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

• 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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