Highlights

  • 2023-12-04 17:02 It’s hard to believe I had just spent a year of my life launching a series of adventure games. Computer games based on science fiction novels from people like Arthur C.

  • 2023-12-04 17:03 She said, well, you pay us $50,000 a page, and then we run the ad. And I realized it was a sales call. And then I realized that the Sharper Image catalog wasn’t what I thought it was.

  • 2023-12-04 17:10 And my pitch was to make sure that those ads were ads for books that totally matched the background of the person who was using the Kindle, amazon ended up selling them to the highest bidder. Now, as much as a third of all of Amazon’s revenue comes not from people paying them to buy the stuff they make, but from companies paying them to be advertised, promoted, or otherwise present on the website.