The Power of Failing Well · Collab Fund
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Amazon’s Fire Phone was a failure.
The Power of Failing Well Jun 7, 2017 SHARE ↓ by Morgan Housel @morganhousel Copy Link Amazon’s Fire Phone was a failure. It’s the kind of thing most managers hope people soon forget about. But Amazon embraced it. Jeff Bezos said in an interview not long after the phone was pulled: If you think that’s a big failure, we’re working on much bigger failures right now. I am not kidding. Some of them are going to make the Fire Phone look like a tiny little blip. Netflix just announced the cancellation of several expensive original shows. This is also the kind of thing most media CEOs get mad at
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