The Ledger
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.
why aren't all 62 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 2 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Nomad Aggressively Bought Amazon at $30 Per Share in 2005
“And so they start buying Amazon aggressively in 2005 around 30 dollars per share.”
Amazon Saved $20,000 Annually by Removing Vending Machine Light Bulbs
“Amazon went so far as to save 20,000 dollars a year by removing the light bulbs from the vending machines in its offices.”
Jeff Bezos still owns relentless.com and redirects it to Amazon
“In fact, to this day, you might already know this, but Jeff Bezos owns the domain relentless.com. If you go in your browser and you type relentless.com, it will forward to Amazon for a brief moment. He's He loved the word so much he was thinking about naming A…”
The Amazon Kindle Launched at $399 in 2007 and Sold Out Instantly
“The Kindle goes on sale for the first time All the way in November of 2007. It retails for 399 dollars and would hold 200 books. It's sold out in less than six hours.”
Physical Media Generated Over 70% of Amazon's Revenue in 2003
“At this time, I think 77% of Amazon, 70 or 77%, somewhere around there, of Amazon's revenue came from, like, physical books, books, CDs, music, that kind of thing, right?”
Bezos: Quantitative Data and Customer Anecdotes Must Check Each Other
“Data and anecdotes make a powerful combination when they're in sync, and they're a valuable check on one another when they're not.”
Bezos: Failure and invention are inseparable twins requiring real experimentation
“Failure and invention are inseparable twins. He just said, Amazon will be a place, the best place in the world to invent. So failure and invention are inseparable twins. To invent, you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it's going to work, it'…”
Amazon Mandates Bi-Annual Customer Support Duty for Corporate Staff
“Amazon has a program called Customer Connection, which is mandatory for corporate employees. Every two years, the corporate employee is required to become a customer service agent for a few days. They have to listen in on calls, watch email and chat interactio…”
The Kindle Was Amazon's First Product Created Using the PR/FAQ
“And so the Kindle is going to be the first product in which they used and they created using this press release approach.”
Jeff Bezos required Amazon product proposals to be written as press releases
“Every time a new feature or a product was proposed, Jeff Bezos decreed that the narrative should take the shape of a mock press release. The goal was to get employees to distill a pitch into its purest essence.”
Bezos appended his 1997 shareholder letter to annual updates for 23 years
“And he tells you that because he appends it, the 1997 shareholder letter, To every single shareholder letter he's going to write over the next 23 years.”
Relentless.com still redirects to Amazon because Jeff Bezos owns the domain
“He toyed around with the idea of naming Amazon relentless. He was going to, instead of amazon.com, it was going to be relentless.com. In fact, to this day, when you type in relentless.com, it forwards, he still owns that domain, it forwards to amazon.com.”