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Jeff Bezos once got fed-up with an early prototype of Alexa.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos once told an early prototype of his company s virtual assistant Alexa to shoot yourself in the head in frustration, a new book has revealed. Jeff Bezos was testing the device at his Seattle home in 2013 when he lost his temper at its lack of understanding, Brad Stone wrote in his book Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire, which was released on Tuesday. In pique of frustration over its lack of comprehension, he told Alexa to go shoot yourself in the head , Mr Stone wrote in his book, according to the Daily Mail.
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Dr. Robin Gaster is the CEO of Incumetrics and a visiting scholar at George Washington University Institute for Public Policy.
In it, he reveals how Amazon s structure allows for the quick formation of small, agile teams.
The following is a book excerpt.
Amazon is famously organized into small two-pizza (8 -10 person) teams. This directly adds flexibility and agility. Small teams can move quickly.
Amazon s two-pizza teams are agile, developed flexible inter-team structures, offer clarity or purpose, and are fast to innovate. They are also highly autonomous: the Prime Now team was able to launch its pilot on the iPhone first even though Amazon is generally an Android company. When the workload for a team becomes too big, Amazon may decide to break it into multiple smaller teams to keep their agility.
UK crowned Amazon s hottest market as lockdown sales surge
The US tech firm s revenues rocketed by 51pc in Britain last year, as it raked in the equivalent of £290 for every man, woman and child
3 February 2021 • 6:27pm
Amazon s British revenues soared 51pc to $26.4bn (£19.3bn) in 2020 amid a historic Covid online spending spree, with sales growth outstripping all of the retailer’s other major markets.
The spending equates to £290 for every British man, woman and child last year – or to £36,000 a minute – cementing the US firm’s dominance of the retail market.
The sum is more than the sales at John Lewis – including Waitrose – and Marks & Spencer combined in 2019, the latest period for which they have published results. These figures predate the pandemic, and revenues could be significantly lower when the pair report for 2020.
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