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Re:Amazon’s Next Mission: Using Alexa to Help You Pay Friends by kevan on Saturday April 07, 2018 @06:54PM (#16783509)
Amazon as a whole is willing to try things that might fail[1]. Yes I work at Amazon, yes it sounds a bit cultish, so be it. When people aren't afraid of losing their jobs because of one product misstep it's a lot easier to deliver stuff quickly. Instead of getting bogged down in endless meetings debating hypotheticals you can ship an MVP and get real customer feedback about whether the decision was correct. Every company pays lip service to taking smart risks but few actually follow through on it.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2016/04/05/jeff-bezos-c...

Re:Amazon’s Next Mission: Using Alexa to Help You Pay Friends by rckclmbr on Saturday April 07, 2018 @07:28PM (#16783668)
How does working on things that might fail sound cultish? I think that's pretty typical
Re:Amazon’s Next Mission: Using Alexa to Help You Pay Friends by kevan on Saturday April 07, 2018 @08:01PM (#16783770)
I meant that it sounds cultish to hype on the "great place to fail" line. It reads like recruiter BS to me, but happens to be pretty accurate.