Fire Phone
product on 9 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes · said 38 times in 21 episodes since 2017
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2024 9 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto): The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make When Scaling into Enterprises | E1115 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letters
- Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
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- Unpacking Amazon’s unique ways of working | Bill Carr (author of Working Backwards)
- Ep 70: Andrew McAfee on the Science Behind the World's Most Valuable Companies · Joe Lonsdale
- A Dozen Grueling Years At Amazon — With Kristi Coulter
- How to become a category pirate | Christopher Lochhead (Author of Play Bigger, Niche Down, more)
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2019 9 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- a16z Podcast | Fintech Revolution or Evolution?
- a16z Podcast | Principles and Algorithms for Work and Life
- a16z Podcast | Enough with the Old Stuff -- Time for New Questions in Mobile
- a16z Podcast | The Year Mobile Began to Truly Dominate Tech
- a16z Podcast | Mobile is Eating the World (and Apple is Gobbling Fastest)
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McAfee: Overconfident leaders inevitably overinvest in expensive pet projects
“Overconfidence will make you invest way too much money in, I don't know, like the metaverse, for example, or the fire phone, or your pet project. Overconfident successful leaders will have a very strong tendency To take their organizations in bad directions, w…”
Carr: Fire Phone failed because 3D effects solved no meaningful customer problem
“I would argue this is a case where we made the mistake of what we had a technology solution in mind, which was three D effects. And then, and we took that solution and we're then in search of a problem. I don't think it's solved any meaningful problems for cus…”
Rampell: Amazon's Fire Phone was a smart move against app store fees
“Amazon, they built the Fire Phone. Which ended up being a flop, but it was a very, very smart move for Amazon to do because they realize if I'm Amazon and I want to go sell a book to somebody, I'm not allowed to do that through Apple or through Google unless I…”