Jeff Bezos's 1997 Letter to Amazon.com Shareholders

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by collistaeed • 15 years ago

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jonburs• 15 years ago

How the world has changed:

"We established long-term relationships with many important strategic partners, including America Online, Yahoo!, Excite, Netscape, GeoCities, AltaVista, @Home, and Prodigy"

angstrom• 15 years ago

If that's not a reminder of fleeting importance.

TillE• 15 years ago

And the consequences of failing to evolve.

Netscape made a mess of its browser, and GeoCities could have conceivably become a social / blogging / personal site platform that we'd be hailing as the next big thing.

zaidf• 15 years ago

For all the heat yahoo gets, they are still doing reasonably well. There aren't that many billion dollar dot coms that survived the crash and moreover provided some real value.

salemh• 15 years ago

As well as a very solid engineering department, despite the other structures surrounding the department.

js2• 15 years ago

And his 1994 ad seeking Unix developers: http://groups.google.com/group/mi.jobs/msg/d81b6c1fa8f361fc

Jeff Bezos's 1997 Letter to Amazon.com Shareholders

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