“The market is so fresh that our focus will be on how to attract more users at present.”
“The overall theme is that Amazon could actually find profit margins with a fleet of drones,” writes ZDNet’s Larry Dignan. “These drones, which could carry up to five pounds for 10 miles, would cover 86 percent of the goods Amazon sells. Shipping costs would plummet and Amazon could depreciate its fleet of drones. In theory, Amazon’s bottom line could improve dramatically — unless Bezos finds some other venture to invest in.”
“Our gross profit margin had eroded to ~64%, and as of December, it’s approaching 74%. We’re shooting for 80+%, and I know we’ll get there in 2014,” said Bird, adding that the 134-person company plans to swing back to profitability in the third quarter.
“It’s full steam ahead,” Costa said. “Amazon isn’t going away, and neither are we.”
“The opportunity provided to us by the growth of the global internet is gigantic and our plan is to keep investing as we increase membership, revenue and operating margins,” Netflix CEO Reed Hastings wrote in the?quarterly shareholders letter.
“Our breakthrough came when we built a software tool that helped a local progressive political candidate nearly triple their vote share in a state-level election,” said Wallener. “We allowed social marketing with a level of time and location precision that you just can’t get using any of the typical tool flows.”
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“The idea that a solitary ‘consultant’ could possibly advise on such a vast and diverse group of humanity only reinforces the racialized pigeon-holing at the heart of the show’s concept,” the letter said.
“No doubt there is an increasing market here in the long-term,” Strauss said. “People pursue building solutions with unique design, comfort, energy-saving properties, security and sustainability.”
“Jeff has always told authors that it’s too early to write a history of Amazon, and frankly, he probably doesn’t want to spend time reflecting,” Stone said of Jeff Bezos declining interviews for his book. “I wasn’t surprised by that.”
“The number of websites that would now break if Amazon were to go down, and the growing pervasiveness of Amazon behind the scenes, is really quite impressive,” DeepField co-founder Craig Labovitz tells Wired.