Montgomery: Amazon spent $150M and four years developing Alexa
Josh Montgomery · 1164 Want Your Own Alexa, Without Amazon Influence? Mycroft Raises $8m For Opensource Voice Stack · Oct 1, 2018 · at 3:16
Josh Montgomery, founder of open-source voice assistant Mycroft, compares his company's early stage of development to Amazon's capital investment into Alexa.
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“If you look at what Amazon built, they spent nearly four years, made three acquisitions, and spent a hundred and fifty million dollars Before their Super Bowl ad in 2016”
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