Alexa had “no profit timeline,” cost Amazon $25 billion in 4 years - eviltoast
WSJ report highlights vague metrics, internal struggles of Amazon Devices.
  • jarfil@beehaw.org
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    4 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.