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#126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing

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Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Jeff Bezos - What's Your Thoughts on the Amazon Side?

Jeff Bezos had a vision. And he had the ability to just follow it. Lots of people have visions and, you know, the average vision is completely idiotic and you crash and burn. Elon Musk was kind of doing sort of okay, but, but,. but, but he just drove them. The Silicon Valley crash and burn rate is pretty high. They don't necessarily crash and burn because they were dumb ideas. It's just timing and luck. I mean, Amazon operated the negative for a long time. It's like investing into the future.

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