Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
by jasoncrawford on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @06:40PM
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I heard the same story (I joined in 2004). The version I heard was that Jeff was driving cross-country NY -> Seattle and was on the phone with his lawyer about incorporation papers, and the lawyer misheard “Cadabra” as “Cadaver”. That's when Jeff knew he needed a better name.
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Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
by lostlogin on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @07:32PM
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This instantly reminded me of the story about Microsoft posting a dev a dead fish.
https://olhardigital.com.br/en/2020/05/23/news/the-strange-s...
Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
by astrange on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @08:35AM
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This is not the most interesting story about Scott Forstall and Microsoft. Did you know he invented WordArt?
That's an interesting story, but that article and others on the site have weird issues that can't be put down as non-native English. Extra words that make no sense (Steve Jobs founded us), and phrases added into the ends of sentences along with spacing/punctuation mistakes (But please, pretend you’re interested in everyone’s questions, ”Jobs said at the time, as carry* the website Windows Central.*) Odd issues to see on a news website. Also, all postings are double-dated, once within the text and once after.
Indeed, Jeff talks about it in this 2001 interview :
https://youtu.be/p7FgXSoqfnI?t=7m05s