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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.”
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.”
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 …”