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- Ebooks are the most important invention of the XXIth century.

- Jeff Bezos is a God.

- A bunch of weird corporate tactics worked for us at the time so they are lessons on how to make a successful product.

Yes, there's definitely a bit of survivorship bias going on here. The lesson isn't to compete with yourself, or ignore all of your advisors, or trying to pivot your business model after a crash etc etc. There are plenty of businesses who have failed doing all these things. I suspect that Jeff Bezos had a vision, and these are more side effects rather than the reason for its success.

Some of the stuff they say are completely inaccurate

He claims Kindle as the first ereader to use an eInk screen

Sony ereader launched a YEAR before and had an eink screen

Also this guy seems to be a worshipper rather than an unbiased or somewhat objective observer

Yeah people might want to read "The Inside Story Of Jeff Bezos’s Fire Phone Debacle" for a counterpoint

https://www.fastcompany.com/3039887/under-fire

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