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1/ Amazon is an aggregation of resources made available through a series of interfaces. With AWS and Catalog, the resources were computing power and a monetizable ecommerce catalog, respectively, and the interfaces were corresponding web portals and APIs." zackkanter.com/2019/03/13/wha…
2/ "Software developers [can] access [the APIs] programmatically. In order to thrive at ‘internet scale,’ Amazon would need to open itself up at every facet to outside feedback loops. Amazon would have to become just one of many customers for each of its internal services.”
3/ "Bezos did not meticulously assemble Amazon into the collection of high-growth businesses that it is today; he ‘merely’ designed Amazon’s algorithm." Platforms, Platform, Platforms.
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1/ "Brilliance can’t be taught, but the operational stuff can be. Do you have operational instincts? Who cares? If you work with me for six months, I can give you enough prowess and process to be able to go run something, and do something with it.” Bill Campbell (AKA "coach").
2/“You need a leader. You have to go out and recruit the best person you can who knows how to create an innovation culture. Give that person license to hire. Get yourself some teams. Recruit people who have the ‘DNA’ that you want.” Coach Campbell
3/ “He or she doesn’t need to be personally the most innovative person, but he or she needs to know how to foster innovation. It is all about people. If you have the right people, you will end up with the right culture.” Coach Campbell
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Falcon Heavy’s center core and two side boosters land upright today. Amazing innovations. A different question: is the benefit of these innovations producer surplus or all consumer surplus? Does innovation make GDP go up or mostly down? Is there pricing power? How big is the TAM?
You can see what innovations in launch systems (e.g., re-use) have done to rocket launch prices in the chart. Prices are *way* down. You can fit a lot of 400 kilogram satellites on the Falcons. The 64,000 kilogram question is: what is the elasticity of demand for rocket launch?
What the Falcon Heavy launch today proves is that people who claim innovation is slowing are out of the damn minds if you look at what is happening at a microeconomics level. A rocket and two side boosters landed standing up and can be reused. Magical! cnbc.com/2019/04/11/liv…
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1/ "You can name people who are richer than Rich Barton, but you can’t name very many people who have his track record. You will find very few people in this country who have as many times created something from nothing.” Nick Hanauer. A chapter on Barton: amazon.com/Lessons-Entrep…
2/ "User-generated content models are magic because the more reviews you have of hotels, for instance, the more it attracts users to the site. And the more users you have the more reviews you get. This is a very simple, elegant example of a positive feedback system." Rich Barton
3/ "We didn’t have much money so we couldn’t invest in advertising, but we knew the most important 'P' of the Marketing Mix 5 P’s is 'Product.' So, we built a highly provocative product (with the Zestimate), and married that to PR." Rich Barton. Low CAC is a wonderful thing.
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