaded means they don’t work on anything else.”