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    3 months ago

    It could’ve helped 0 people… because people with the $25 billion want to say “Alexa, do this”, instead of sitting on their sofas an reveling on how they sent $60/year to help someone they don’t know, out of which 90% went to finance the people helping, not the helped ones.

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        3 months ago

        It wasn’t an investment round, Amazon got it from customers. Then, from among the options of:

        • Let customers say “Alexa do this”
        • Give each customer a $60/year discount coupon
        • Spend it on charity
        • Build a 300ft tall golden statue of Jeff Bezos

        …Amazon decided that people would give it even more money, if it did the Alexa thing.