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Comment on Alexa had “no profit timeline,” cost Amazon $25 billion in 4 years

It could’ve helped 0 people… because people with the $25 billion want to say “Alexa, do this”, instead of sitting on their sofas an reveling on how they sent $60/year to help someone they don’t know, out of which 90% went to finance the people helping, not the helped ones.

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t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Consumers didn’t themselves have, or pay Amazon, the $25b, Amazon had it.

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- jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It wasn’t an investment round, Amazon got it from customers. Then, from among the options of:
  
  Let customers say "Alexa do this"
  
  Give each customer a $60/year discount coupon
  
  Spend it on charity
  
  Build a 300ft tall golden statue of Jeff Bezos
  
  …Amazon decided that people would give it even more money, if it did the Alexa thing.
  
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