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Zack Kanter
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Zack Kanter writes Zack's notes, a personal blog at zackkanter.com about startups, business and economics. Since 2015, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “What Is Amazon?”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Zack Kanter's essay on what Amazon is, covering incentives, flywheels, and how advertising shifts the company's direction. Commenters point to it as a way to understand Amazon's strategy.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
by Zack Kanter, founder & CEO of Stedi.
Most-linked posts?
- What Is Amazon?6 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2019-03-14
- How Uber’s Autonomous Cars Will Destroy 10M Jobs by 20253 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-01-23
- There is no good place to start a startup2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-16
What Hacker News says?
I think this essay is worth reading to answer your question. https://zackkanter.com/2019/03/13/what-is-amazon/ Tl;dr incentives.
Comment linking /2019/03/13/what-is-amazon/
on “Ask HN: What is going wrong at Amazon?”Submitted You are not 'behind' as a story · 471 points
HN discussionThis is a great post about a different perspective on Amazon: https://zackkanter.com/2019/03/13/what-is-amazon/ It also talks about the flywheels and how advertising is taking Amazon down the wrong path.
Comment linking /2019/03/13/what-is-amazon/
on “Is Amazon Unstoppable?”Submitted You Are Not ‘Behind’ (2016) as a story · 245 points
HN discussionI'm more optimistic that the NTSA will rise to meet the challenge because there is so much benefit and momentum (thank you Elon Musk) to making them work. My favorite article on the subject[1] extrapolates how much impact autonomous vehicle technology will have. I'd actually be pretty surprised if it hadn't come across the desks of the GM executives involved in the half a billion dollar Lyft investment[2]. The Obama…
Comment linking /2015/01/23/how-ubers-autonomous-cars-will-destroy-10-million-jobs-by-2025/
on “Why Cities Aren’t Ready for the Driverless Car”Submitted What Is Amazon? as a story · 102 points
HN discussion> Personal opinion --- because their cloud business model is more direct, stable and sustainable --- less subversive. But, unfortunately, becoming more subversive. If you haven't read this, it's a brilliant analysis: https://zackkanter.com/2019/03/13/what-is-amazon/
Comment linking /2019/03/13/what-is-amazon/
on “Google Cloud Alters the Deal”Submitted What Is Amazon? as a story · 50 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Amazon? (2019) as a story · 45 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Uber’s Autonomous Cars Will Reshape the Economy by 2025 as a story · 39 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Uber’s Autonomous Cars Will Destroy 10M Jobs by 2025 as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Uber’s Autonomous Cars Will Destroy 10m Jobs and Reshape the Economy by 2025 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted There is no good place to start a startup as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Amazon? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The most important thing you'll ever learn as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Amazon? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted People Will Spend the Majority of Waking Time in Virtual Reality by 2020 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Amazon? (2019) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Uber’s Autonomous Cars Will Destroy 10M Jobs and Reshape the Economy by 2025 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to name your startup (2013) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Projects, Process, and the Deep Cleanse (2014) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted There is no good place to start a startup as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Amazon? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Projects, Process and the Deep Cleanse (2014) as a story · 1 points
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