David Rosenthal: uncertainty

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…Was that on good terms? Do you know how he left? Well, it’s interesting especially now that the Jet acquisition has happened. As chronicled in The Everything Store and elsewhere, the negotiations and the tactics that Amazon used in acquiring Diapers were aggressive. Lore was not a fan of Amazon and especially after having worked there. So when he leaves in 2013 which is pretty quickly, we don’t know what the terms of his retention package were but I got to imagine it was longer than sort of two-ish years that he stayed there. He’s kind of got a chip on his shoulder and he wants to gun for Amazon and Bezos kind of with a vengeance. Yeah, and I think he rips on when he was starting Jet or talking about the reasons behind starting Jet, he rips on Amazon’s culture a little bit. He’s talking about among the many ways that he wants to compete with Amazon on Jet being – well, I’ll leave you to tell the business strategy – but he wanted to create a place that’s not such a cutthroat culture.…

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