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November 5, 2013 12:54 am GMT
Amazon was one of the first retail websites to allow negative reviews of the products that they sold to appear right in the listing. This revolutionary practice which has been mimicked earth-wide at this point was one item focused on in Brad Stone’s recent book The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon. The book, which I found very interesting and a great read overall, was released last month and is available on Amazon’s site for purchase. In what can only be seen as a moment of delicious cyclical irony, a new fairly negative review of the book has been posted by none other than Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos’ wife, MacKenzie Bezos. We’ve confirmed the identity of the reviewer, the only peson to leave a one-star reaction so far. MacKenzie’s review is an intriguing read, and features the incredible qualifying disclosure “Jeff and I have been married for 20 years.” In her review, she calls out what she feels are ‘numerous factual inaccuracies’ in the book, including one right off the bat: In the first chapter, the book sets the stage for Bezoss decision to leave his job and build an Internet bookstore. At the time Bezos was thinking about what to do next, he had recently finished the novel Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro, about a butler who wistfully recalls his personal and professional choices during a career in service in wartime Great Britain. So looking back on lifes important junctures was on Bezoss mind when he came up with what he calls the regret-minimization framework to decide the next step to take at this juncture in his career. Its a good beginning, and it weaves in nicely with whats to come. But its not true. Jeff didnt read Remains of the Day until a year after he started Amazon. MacKenzie also takes an exception with the fact that the book, in its effort to delve into the motivations of Bezos, strays from fact and into the realm of ‘characterization’ too often: Bezos felt Bezos believed. Bezos wanted. Bezos fixated Bezos worried. Bezos was frustrated Bezos was consumed In the circuitry of Bezoss brain, something flipped When reading phrases like these, which are used in the book routinely, readers should remember that Jeff was never interviewed for this book, and should also take note of how seldom these guesses about his feelings and
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Jeff Bezos' Wife And Co-Workers Call Out Brad Stone's Amazon Book As InaccurateOn Amazon
Amazon was one of the first retail websites to allow negative reviews of the products that they sold to appear right in the listing. This revolutionary practice which has been mimicked earth-wide at this point was one item focused on in Brad Stone’s recent book The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon. The book, which I found very interesting and a great read overall, was released last month and is available on Amazon’s site for purchase. In what can only be seen as a moment of delicious cyclical irony, a new fairly negative review of the book has been posted by none other than Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos’ wife, MacKenzie Bezos. We’ve confirmed the identity of the reviewer, the only peson to leave a one-star reaction so far. MacKenzie’s review is an intriguing read, and features the incredible qualifying disclosure “Jeff and I have been married for 20 years.” In her review, she calls out what she feels are ‘numerous factual inaccuracies’ in the book, including one right off the bat: In the first chapter, the book sets the stage for Bezoss decision to leave his job and build an Internet bookstore. At the time Bezos was thinking about what to do next, he had recently finished the novel Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro, about a butler who wistfully recalls his personal and professional choices during a career in service in wartime Great Britain. So looking back on lifes important junctures was on Bezoss mind when he came up with what he calls the regret-minimization framework to decide the next step to take at this juncture in his career. Its a good beginning, and it weaves in nicely with whats to come. But its not true. Jeff didnt read Remains of the Day until a year after he started Amazon. MacKenzie also takes an exception with the fact that the book, in its effort to delve into the motivations of Bezos, strays from fact and into the realm of ‘characterization’ too often: Bezos felt Bezos believed. Bezos wanted. Bezos fixated Bezos worried. Bezos was frustrated Bezos was consumed In the circuitry of Bezoss brain, something flipped When reading phrases like these, which are used in the book routinely, readers should remember that Jeff was never interviewed for this book, and should also take note of how seldom these guesses about his feelings andOriginal Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/v1qNDdNfBLA/
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