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Chambers: Nile will transform networking like AWS transformed cloud
“Think about what Cisco did to all the networking companies. Think about what Amazon did in the cloud. Think what Apple did in terms of ease of use. That really is what now is going to do this industry if we do it right.”
Caliri: Amazon Was More Helpful to Americans During Pandemic Than Government
“Amazon was far more helpful to many Americans than anything the government did”
Levi Criticizes Jeff Bezos Over Harsh Amazon Warehouse Working Conditions
“Are you really genuinely valuing the people working in your warehouses, or are you not? It would seem that you're not, or rather you could be doing that better when plenty of your warehouses are like, yo, our conditions are horrible. We can't even have a momen…”
Andreessen: Seattle tech executives' district elected a councilwoman seeking to nationalize them
“The district in Seattle, the city council district where the most Microsoft and Amazon executives lived, live elected a city council woman who's, who ran a platform of nationalizing Microsoft and Amazon.”
Frerichs: Goldman, Amazon, and Meta Are Dropping DEI/ESG Policies
“Corporate America, you're seeing again, Goldman Sachs, Amazon, Facebook, Meta, all dropping a lot of their DEI and ESG policies.”
McAfee: Amazon Teams That Minimized Cross-Dependencies Were Most Successful
“The teams that worked the hardest to reduce their dependencies were the ones that were most successful later on.”
Gerstner: Amazon reports 56% developer productivity gain with CodeWhisperer
“I think Amazon Code Whisperer, so this is a code generation co-pilot. Is reporting that they've seen 56% increase in engineering productivity as a result of using Code Whisper.”
Sirota: Big Tech Global Hubs Are Training International Engineering Ecosystems
“It's compounded by the fact that a lot of the best US companies have had to go to different markets, and so not only is the talent there, but then they're grooming them. So you've got Google offices all over, you've got Amazon offices all over, and so that is …”
Cook: Amazon uses the Toyota Production System at its Tracy warehouse
“And I was just touring Amazon's newest and largest, excuse me, newest and most modern warehouse, which is in Tracy, California, about two hours south of here. And they've embraced the Toyota production system in their fulfillment operations, and they, you go i…”
Abbott: Bezos priced Kindle at $9.99 to cannibalize Amazon's book business
“Jeff sort of incubated the Kindle project, which, if you look back, could be like, oh, you're
Sort of cannibalizing the biggest business you have, because now you're going to sell every single book for nine dollar 99 cents.
Yeah.
When the average prices of …”