210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts after CEO ultimatum

Re:210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts af... by s73v3r on Friday May 08, 2015 @05:53PM (#9514364)

I believe Zappos is in Las Vegas. And they're not really a tech company, although they use tech.

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Re:210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts af... by todd3834 on Friday May 08, 2015 @08:05PM (#9514836)

> they're not really a tech company

By your definition, what is a tech company?

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Re:210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts af... by braythwayt on Friday May 08, 2015 @09:51PM (#9515119)

My definition is that they use tech as their differentiator and/or as their value proposition.

You can be a tech company and sell commodities, Amazon is an example of that.

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Re:210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts af... by rplst8 on Friday May 08, 2015 @11:00PM (#9515309)

Amazon has not only used technology as their differentiator/equalizer, they've also innovated in other areas of technology and now resell that to others. Amazon is definitely a tech company on that measure. Zappos - they sell shoes. Now maybe they've done some innovating/inventing themselves, but I don't think they are known for that aspect of their company.

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Re:210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts af... by jonknee on Saturday May 09, 2015 @01:16AM (#9515611)

Not sure if you're aware, but Zappos is owned by Amazon.

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Re:210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts af... by kyllo on Friday May 08, 2015 @08:45PM (#9514936)

Guessing he or she means they sell shoes, not software or hardware.

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