You could give Jeff Bezos all the money in the world and he’d still just be a giant fucking dork with a lot of money on lots of steroids and HGH with a plastic fiancé.
I remember fo years wanting to actually buy something from Amazon during those early days, but never really bought books. That changed about 10 years later when they started having everything and for better prices.
Looked up my first Amazon purchase. It was Edward Tufte’s “Visual Explanations” and I bought it in 1999. Fuck I’m old, I think I had just seen him speak and Amazon had the book. Someone at work said there’s this great company that stock every book.
Living in the PNW I remember when earnings would come out with losses, there would always be local news stories with a quote from Bezos explaining that it was all part of the plan and reassuring people to hold their stock and “trust me bro”
This feels like more of a warning. Here was a guy who was worth billions drove a shit car, and had a old door for a desk. Let’s be honest, he was a lot more discipled than 99% of people would be at that stage.
Then he got to a certain point and just completely off the rails from power and wealth. Just simplifying the story down to he’s an asshole feels like skipping over some important life lesson on how there is no limit to greed and in a long enough timeline it would crack anyone.
This whole class of people is the problem not just this one guy in my opinion
What a bunch of nerds. A bunch of silly nerdy geeks with their gigabytes, whatever that means. Oh look, my name on the screen! Those goofy nerds are at it again. What dorks!
I grew up watching 60 minutes. I’ve lost all respect for such journalism. There’s simply too many fawning interviews with people later revealed to be crooks. Realizing historians like David McCullough, biographers like Walter Isaacson and tv shows like Meet The Press, 60 Minutes, Good Morning Morons!, etc are compromised by commercialism & power, etc since I started watching when Nixon was pardoned and they all said nothing.
They really help perpetuate issues and problems way too much: see Iraq War ,& Trumpism.
None of these terms were compliments twenty four years ago.
At the same time Bezos doesn’t seem to laugh like that anymore. He has gone from upstart optimist to to one of the symbols of post capitalism drowning out progress.
Every generation of the 60 minutes show has been BAD.
This dipshit reporter is laughing at a then-billionaire. It’s cringe, and literally any story 60 minutes does on tech is just terrible and always has been.
I don’t like Bezos, but dammit, making fun of that kind of success is terrible, stupid reporting. What complete morons. What sucks is the show is still around, still creating terrible news reports.
Definitely seems a lot more human and down-to-earth then despite already being one of the richest people in the world, so that much is commendable. Interesting human case study to say the least.
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You could give Jeff Bezos all the money in the world and he’d still just be a giant fucking dork with a lot of money on lots of steroids and HGH with a plastic fiancé.
The last few minutes are pretty damn prophetic.
The interviewer comes across as a complete ass considering where we are today.
I remember fo years wanting to actually buy something from Amazon during those early days, but never really bought books. That changed about 10 years later when they started having everything and for better prices.
Looked up my first Amazon purchase. It was Edward Tufte’s “Visual Explanations” and I bought it in 1999. Fuck I’m old, I think I had just seen him speak and Amazon had the book. Someone at work said there’s this great company that stock every book.
Living in the PNW I remember when earnings would come out with losses, there would always be local news stories with a quote from Bezos explaining that it was all part of the plan and reassuring people to hold their stock and “trust me bro”
The laugh of Satan!
This feels like more of a warning. Here was a guy who was worth billions drove a shit car, and had a old door for a desk. Let’s be honest, he was a lot more discipled than 99% of people would be at that stage.
Then he got to a certain point and just completely off the rails from power and wealth. Just simplifying the story down to he’s an asshole feels like skipping over some important life lesson on how there is no limit to greed and in a long enough timeline it would crack anyone.
This whole class of people is the problem not just this one guy in my opinion
Man, that was peak sleazy downtown. I miss that “downmarket” teriyaki joint and all the rest of the attendant wildness I grew up with.
What a bunch of nerds. A bunch of silly nerdy geeks with their gigabytes, whatever that means. Oh look, my name on the screen! Those goofy nerds are at it again. What dorks!
“What we’re reading: Song of the South”
lol
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A whole half-gigabyte of data a day, you say?
He was still semi-human at this point.
I grew up watching 60 minutes. I’ve lost all respect for such journalism. There’s simply too many fawning interviews with people later revealed to be crooks. Realizing historians like David McCullough, biographers like Walter Isaacson and tv shows like Meet The Press, 60 Minutes, Good Morning Morons!, etc are compromised by commercialism & power, etc since I started watching when Nixon was pardoned and they all said nothing.
They really help perpetuate issues and problems way too much: see Iraq War ,& Trumpism.
i was 15 when amazon started up, if only i could jump back in time and invest a few paychecks in that stupid company…
He laughs like Elmer Fudd.
Pour one out for good ol’ Scaryaki
And he’s been laughing ever since….
Time travel
Nerds, geeks, dorks.
None of these terms were compliments twenty four years ago.
At the same time Bezos doesn’t seem to laugh like that anymore. He has gone from upstart optimist to to one of the symbols of post capitalism drowning out progress.
Every generation of the 60 minutes show has been BAD.
This dipshit reporter is laughing at a then-billionaire. It’s cringe, and literally any story 60 minutes does on tech is just terrible and always has been.
I don’t like Bezos, but dammit, making fun of that kind of success is terrible, stupid reporting. What complete morons. What sucks is the show is still around, still creating terrible news reports.
I really miss Osaka Teriyaki, Amazon’s still here so we’re living in the worst time line.
Cool, so he was a smug prick then also
Huh, he was already a multi-billionaire by 1999?
Definitely seems a lot more human and down-to-earth then despite already being one of the richest people in the world, so that much is commendable. Interesting human case study to say the least.
This feels like a hit piece, which is comical given the end result.
“[The improvised desk is] a Symbol of spending money on things that matter to customers, and not spending money on things that don’t.”
Fast forward 20-odd years and he spends five billion dollars to go to space for fun.
350 floppy discs….dam.
The condescending snorts and huffs from the interviewer throughout.