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prpon on April 27, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I, Jeff Bezos, Keep Spending Billions On Amazo...

That letter is so geeky, I doubt if 90% of amazon investors would get the things he was explaining. As a geek though, I love it.

michaelochurch on April 27, 2011 [–]

My feeling about it was that it was written to appeal to top programmers, not investors except so far as "You can read this letter, in which I prove that I know the language one needs to speak to hire smart people".

athst on April 29, 2011 | [–]

Good point - maybe this is just the greatest recruiting tactic ever.

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