“Chinese roses came into Europe and they brought wonderful new qualities - they had brighter colors, wonderful shiny leaves, a delicate scent, and petals like silk rather than heavy damask,” Potter said.
“He’s become iconic,” Gurley said. “He’s clearly the most respected CEO [by] Silicon Valley, without question.”
“E-commerce sites will benefit from partnering with and receiving certified approval from the most trusted e-commerce site in the U.S.,” he said.?“Given the hundreds of millions of shoppers?— Prime members and otherwise?—?around the world who likely have accounts with Amazon, the?Amazon Payments Partner Program launches from an envious position.? Right from the start, many, if not most, of those customers will happily click an Amazon payment button to confirm their orders quickly and securely.”
“Dr Wilson was an international humanitarian hero, he was one of us, and that’s why we memorize him as ‘a Nanjing citizen with blue eyes’,” said Tang.
“I talk to Alexa — I clearly don’t have a social life — I talk to Alexa and Google Home every morning,” Wallace said. “And I keep waiting — I talk to them quite a lot — and at some point they should know me well enough that they should know at what time of day what type of information and or content I want.”
“At Microsoft, a lot of the goals were aggregated,” he noted. “The CEO would have 15 or 20 goals; there was kind of a water-down effect. My goals rolled into these bigger goals. [Compared to Amazon], it felt different in terms of day-to-day operations.”
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“As a result of the pricing conspiracy, prices of e-books have exploded, jumping as much as 50 percent. When an e-book version of a best-seller costs close to – or even more than – its hard-copy counterpart, it doesn’t take a forensic economist to see that this is evidence of market manipulation.”
“I was really deeply involved in the scaling out of building physical space (for Amazon),” he said. “And I just saw how inefficient the industry was, and it all just sort of made sense to me in a moment, and from that point when it all came together, there was nothing else that I wanted to do.”
“Bias can show up at every stage of the machine learning workflow,” said Dr. Nashlie Sephus, an applied science manager for Amazon Web Services AI, introducing the new feature at re:Invent. “So even with the best possible intentions, and a whole lot of expertise, removing bias in machine learning models is difficult.”
“I don’t remember that at all,” Bezos said in response. “What I remember is that we matched competitor prices.”