After nearly 25 years, I’m publishing the Distributed Computing Manifesto in its entirety, an internal document from the early days of Amazon that transformed the architecture of our e-commerce platform. https://t.co/IKR5su3i1M
Good biz dev: American Airlines agreed to buy 20 Boom Supersonic planes and has option on 40 more (following United Airlines' conditional agreement a year ago to buy 15); kudos @bscholl, @ksavitt, @Jeffholden, @satbirk and all of @boomsupersonic https://t.co/NQQ0quDws8
Trying to breathe new life into https://t.co/JhBtgv9iQw - appears covid fog is wearing off. Plan to hire contractors to help seed other listings within large DMA's. The thought of killing this project has crossed my mind at least 5 times, but I can't bring myself to do it (yet)
Good biz dev: brand licensing
• “[Slot] Machine X can generate, let’s say, $10,000 a day. Put a [known brand] on it, it’s generating $100,000”
• TGI Fridays potato skins at grocery stores “[leverage] the idea of the restaurant experience at home” https://t.co/7SLvnAk2UR
Good biz dev: product placement, paid or free. @SophieHaigney wrote this smart article that mentions @Hollywood_PR and @BenGroupInc in today’s NYT https://t.co/P4eW6mQ8dR
Good biz dev: Researchers found that felt tip markers can be better than cotton swabs for medical sampling (kudos @mipt_eng; attention @Sharpie, @PaperMate, & @PorexCorp!) https://t.co/qQibE4dTfJ
Good biz dev: Early-days Amazon China logistics leader (now for-hire expert advisor) Long Wong featured in @Marketplace@jpak25 story today, "How Shanghai’s DIY supply chains helped us live through the long COVID lockdown" https://t.co/QtymxaHSjC
Good biz dev: Chegg doubled-down its stock repurchase program by adding another $1B to its $1B previously committed (of which they already spent 90%) https://t.co/5cmO3DEIWY
Good biz dev: Paramount pays Tom Cruise some of Top Gun box office gross revenue, and he helps drive that with his U.S.> Mexico> England> France> Japan in-person promotional tour https://t.co/laOWCWrvFW