“I couldn’t afford to make any films, but I was always interested in literature and film,” she said.
“If you say that you’re unable to do so, you’re threatened with loss of employment or told that you can find work elsewhere, at least that was what my manager told me,” said one carrier, who didn’t feel comfortable sharing his name.
“I was like, ‘Crap, I need some of that.’ They got me and all I had to do was literally hit a button. That’s incredibly valuable,” said Nordstrom at the Milken Institute Global Conference.
“Big employers have to sell the urban lifestyle, which includes how to get around,” said Archambault. “I moved here [to SLU] with a suburban mindset. We had two cars, so we wanted to buy a second parking spot. Then I realized we don’t need two cars. How do you sell that different way of living?”
“Amazon is opaque about Echo sales volume, but we were able to estimate both past and future sales using our proprietary consumer research and a handful of third-party reports on virtual assistant-enabled speakers,” said Michele Anderson, a partner at Activate. “By the end of its first full year of sales (Echo was only available to Prime members until mid-2015), our analysis shows that Echo will have sold 4.4 million units in the U.S. and maybe even more. In contrast, iPhone sold approximately 4.8 million units in the U.S. in the first year after its availability. When one considers the different unit requirements for a product for individuals rather than households, the fact that they are even in the same ballpark is fairly striking.”
“Culture wise, Amazon really depends on the team. I’ve heard retail teams are crap, but AWS, Amazon Publishing, Amazon Studios, Amazon Instant Video, Prime Air, etc. have a more startup like culture. There was a NYTimes article about people being bullied so much they were crying at their desks. This turned into a meme of sorts, because I’m sure those cases were egregious and not the norm. The constant reciting of the leadership principles is kind of culty.
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“I hope someday that some of the garages that we built in Seattle will be used as maybe?urban FCs (fulfillment centers), or something like that, to be able to put them to different use. Perhaps wine storage,” he said, to laughter from the crowd. “I hope they’re not always filled with cars, and that we will someday have some great transportation.”
“In general, Amazon’s device philosophy has been to sell the product (Kindle, Fire Tablet, Fire Stick, and even the Fire Phone…) at cost and capture margin on the services it provides when consumers use the product,” he wrote in the report last year. “We see increasing evidence that Amazon’s approach to Alexa is following a similar path.”
“For too long, we have watched the detrimental impact of Amazon’s business on our communities and the independent bookselling world,” Powell wrote. “We understand that in many communities, Amazon — and big box retail chains — have become the only option. And yet when it comes to our local community and the community of independent bookstores around the U.S., we must take a stand.
“I spent many, many hours there,” Jorgensen said. “The company has become in part what it is because we all worked our butts off down there. We can’t take all the credit, but a lot of people hustling for many years helped the company succeed. There was a lot of blood, sweat and tears.”