“They start a company because they know pain, they understand the pain, and they have to start that company,” Kelley says of the qualities that are important in entrepreneurs. “They have such a burning desire to start that company because they know that the opportunity is there in front of them. If we found the right entrepreneur, who came to us and said ‘we are going to go start something that is going to take on AWS’ … If they have the right approach, absolutely.”
“Welcome to Amazon” is a phrase commonly heard on the tech titan’s Seattle campus but typically reserved for new employees and office tours. That could all change if Stonecrest, Ga., gets its way.
“What we’re doing is so deeply integrated,” Bezos said, according to the Wall Street Journal. “It’s only possible because we trust each other.”
“What I can tell you is there was no playbook for this,” he said. “We moved very quickly. Demand went through the roof. It was like having a holiday selling season but in March and we had to make decisions very rapidly.”
“We oppose this approach, because of the message it sends to every business: if you are investing in growth, if you create too many jobs in Seattle, you will be punished,” the letter reads. “Sending this message to entrepreneurs, investors, and job creators will cause far greater damage to Seattle’s growth prospects than the direct impact on the businesses being taxed. Not all of the undersigned are directly impacted by this tax, yet we all agree it is a bad idea.”
“What I loved about Seattle when I came here is I felt like we were all on same team, and that business people cared about government issues and social issues and that government cared about the business issues,” Kelman said. “So I don’t want to make this a one-dimensional conversation about how we elected a socialist from Capitol Hill to the City Council and somehow hurt Amazon’s feelings, and that’s why they are leaving.”
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“We have this generous opportunity … in the space to really do something more significant here, and really think about it more like a park where you have a variety of uses,” said Brands, noting that it would be terraced in order to create an amphitheater like concept. “You could have large-scale events, community events or Amazon events in this space.”
“We’re really poised for a potential breakout,” Tom Simpson, founder of Spokane startup Etailz told GeekWire in a previous interview. He later added, “We’re not Seattle. We’re not San Francisco but there’s a reasonably high-level of [startup] activity going on.”
“We’re looking at it to figure out all the factors that may be adding to it,” he said. “We’re watching it closely and we’ll adjust if necessary.”
“We believe that our new flagship robot, Neato D7, will spur on a new cycle of innovation in both the global and home robotic market,” said Petersen.