Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
by PaulDavisThe1st on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @08:38PM
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1) The name "Amazon.com" was chosen in 1994 (or possibly January 1995).
2) Subsequently, the company never considered any other name
3) I'm older than you and Jeff
4) I don't have a photographic memory
5) I've been asked twice in court, on Amazon's behalf, to remember things that happened/took place/were done back then.
[ EDIT: added "subsequently" for clarity ]
Ok fine, but in your original post you don't provide any dates, and you assert that:
> It had a name, and that name was "Cadabra".
Now you're saying something different. So it's one thing or another. Maybe just clarify the "when" of these things as you remember them. Not having a go at you.
This seems like nitpicking.
Especially because "Amazon" being chosen in '94 doesn't mean Cadabra wasn't the name it was chosen to replace. How is Paul "saying something different"?
Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
by ChrisIsTaken on Thursday February 04, 2021 @03:50AM
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Registration for Cadabra was filed in July 1994. I suspect this was chosen because Bezos' attorney had discovered that his first preference "Abracadabra" was taken.
Amazon was a much better choice.
Who cares? It's getting into deep time (internet-wise), memories fade, do we care, I don't despite opening my first Amazon account ~1998. It was called "something", big deal. Not everyone has photographic memories of these things, perhaps Paul does, but wasn't asked to recall those memories. Again, who cares? And they might have worked through twenty other names after Paul left. I'm 54 I would have trouble remembering exact details of important things from 25 years ago, and Jeff is older than me, so give the guy a break, it's likely off of his event horizon until he writes "the book".