“As a result of the pricing conspiracy, prices of e-books have exploded, jumping as much as 50 percent. When an e-book version of a best-seller costs close to – or even more than – its hard-copy counterpart, it doesn’t take a forensic economist to see that this is evidence of market manipulation.”
“In the US, we’re executing a new pilot with Amazon with a limited Nike product assortment,” Parker said on Nike’s earnings conference call today.
“For matters that need us to press ahead, then we will not compromise. For responsibilities that we need to undertake, we will not shy away.”
“Data is our biggest asset,” he told the crowd, according to a translator.
“Amazon has invested over billion in its urban campus in Seattle and paid more than billion in compensation to its employees over the last seven years. We estimate these investments resulted in an additional billion to the city’s economy from 2010 to 2016 and created more than 50,000 additional jobs on top of our direct hires.”
“Amazon is opaque about Echo sales volume, but we were able to estimate both past and future sales using our proprietary consumer research and a handful of third-party reports on virtual assistant-enabled speakers,” said Michele Anderson, a partner at Activate. “By the end of its first full year of sales (Echo was only available to Prime members until mid-2015), our analysis shows that Echo will have sold 4.4 million units in the U.S. and maybe even more. In contrast, iPhone sold approximately 4.8 million units in the U.S. in the first year after its availability. When one considers the different unit requirements for a product for individuals rather than households, the fact that they are even in the same ballpark is fairly striking.”
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“He has very high standards. When I started the job, I had been at Amazon for five years and I had led a lot of different teams, and I think most people on my teams would argue that I had reasonably high standards, but it turned out I didn’t. Watching Jeff, I have never seen anybody with higher standards. One of the things you learn in watching … is that you actually can ask teams for a lot more than he thought was possible. And really smart, motivated, talented, ambitious people will stretch to those goals. He had a way of having really high standards, and then having everybody really stretch and aspire to those standards, which it turns out, when you run a big organization and you can’t attend all of the meetings, you can set reasonably high standards — I’ll say maybe even unreasonably high standards, reasonably high standards that people stretch to — it gives you a lot of leverage across the organization where you are not in all of those meetings…”
“Amazon is engaging in a long-term listening and engagement process to better understand the community’s needs. We’re committed to being a great neighbor – and ensuring our new headquarters is a win for all New Yorkers. Amazon makes substantial positive contributions to the economy, the communities where we operate, and to the lives and careers of our employees. We have created more than 250,000 full-time, full benefit jobs across the U.S. that now have a minimum an hour pay and we have invested more than 0 billion in the U.S. economy since 2011.”
“I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars, there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that. But once you get much beyond that, I have to tell you, it’s the same hamburger. Dick’s has not raised their prices enough. But being ambitious is good. You just have to pick what you enjoy doing.” — Bill Gates speaking to students at the University of Washington, referring to the Seattle hamburger joint Dick’s Drive-In.
“And we’re not stopping at video; our relationship with Amazon offers opportunities to delight our customers in ways that have never been done before,” JetBlue vice president Jamie Perry said in a Tuesday press release.