• jarfil@beehaw.org
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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.