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Alex Taussig • Drinking from the Firehose | Alex Taussig, Lightspeed | Substack
Laura Hinds
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Jenson and Bezos were at loggerheads. Jenson had tried to placate angry investors by getting the company to profitability. He raised the last round of capital from European bonds at a critical time and forced Bezos to make tough decisions when the company’s runway was getting short. But he also pushed to raise prices and campaigned against free shi
... See moreBrad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Laurie Nuzzo
@lnuzzo
It was late 1996, and eBay’s online auction business had been solidly profitable since it was launched; the company did not need a cent. But Pierre Omidyar, twenty-nine, the original founder, and his new partner, Jeff Skoll, thirty-one, were the rare entrepreneurs who knew they needed to hire a CEO and other seasoned executives with skills they lac
... See moreRandall E. Stross • eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work
There was a recession in '73 and Hewlett-Packard had to cut back 10 percent. Instead of laying off 10 percent of the people, they cut everyone's salary by 10 percent and gave us one day off every two weeks. So basically they said "nobody goes without a job." And I like that sort of thing.