“When people ask me, are you a retailer or an Internet company, I say, ‘Yes.’”
Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, keeping his business plan intentionally vague, Newsweek, 29 November 2004
Digerati say the cutest things.
“When people ask me, are you a retailer or an Internet company, I say, ‘Yes.’”
Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, keeping his business plan intentionally vague, Newsweek, 29 November 2004
“We found that customers didn’t want an integrated, all-in-one solution. No matter what we integrated, they wanted something different.”
HP executive Nora Denzel, on the company’s prolonged incompetence at coming up with products customers wanted to buy, News.com, 29 November 2004
“Apple’s stores have always been about being more than a store. Our goal is to be part of people’s lives.”
Apple retail chief Ron Johnson, on getting closer to customers’ wallets, Macworld UK, 18 November 2004
“People were not signing up for AOL or canceling it because of news and sports and search.”
America Online vice chairman Ted Leonsis, rediscovering for what has to be the tenth time that subscribers don’t care about content, The New York Times, 22 November 2004