The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Some of our earliest experiments were simply structuring the groups so that items for sale showed up as listings rather than just discussion posts.
Deborah Liu • The inside story of Facebook Marketplace
As an example, early on at eBay
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
Perhaps the single most important early invention from Amazon was the “promise date” for delivery, or perhaps we should say the “reliable promise date.” Bezos knew that if the book was in Ingram’s Oregon warehouse, he’d get it and be able to ship it on to his customer in two days.
Mike Shatzkin • The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Over the next two weeks, he met with Omidyar outside of Benchmark’s office and discovered that he was an anomalous kind of engineer, one who was consumed by the idea of community—every other sentence, he spoke about the eBay community, building the community, learning from the community, protecting the community. It was a passion similar to what, i
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